Create Parental Bereavement Leave Absence Plans

To determine employee’s entitlement to Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay, you must create an absence plan that stores the criteria for processing these absences.

Perform the following steps to create parental bereavement absence plans:

1. In the My Client Groups work area, select Absences > Absence Definitions > Absence Plans.
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 'Qualification' as the Plan Type.
4. Click Continue.
5. In the Plan Attributes tab, enter the required details for the absence plan such as the plan name, Legislative Data Group, and Term Duration. Enter the other field values as shown below:

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

6. Click the Participation tab to continue paying SMP after employee termination. Update the Entitlement End rule to 'After Termination'.
7. Click the Entitlements tab and enter the field values as shown below:

   FIELD	VALUE
   Disable payment percentage override	Selected
   Entitlement Start Date	Absence start date

8. Click the Entries and Balances tab, and enter the field values as shown below:

   FIELD	VALUE
   Absence Payment Rate Rule	Rate definition
   Rate Name	Select the placeholder rate definition created earlier for the absence plan
   Transfer absence payment information for payroll processing	Selected
   Element	Select the element created earlier for the plan.

9. Click Save and Close.