Updating the leave opening balance date and values in the employee profile is often overlooked when adding take-on employees.

Leave is calculated based on days and not on a monthly period. Legislation affords employee leave based on days worked and not calendar months. Other software uses the average days per month (365 ÷ 12) and this has resulted in the employer or employee being short-changed consistently. The variance from one month to the next is minimal, but it makes sense if you follow the for every number of days worked rule as determined by law. This can be overridden with the monthly override field in leave types under settings and if this has a value, the employee override default allowance will also be considered monthly rather than cycle length.

To automatically add remuneration for leave on termination may cause some employers to be out of pocket because not all leave should always be paid out as annual leave expires after 18 months according to South African labour law and some employers, although they would allow the employee to still take it after 18 months, do not pay it out on termination. Thus, we allow editing of payslips after termination but before requesting the EMP201 report.