Back Pay Disaggregation

In the STP2 Back Pay behavior, each portion of the aggregated value will be clearly defined into different disaggregated category.

This change is required to satisfy the STP Phase 2 reporting requirements by ATO.

Backpay function

For example, Kevin gets paid fortnightly at a rate of $50 per hour. He has a Rostered Day Off taken in a closed pay run ending March 26.

Kevin's pay rate has increased by $5 backdated to March 13, the start of the previous period.

As pay run is closed we need to create a Back Pay .

Here we can see the back pay calculation. (Taking special note that only $38.00 of the $44.65 is superable due to Leave Loading amount not being superable for this component.)

Right click exported to the timesheet/ pay packet.

Options dialog shows as below

Once exported each individual component will have it’s own back pay component on the pay packet.

The amount paid and the portion that is superable can be found upon selecting a pay packet component.

Manual Back Pay

Back Pay components can also added to pay packets manually via the Add Component function on the Pay Packet details view.

There is a new Component Category called Back Pay, selecting this allows any back pay component to be selected from the list.

After adding the component needs to be filled.

Manually set the Back Pay amount and Superable Earnings amount. Once saved these fields are hidden and the manual back pay for a single component is complete.

To add multiple Back Pay Components, repeat this process, each time selecting the component which requires back pay.

So now each back pay component will have ‘Back Pay' appended to the name, and ‘BP’ appended to the code. For example ‘Ordinary Pay’ with code ‘100’, becomes ‘Ordinary Pay Back Pay’, with code '100BP’.

You will not see these components in any of the usual places in DataPay as they are not configurable, however they will be present in some reports if they have been included in a back pay

Costing

Back Pay components will have their costs reported with respect to the original component.

For example, Below company has one department, Technology, with two cost centers, Development and Support. In this example the employee is owed $380 of Ordinary Pay.

Employee has an employee level Cost Allocation configured to split Ordinary Pay 50/50 into the two cost centers. Half will go to the home cost center Development, half will go to Support.

Based on the STP2 disaggregated back pay, it is now costed with respect to the costing configuration of the original component, in the example below this means a 50/50 split between Cost Centres. Additionally back pays are now reported in the same category as the original component.