Preparing Leave for Single Touch Payroll Phase 2 - Payroll Web

Leave

Any Leave you pay to your employees need to be reported separate from Gross, for STP Phase 2.

You will now need to configure the following new reporting category's against your existing leave pay items. Where you are using other pay item types, such as Earnings or Allowances, these will need to be disabled and new leave pay items created.

  • Paid parental leave
  • Workers’ compensation
  • Ancillary and defence leave

The following additional leave reporting category's have been configured for you as part of the pay run process

  • Cash out of leave in service - when you select the Cash out option against a leave pay item in the pay run process, this will reported to the ATO correctly as cash out of leave
  • Unused leave on termination - any leave that has been paid out in a termination pay run, will be reported under unused leave.
  • Other paid leave - any leave paid in a pay run that does not fall under the above 5 reporting category's will be reported as other pay leave.

Read the ATO guidelines for more information.

Adding the new fields in the STP Phase 2 Ready Checklist

To make the process easier, we display leave pay items that have been assigned to the leave type of Other, that require action. These leave pay items will be displayed at the top of the grid and highlighted with the exclamation mark.

What you need to do
  1. Select Leave from the STP Phase 2 Ready Checklist. The number of leave pay items requiring action will be displayed in the yellow banner
  2. Select the STP PHASE 2 LEAVE SUB-TYPE drop down and select the relevant leave type
  3. Select Save.
To simplify the process

We have provided the same options to each of the pages, as per the employees page to simplify the process.

  1. Displaying how many leave pay items need action
  2. A link to the relevant ATO guidelines page
  3. Quick steps on what you need to do
  4. Show all earnings - toggle between displaying all allowances within your book and those that require action
  5. Filter - you can enter an allowance name and search will begin once you enter the first character
  6. Bulk update - you can select the checkbox against the relevant leave pay items which then enables the Edit Items button. Selecting this opens a draw and allows you to select the option for the selected leave pay items.
  7. Sort - ability to select the column heading to sort the column. This is only available on read only columns

Adding the new fields in the Pay items

The new STP Phase 2 reporting category's are displayed within the pay items drawer when editing a leave pay item with the type set to Other, or creating a new Other leave pay item.

What you need to do
  1. Click Pay items under Settings on the top navigation menu
  2. Select Create pay item and select Leave
  3. Choose Other under Leave type. The new STP Phase 2 leave sub-type field is available with the additional reporting categories. Whilst preparing for STP Phase 2, this field is optional however it will need have a selection prior to switching to report via STP Phase 2.
  4. Complete the remaining fields and select Create

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