I have stated time and time again that a payroll system is a tool and is not the actual payroll! The payroll practitioner is the one essential part of payroll that must be present to bring all the required components together to create a successful payroll. It is essential for payroll practitioners to drive the
Month: January 2021
TRANSFERING & DONATING LEAVE ENTITLEMENTS EARNED UNDER THE HOLIDAYS ACT– CAN YOU DO IT?
In this post, I want to talk about whether an employee can transfer leave from one company to another, or from one country to another. And I’ll also consider whether an employee can donate their leave to another employee. This is all regarding minimum entitlement earned under the Holidays Act. So, to start with the
WHAT GIVING TEN DAYS SICK LEAVE MEANS FOR PAYROLL
The government has introduced the Holidays (Increasing Sick Leave) Amendment Bill and has stated it will go through the full select committee process before becoming law later in 2021 (not 1 April 2021). This was one of their election promises. So firstly, this is only a bill and is not yet law. A few things
WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS IN PAYROLL WHEN AN EMPLOYEE GETS ADDITIONAL ANNUAL HOLIDAYS
So, for my first post of 2021, I want to clarify a few points, which from my experience, are not understood or applied correctly in payroll when additional annual holidays are provided by agreement to an employee. When the Holidays Act was first implemented (1 April 2004), it provided three weeks of annual holidays (entitlement)