Overview of Qualifying and Reckonable Absences

Qualifying and Reckonable Absences: Use of Legislative Grouping Codes

See: Qualifying and Reckonable Absences: Use of Legislative Grouping Codes in the Appendix for more information.

The rate of payment determines start codes for these types of absence:

• Maternity (full pay, statutory pay, unpaid)
• Paternity (full pay, statutory pay, unpaid)
• Adoption (full pay, statutory pay, unpaid)
• Shared Parental Leave (full pay, statutory pay, unpaid)
• Sickness (half pay, unpaid)

A change in the rate of payment passed to payroll – for example, maternity pay decreasing from full to statutory pay – will trigger a new service history record. You must therefore ensure your absence plans are set up correctly.

Note: An absence record must be approved in order to be reported correctly in the Service History file. If an absence record has changes that are pending approval, that absence will not be reported, and in certain cases, could even cause a deletion file to be generated.