Why Did My Migrated Employee Not Receive Old Leave Grants?

For migrated or imported NZ employees, Lightning Payroll does not re-create every old Annual Holidays or Sick Leave anniversary grant back to the employee's original start date. The setup, import, opening balance, or first completed pay is treated as the point through which earlier entitlement has already been settled.

This prevents the common double-count problem where an opening Annual Holidays balance, such as 4 weeks, is entered and then old anniversary grants are stacked on top of it.

• Enter the opening balance that came from the previous payroll system under Employees >> Leave >> Leave Entitlement Adjustments, using the Add Manual Adjustment action.
• Import earnings history for AWE/OWP and final-pay valuations from the employee import screen using an NZ historic gross earnings CSV. You can then review it under Employees >> Leave >> Historic Pay. Historic pay is not the same as backdated entitlement grants.
• Use Balance Breakdown (in Leave Entitlement Adjustments) to see inserted and pending grants.
• If an old balance is wrong, add another manual adjustment instead of forcing backdated anniversary grants.

Escalate if the employee has already had a final pay, a Holidays Act remediation, or a disputed migration balance. Those cases need a source payroll record review before changing the balance.