When employment ends before an employee has worked the total number of years needed to get the full long service leave entitlement, they can sometimes get paid out part of their long service leave. This is known as pro-rata long service leave. Whether or not you're required to pay pro-rata long service leave How do I pay pro-rata long service leave?When an employee leaves before they are eligible to take their accrued long service leave, they might be entitled to a pro-rata payment. Whether or not the employee is eligible to receive this payment, and how that payment is calculated, depends on the regulations in your state or territory. Check the Fairwork website for more information. To pay pro-rata long service leave: - Set up the wage and entitlement categories wage category as described above.
- Enter the pro-rata hours against the long service leave hours the employee is entitled to be paid against the Long Service Leave wage category on the employee's final pay.
Also see Processing a final pay. |