Suppressing Employee Payments

Payment Suppression refers to the suppression of components with positive payment amounts in the event that there is no Ordinary Pay in the current Pay Packet. LWOP and other types of Ordinary Hours which are not paid are not included in this calculation.
This feature is mainly used to ensure that employees are not paid recurring work related allowances for periods in which they did not work.

For example if an employee receives a Car Allowance payment of a fixed amount each week, yet is on LWOP for the entire Pay Period, then you may wish to suppress this allowance so that this is not paid while the employee is not working. In this example the employee would still receive the allowance while on Annual Leave for the entire period, as this is considered Ordinary Pay.

Component Setup

The first thing to check is the individual Component Setup – specifically for an Attribute called "Never Suppress Allowance". You can check the attributes of a component by right clicking on the component in the Component Setup screen and selecting Properties. If this is Attribute is enabled then the Allowance will not be able to be suppressed via the "Suppress Payments" option on the Employee Details page.

You will also not be able to manually suppress payment of the Allowance by changing the Value in the Component Setup Screen. If the "Never Suppress Allowance" attribute is selected, you will notice that the name of the suppress field in the Component has changed from "Suppress if no Normal Payment" which has Yes or No options, to "Suppress Payment" which only has a No option.

Employee Details – Suppress Payments

Enabling this setting for an employee will result in the suppression of all Allowances which have this ability (e.g. are not excluded from this feature by the "Never Suppress Allowance" attribute.)
Any component which is viable will have the field for the Value of "Suppress if no Normal Payment" set to Yes. As a result, payment of the Allowance will be suppressed if there is no Ordinary Pay in the Pay Packet.

The default setting for this option when an Employee is created is No.