IRIS holiday pay module options

Changes made on the Holiday Set-Up screen will only affect new employees that you create after making these changes. To update existing employees, you will need to use Global Changes or on the individual employees record.

Holiday pay module default allowances

Go to Holiday Set-Up > Default Allowance.

This is where you ‘switch on’ the module , and where you input your default holiday rates and allowances for the company.

You need to complete the following fields:

Holiday Type

Can be Hours, Days, Weeks, Months or Accrual.

If set to Accrual, the other Default Settings will not be available. The module is not compatible with holiday Accrual.

Default Enhanced Holiday Allowance

The amount of Holiday Hours, Days, Weeks, Months each employee gets by default to cater for overtime/commission payments.

Default Contractual Holiday Allowance

The amount of Holiday Hours, Days, Weeks, Months each employee gets by default as part of their contract of employment.

Default Contractual Holiday Rate
The amount of Holiday Pay per Hour, Day, Week, Month each employee gets by default as part of their contract of employment.

Holiday pay module calculation

Go to Holiday Set-Up > Holiday Calculation.

Use these options when establishing which weeks to use when calculating the Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) for each employee.

Tick the box for each option you wish to apply, to either Weekly or Monthly paid employees, or both:

Exclude zero paid periods
If ticked, the system ignores any pay periods where net pay is equal to zero.

Exclude periods with Holiday Pay
If ticked, the system will ignore any pay periods in which Holiday Pay was paid.

Exclude periods with Statutory Payments
if ticked, the system will ignore any pay periods in which any or a combination of SSP, SMP, SAP, SPP or ShPP were paid.

12 monthly pay periods equates to <number> weeks
use this to specify how many of your pay weeks are contained within twelve calendar months.

You also need to configure earnings.