Good day Liezl

The transaction code 5016 by design is meant to be loaded on the income tab of the payslip to report the hours for the sick leave days taken. This cannot be changed for hourly paid employee and the hours on 5002 can be adjusted according.

Secondly, the average hour per day is 8 hours because leave can't be looked at as hours but a day. When sick leave is processed with 5016 populated on the income tab , e.g. 5002 will need to be adjusted less the 8 hour on 5016.

We will send a suggestion if the paid sick leave  transaction code 5016 can be an option to be added or not , on the payslip. The solution is to adjust the hours on transaction code 5002, so the 40 - the 8 hour recorded on 5016. 

Please could you kindly verify or reply and let us know that this solution worked. That would be awesome.

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Siphiwe

I hear what you are saying, but I still don't know why this has been done and why it isn't an option. I have a client who is importing their hours from the clocking system into Payroll and this includes the sick days. Everything is being done to make their life easier and the processing of the payslips simpler. But now they have to go through each payslip that had sick leave and adjust the normal working hours. They don't want this. This is making more work for them.

Their leave is also setup to accru per hour. So if the sick leave takes it as 8 hours per day this doesn't work for them as some days they only work 6 hours. The sick leave needs to calculate the days or hours based on what is setup on the employee's masterfile and not what the average number of hours in a working day is. Otherwise what is the point of having that option on the employee masterfile.

I have experienced a similar issue when processing Sick Leave for weekly wage earners.
The workaround I have found is to book the sick leave under the leave tab as you have above, but then simply override 5016 to display 0.  That way the wage is still shown as per the actual hours paid, but the sick leave record is maintained.
 

Liezl said:

The third issue I have, is that Payroll doesn't allow me to override the quantity on transaction 5016. I tick the override button, change the hours from 8 to 6 but as soon as I go to a new line it automatically goes back to 8 hours.

To get around this, I click on override, zero out the actual amount earned under this code and click Save. Then I zero out the hours and click save again. This seems to work in ensuring both hours and amount for code 5016 is saved as zero

Hope this helps