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Employment information collected for “another gender” - Stats NZ expect this category to be used for persons who do not identify as either male or female and has identified themselves as “Gender Diverse” on DataPay.
What do these changes mean for me?
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Once assigned to your company, the report will show up in the 'Reports' section instead of 'Templates'.
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The template report should look like this:
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Step 2: Use the ‘Save As’ option under the Reporting tab to save the template QES report at company level.
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Step 32: Change the ‘Search Type’ to be ‘By Pay Run’. Select a Pay Group and select the Pay Run period that is required.
Once the Template is completed – moving forward you will just need to select the ‘Pay Run’ and Pay Group that you requiring to report on)
Step 43: Determine if your company has allowances that would be classified as a bonus or a commission. If so under the ‘Entities’, click on ‘Attribute Fields’, search for ‘Group A Allowances’. Drag this field into your ‘Design view as a new column after the ‘Total Earnings column.
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Step 54: : Right click on the newly added column ‘Group A Allowances’, go into Properties and Rename the ‘Display Name’ to ‘Bonus & Commissions’. Right click on this column again, select ‘Attribute properties'. Switch to ‘Specified components’ and select the allowances that need to be included in ‘Bonus and Commissions’.
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Step 5: Right click on the row of the new column to add ‘Total’ option for the bonus and commission column
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Step 6: Repeat steps 3 - 6 5 for components classified as 'other allowances' e.g., backpay, redundancy, severance pay, and retirement pay. But rename this to ‘Other Payments. It is quicker if you pull over all the allowances in bulk and then moving back the ones that have already been selected in the Bonus and Commission Column:
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Step 8: Run the report and check it off against the Company Controls Report for that Pay Run to ensure that the figures balance. (Ideally run it for a pay period that has allowances and/or bonus payments) If it does not balance – you will need to investigate to see what components are reporting incorrectly or not picked up. Once report balances – Save the report. The Template process has now been completedif values are displayed are as expected. The Template process has now been completed.
What else I need to know?
Please note that attribute fields are used in most of the columns in the report. To view the components associated with the attribute selection, right-click on the column and select 'Attribute Properties'.
If 'All' is selected, then any component with that particular attribute assigned will appear in the list.
If ‘specific column is chosen’, then the selected components will be displayed in the right-side box.
You now have your own customised version of the QES report which you can run each time you are required to complete a QES.
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