Create Absence Plans for Shared Parental Leave and Pay

An absence plan needs to be created to determine and calculate a person’s entitlement to shared parental leaves and pay.

You need to create two absence plans for Shared Parental Leave (ShPL) absence plans:

• ShPL for childbirth
• ShPL for adoption

Perform the following steps to create the absence plan for ShPL:

1. In the My Client Groups work area, select Absences > Absence Definitions > Absence Plan.
2. In the Absence Plans page click Create.
3. In the Create Absence Plan window, enter the effective date, 'United Kingdom' as the Legislation and 'Agreement' as the Plan Type.
4. In the Plan Attributes tab, enter the required details for the absence plan such as the plan name, Legislative Data Group, and others. Enter the other field values as shown below:

   FIELD	VALUE
   Status	Active
   Plan UOM	Calendar Days
   Enable concurrent entitlement	Selected
   Legislative Grouping Code	UK Statutory Shared Parental Leave

5. In the Entitlements tab, click Add to add two bands: Band1Pay and Band2Pay. For Band1Pay set to '100 payment percentage', for Band2Pay set '0 payment Percentage'. Then, select the Disable payment percentage override checkbox.
6. In the Entries and Balances tab, enter the field values as shown below:

   FIELD	VALUE
   Absence Payment Rate Rule	Rate Definition
   Rate Name	Select the placeholder rate definition created earlier
   Transfer absence payment information for payroll processing	Selected
   Element	Select the element that you created earlier for the plan. Note: Link each plan to a separate element.

7. Click Save and Close.