Enter a unique 10-character alphanumeric code to identify a leave code. These codes identify leave types, such as vacation, sick, personal time.

Enter a description for this leave code, which will be used on forms and reports.

For Canadian users

If you want the descriptions on the pay stubs to appear in French and English, make sure that this field includes both French and English.

You should not create separate leave codes for French and English. Instead, create a bilingual description for the codes you want to use on the bilingual stubs.

Enter a valid unit of measure (HQ Units of Measure) used to track accumulated units for this leave code. This field will typically be hours.

Leave Balance Warning Level field on PR Leave Codes form

By setting alert options, you can identify and prevent employee timecard and leave usage issues that may occur if an employee exceeds a given available leave balance. This option determines how the system processes a leave entry batch. You can override this setting at the employee level by using the Leave Balance Warning Level field on the PR Employee Leave form.

Choose from one of the following alert options:

• Allowed w/Warning - If you select this option and the employee has a negative leave balance, with no other errors during batch validation, the system displays an error message on the HQ Batch Control Error List report, but you can then post the batch.

  Important:

  • These warnings are only accurate if you run PR Auto Leave Accrual/Usage after every payroll; if this is not part of your normal payroll workflow, we recommend leaving this field at its default setting of Allowed w/o Warning.

• Allowed w/o Warning - If you select this option and the employee has a negative leave balance, with no other errors during batch validation, the system does not display an error message on the HQ Batch Control Error List report and you can then post the batch.

• Not Allowed - If you select this option and the employee has a negative leave balance, the system displays an error message on the HQ Batch Control Error List report and then you will be unable to post the batch.

Indicate how accruals are calculated for this leave code.

Fixed Amount - Select this option if accruals are calculated for this leave code on a fixed basis, using the Fixed Accrual Units and Accrual Frequency specified below. Using this option means all employees with this leave code will accrue a fixed amount (typically hours) when the PR Auto Leave Accrual/Usage form is run. An example might be hours of vacation accrued annually. When the Auto Leave Accrual/Usage form is run for the “Annual” frequency, each employee assigned this leave code would have a leave detail entry created for the fixed amount of hours which will update their Accrual Limits #1, #2, and Available Balance (up to their limits).

Rate of Earnings or Hours – Select this option if accruals are calculated for this leave code on a rate of earnings or hours, using the Earn Codes, Basis, and Rates specified in the grid below. Only Earn codes identified as “Accrual” Types will be used.

Enter the number of units that will be accrued for this leave code on a regular basis. For example, if an employee is to accrue 8.00 hours each month, enter 8.00 here. This field is disabled if the accrual type is rate based.

Enter a valid frequency code to indicate how often the accrual units are calculated (e.g. hourly, daily, monthly, or yearly). This field is disabled if the Accrual Type is rate based.

These accrual limits allow you to track accruals for two different time frames, such as monthly and yearly.

For each accrual limit, enter the maximum number of units that can be accumulated during the time frame specified in the Reset Frequency field.

For each accrual limit, enter the frequency code that indicates how often the accumulated units should be reset to 0.00. Press F4 for a list of valid frequency codes

For example, if you are tracking monthly and yearly accruals, set the reset frequency to “Month” for accrual limit #1, and to “Year” for accrual limit #2.

Enter the maximum number of units allowed for this leave code at any one time. Enter 0.00 if there is no limit.

Enter a valid frequency code to indicate how often the available balance should be reset. Leave this field blank if no reset is to occur.

Enter the maximum number of units that can be carried over when the available balance is reset. For example, if a maximum of 40 hours of vacation can be carried over annually, then set the Carryover Limit to 40. When the annual reset is run, employees having more than 40 hours of vacation available will have their balance reduced to 40. Those with less than 40 hours will be unchanged. Set to 0.00 if no carryover is allowed.

The Active checkbox on the PR Leave Codes form, Info tab.

This checkbox is automatically selected when adding a new leave code.

You can deselect this checkbox if you are not ready to activate the leave code; however, you must activate the leave code before you can assign it to employees in PR Employee Leave.

If this is an existing code, you can deselect this checkbox to deactivate the leave code. If there are active employees associated the leave code (in PR Employee Leave), a message displays alerting you to the number of active employees and prompting you to deactivate the employee leave codes. If you select OK, the system deactivates the leave code for all applicable employees.

Enter a valid earnings code that will be used as a basis to calculate accruals on rate-based leave codes or to track leave code usage.

Specify whether the earnings code is an (A)ccrual or (U)sage type. For instance, regular earnings might be set up as an accrual type with a rate of .1 hours earned for one basis hour worked. A vacation earnings code might then be set up as a usage type with a rate of 1.0 hour’s usage for each 1.0 hour posted.

Enter the basis for usage or accrual calculations.

• A-Amount – Calculations will be based on the earnings amount.

• H-Hours – Calculations will be based on hours.

Enter the rate at which to calculate accrual or usage. Typically, the rate for usage will be 1.00.

Earn Code field in the PR Leave Codes form, Leave Level Overrides tab

Enter an Earnings Code that you want to assign a different leave rate to. Press F4 to select from a list.

In conjunction with your entry in the Leave Level field, and when the Leave Level code is inserted at the job/project level (PR Info tab on either PM Projects or JC Jobs form), that job/project can refer to the value you enter in the Rate field.

Leave Level field in the PR Leave Codes form, Leave Level Overrides tab

Enter the Leave Level code that you want to associate to this earnings code. Press F4 to select from a list.

In conjunction with your entry in the Earn Code field, and when this Leave Level code is inserted at the job/project level (PR Info tab on either PM Projects or JC Jobs form), that job/project can refer to the value you enter in the Rate field.

Basis field in the PR Leave Codes form, Leave Level Overrides tab

Enter the basis for accrual calculations.

Rate field in the PR Leave Codes form, Leave Level Overrides tab

Enter the rate the system should use to calculate leave accrual for this Leave Level code.