Types of Employee Leave
The New Zealand Holiday Act specifies two different calculations for employee leave. One calculation method is used to calculate annual holiday leave rates. The other method is used to calculate sick, holiday, and bereavement leave.
You define the types of leave that are available to the employees by entering Benefit/Accrual Type codes in UDC table 75/LT. The system uses the value in the Description 02 column of this UDC table to determine which method to use to calculate employee leave pay. For example, if the organization uses pay type 815 to pay employees for annual leave, pay type 817 to pay employees for sick leave, and 818 to pay employees for holiday leave, you set up this information in UDC table 75/LT:
Code |
Description01 |
Description02 |
|---|---|---|
00815 |
Annual Leave |
ANN |
00817 |
Sick |
OTH |
00818 |
Public Holiday |
OTH |
Because the NZHA also requires that employers report different types of leave separately, you must set up leave type codes in UDC table 06/SV. When you set up leave accrual DBAs, you enter the type of employee leave that the accrual is used to calculate.
To ensure that reporting requirements are met, verify that these codes exist in UDC table 06/SV:
Code |
Description |
|---|---|
V |
Vacation Accruals |
S |
Sick Accruals |
H |
Holiday Accruals |
O |
Other Accruals |
T |
Alternative Holiday |
N |
Long Service - New Zealand |
I |
In Lieu Holiday |