• From 1 February 2023, eligible employees are entitled to 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave.
• The leave is available upfront and resets to 10 days on the anniversary of each employee's start date.
• The leave doesn't accumulate and unused leave doesn't carry over.
• Employees not eligible for the 10 days paid leave are entitled to 5 days unpaid family and domestic violence leave. To include this in a pay see Leave without pay.
• For all the rules and eligibility details, visit the Fair Work website.

Create a wage pay item to include the leave in a pay

1. Go to the Payroll menu > Pay items.
2. On the Wages and salary tab, click Create new wage pay item.
3. Enter a name for this wage pay item, such as "Special Leave".

4. For the Name for pay slip, enter "Base Hourly". This is the name that will appear on the employee's pay slip for this pay item and ensures discretion.

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   Be discreet with the name for this pay item – there must be no reference to family and domestic violence leave on an employee's pay slip. Check the pay slip rules on the Fair Work website.

5. For the Type of Wages, select Hourly.
6. For the ATO reporting category, choose Other paid leave.
7. For the Pay basis, select Hourly.
8. For the Pay rate, choose Regular rate multiplied by and leave the rate set to 1.0000
9. Select the option Automatically adjust base hourly or base salary details.
10. Under Employees using this pay item, choose the employees being paid this leave.
11. Click Save to save this wage pay item.

Here's our example:

Create a leave pay item to keep track of the leave balance

1. Go to the Payroll menu > Pay items.
2. Click the Leave tab.
3. Click Create leave pay item.
4. Enter a Name, like "Special Leave" or similar.

5. For the Calculation basis, choose Equals a percentage of wages.

6. Leave the Percentage % set to 0.00.
7. Leave the Percent of set to Gross Hours.

8. Deselect the option Show leave balance on pay slips.

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   As advised on the Fair Work website, there must be no reference to family and domestic violence leave on an employee's pay slip.

9. Deselect the option Carry remaining leave over to next year.
10. Under Link wage pay item, choose the wage pay item you created in the previous task.
11. Under Employees using this pay item, choose the employees being paid this leave.
12. Click Save.

Here's our example:

Record the leave in a pay run

1. Start the pay run as normal (Payroll menu > Create pay run). Need a refresher?
2. Click the employee to open their pay.
3. Enter the hours of family and domestic violence leave being taken. Ignore the warning about paying this leave will result in a negative leave balance.
   
4. Continue pay run as normal

Check how much leave an employee has taken

You can run the Leave balance report to see how much family and domestic violence leave an employee has taken.

1. Go to the Reporting menu > Reports.
2. Click the Payroll tab.
3. Click the Leave balance report.
4. Choose the date range you'd like to report on. For example, you might want the report dated from the employee's work anniversary date (when their entitlement resets to the full 10 days).
5. Click Employees and choose only the employees you want to include in the report, then click Apply.
6. Click Leave and choose only family and domestic violence leave (Special Leave), then click Apply . This example shows an employee has taken 15.2 hours (2 days) of leave.
   

<h2><i class="fa fa-comments"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;FAQs</h2><br>

Do I need to reset the leave balance at the employee's work anniversary?

Unlike some other types of leave, family and domestic violence leave doesn't accrue. And because of the way it's set up and tracked in MYOB, there's no need to reset the leave balance on the employee's work anniversary (when their 10 day leave entitlement renews).

But you can easily keep track of how much leave an employee has used by running the Leave balance report (see above). Just date the report from the employee's work anniversary date to see how many of their 10 day entitlement they've used. 

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