Enables you to maintain attendance factors for different lengths of service. Attendance factors allow you to specify payment related details for different factor days (Monday to Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays). Once you have defined the attendance factors, you should create attendance parameter sets to determine the attendance rules used to process attendance records.

Selection

Attendance Factor

Enter the ID of the attendance factor that you want to amend, or select one by clicking window to display Attendance Factor Selection.

If the attendance factor does not exist, a prompt is displayed allowing you to create the new factor.

General

Short Description, Long Description

Enter a short and long description to describe the attendance factor.

Lieu Abs Type

Enter the absence type you want to link to this attendance factor or select one from the drop-down list. When the attendance is processed, the absence type is utilised provided the associated absence parameter is for a RECORD, LIEU or FLEXI entitlement type.

Allow Cash Input

Select this check box if you want to create attendance factors for use with cash value categories. Any cash amounts already entered are removed when this check box is selected as they are not used for cash values; instead, you should specify the minimum and maximum warning and error limits for the cash values in Attendance Factor Cash Settings (accessed from the Additional Cash Fields field).

Do not Pay up to CH

Select this check box to specify that the attendance factor will not pay employees who have worked fewer hours than their contract hours. A SYSADJ attendance type record will be generated containing an adjustment amount of hours based on the difference between hours worked and contract hours. Hours worked over the contract hours will be paid as conventional attendances.

PE to Deduct Hours not Worked

Enter a pay element ID, or click window to select a pay element, to be used to deduct pay for any SYSADJ records generated from an employee working fewer than their contract hours. The pay element must be a rated deduction type pay element. If no pay element is defined, no deduction will be made.

Paging Area

Serv

Enter the number of service periods for which you are defining attendance factor details. This is used in conjunction with the following field, that is, if you enter 2 in this field and M in the Type field, the attendance factor details are applicable after 2 months.

Type

Enter W or M to indicate whether the service period type is weekly or monthly.

Factor Days(s)

Display only. Indicates the factor days for which you are defining factor details. This can be Monday to Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Public Holidays.

Note: The following fields, excluding O/T Threshold and Additional Cash Fields, are repeated for each set of factor days to enable you to define separate details per set.

Lieu Rate

Enter the lieu rate as a multiple of time worked for the length of service and factor days combination. For example, if the employee receives time off in lieu equal to the hours worked, enter 1.

Normal P.E.

Enter the ID of the R type pay element that is used to pay the normal rate, or select one by clicking window to display Pay Element Selection.

High P.E.

Enter the ID of the R type pay element that is used to pay the higher rate, or select one by clicking window to display Pay Element Selection.

Cash

This field is not enabled if the Allow Cash Input check box is selected. Enter the cash amount that is applicable to the length of service and factor days combination.

Cash P.E.

Enter the ID of the N type pay element that is used to pay the cash amount or cash value, or select one by clicking window to display Pay Element Selection.

O/T Threshold

Enter the weekly overtime threshold in hours that is applicable to the given length of service. Once the overtime threshold has been reached, additional hours are paid at the higher rate.

Additional Cash Fields

Click window to display Attendance Factor Cash Settings, where you can specify minimum and maximum warning and error limits for cash values for one or more sets of factor days.

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