Answer
Lightning Payroll gives you several tools for working with statutory leave: entering leave taken on the pay, recording alternative holidays earned, and seeing how anniversary grants are added.
Entering Leave Taken
When you add a leave row on a pay, the Leave Taken screen shows the units that apply to that leave type, such as weeks, days, or hours. Lightning Payroll also shows valuation information so you can see how the leave pay was worked out. The unit you choose controls which native-unit balance is reduced.
Recording An Alternative Holiday Earned
An alternative holiday that an employee earns (for example, for working a public holiday that was otherwise a working day) is recorded as a manual adjustment, not from the pay screen. Open Employees >> Leave >> Leave Entitlement Adjustments, select Add Manual Adjustment, choose Alternative Holiday, and enter the days earned as a positive quantity. When the employee later takes the alternative holiday, enter it as a Leave Taken row on the pay, which deducts the day from the balance.
Anniversary Grants
Annual holiday and sick leave grants are added automatically when you complete a pay on or after the relevant anniversary. You do not add them by hand. The grant schedule in Balance Breakdown shows whether each grant is still pending or has been inserted.
Practical Tip
Set the employee's work pattern, ordinary hours per week, and hours per working day correctly first, because those values are used when converting and valuing leave quantities. See Employees >> Leave >> Leave Settings.
