From 1 April 2019, employees affected by domestic violence can request paid domestic violence leave (DVL). It works in a similar way to sick leave, but to learn all the ins and outs visit the Employment New Zealand website. To process DVL payments in MYOB Payroll you'll need to create a new Pay Code. Here are the details: | UI Expand |
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| title | 1. Create a new Pay Code |
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| - Go to the Maintenance command centre and click Maintain pay codes.
- Click New.
- Set up the Pay Code:
- For the Pay Code Type, select Gross Earnings.
- For the Pay Code, enter DVL (for example).
- For the Pay Code Description, enter Special Leave (for example).
 - Click OK.
- With the new DVL pay code selected, select the option Allow rate to be modified when entering pay details.
 - Click Close.
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| title | 2. Processing Process a DVL payment |
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| - When processing the employee's pay, click Add default from right hand menu.
- Select the DVL pay code then click OK.
- Leave the Default Quantity and Default Rate as 0.00.
 - Click OK.
- Relevant daily pay: If the employee works regular hours, enter the days they would have worked (in hours) against the DVL pay code, and their normal rate in the Rate field.
 Average daily pay: If it's not practical to determine how much they would have earned had they worked: Click Leave then click RDP Calculation. Take a note of the daily amount under Use Average Daily Pay based on 52 weeks Gross Earnings.
 - Click OK.
- Back in the pay, enter 1 in the Quantity field against the DVL pay code and enter the daily rate noted previously as the Rate.
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| You can report on DVL taken using the Pay Code Analysis Report under Reports > Period reports. Entitlements would have to be tracked manually. To help with this, use the Notes tab in in the employee's details. |
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