Record statutory paternity or shared parental leave

You can record statutory maternity, paternity or shared parental leave A scheme that allows parents to share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay after their baby is born or adopted. for any employee in the system.

Looking for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP Statutory Maternity Pay is the pay an employer must give to female employees on maternity leave, for up to 39 weeks.) or Occupational Maternity Pay (OMP) ?

  1. Select the Add Leave to record new leave.

    employee leave screen with Add Leave button highlighted

  2. Select Paternity Leave or Shared Parental for Type.

  3. Select Statutory Pay for Payment.

  4. Enter the dates for the leave.

  5. If necessary, select add an existing payment made and enter any amount you have paid to the employee.

  6. Enter the Baby's Due Date.

  7. The Average Weekly Earnings is pre-populated. Select Calculate Automatically to have the system populate for you.

  8. Enter they Baby's Birth Date.

  9. Select Top-up pay to usual amount if you plan to supplement the amount up to the employees full pay.

  10. Select Use Assumed Pensionable Pay Assumed Pensionable Pay is a notional pensionable pay figure that is used to ensure that your pension is not affected if your pensionable pay reduces when you are away from work. It protects you if you are absent because of sickness, injury, or relevant child-related leave etc. Use of assumed pensionable pay would need to be indicated by the relevant pension provider, as it is not always used., if this applies.

  11. Choose Manual Description if you want to give more details about the payment. Otherwise, choose Describe automatically.

  12. If required, select Payment Requires Processing.

    This is only applicable to historic entries.

  13. Add any additional details in Notes.

  14. Add any relevant files in the Documents section.

  15. Select Create to finish.