Pay Australia > WorkCover payments after termination (v12.17)

Description

A new field has been added to the Payroll Australia > Payee > Payee Entry screen to allow payroll officers to flag a payee as being subject to WorkCover payments after termination.

Where the Payee has been terminated, for example, either an employment end date has been set through a formal termination in a pay batch or by manually selecting an employment end date directly on the Payee record, a new editable checkbox field labelled WorkCover Payments After Termination will now display in the Payee record (shown in the example below).

Normally, unless an adjustment pay batch is processed for a prior, closed period, a payee who has had their employment terminated will not be available for inclusion in a pay batch if the payee’s employment termination date falls before the pay period start date of the pay batch. However, if the WorkCover Payments After Termination option is applied to a payee, the payee can be included in a pay batch and can be paid manual pay items in a pay batch for periods after their employment termination date.

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To assist finding payees with this setting, a new search option WorkCover Payments After Termination has been added to the Payroll Details tab in the Search Payee screen (shown below). This item is defaulted to ‘Any', with options for ‘Yes’ to find Payees with WorkCover Payments After Termination ticked, or ‘No’ to find all Payees without this option ticked.

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Benefits

This enhancement provides the ability to identify and pay payees who are receiving WorkCover payments from an insurer through payroll after their employment has been terminated.

Configuration

To deem a Payee as requiring WorkCover Payments After Termination, find the Payee via the ‘Terminated Payees’ criterion in Payroll Australia > Search Payee.

In edit mode tick the setting in the header ‘WorkCover Payments After Termination’. The Payee will then be available to pay via the normal pay batch process.