What Leave Settings Should I Use For A Casual Or Irregular Employee?

Do not assume a casual employee should automatically receive pay-as-you-go holiday pay. First decide whether the employee truly works so irregularly or intermittently that four weeks of annual holidays cannot be provided in the normal way.

• If the casual employee works regularly and continuously, use the normal annual holidays model.
• If the employee has no guaranteed hours and genuinely qualifies for pay-as-you-go holiday pay, turn on Pay annual holidays as you go and check the 8% holiday pay percentage.
• If the work pattern varies, leave Manually set work pattern off unless the employer can identify a reliable otherwise-working-day pattern.

Casual employees can still qualify for sick, bereavement, and family violence leave after meeting the statutory work tests. Review the sick qualifying period and do not remove those settings just because the employee is casual.