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AU Payroll - Ability to apply work patterns to part time employees

Suggest the ability to apply work patterns to part time employees. For example, we have a part time employee who works 7 hours on Mon, 6 hours on Tues and 6 hours on Wed.
At the moment, if a Public Holiday falls on a Monday, it does not correctly work out hours worked.
The same happens if Annual Leave is taken; incorrect hours are calculated which affects AL accruals.
Hours worked have to be calculated and added manually.

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In development  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded  · 

Hi everyone, thanks for your continued feedback about managing working patterns for part-time employees.

We’re pleased to share that we plan to begin rolling out working patterns in AU Payroll later this year.

The first release will allow you to set a one-week work pattern for each employee. This pattern will automatically be used for leave and public holiday calculations in the pay run. At this stage, you’ll still need to update the employee’s pay template separately to reflect their standard working hours.

We plan to build on this foundation by connecting working patterns with standard hours in the pay run and supporting a broader range of working patterns. We’ll share more details as the first release gets closer.

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  • Geoff Bourchier commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is now available in NZ under the Employment Information Tab for Employees. There is now an option to add pay and work patterns.

    I am not sure about Australia, but it would pay to check as the change was not widely promoted, and I found it by accident.

  • Nancy Ibrahim commented  ·   ·  Report

    very important to select specific days for part time employees who works certain days in the week, which fall on public holiday.
    As currently if (for example) the employee works on Tuesday & Wednesday and a public holiday fall in that week on Monday, the system automatically add the public holiday rate and payment, however he doesn't work on Monday! so I've to adjust it manually.

  • Kelly Walker commented  ·   ·  Report

    Would also be helpful for FT employees, particularly trades that work longer hours x4 and a shorter day at EOW.

  • Jackie Chalwell commented  ·   ·  Report

    this will be so timesaving if we can have this feature in Australia please

  • Sheila Quarta commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree. When staff apply for leave and during public holiday, we have to constantly do a manual split of hours between ordinary, Pub Hol and leave and this allows for mistakes.

  • Anne McPhee commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree. Every time there is a public holiday we have to go in an manually adjust the payslips of everyone who does not work a standard week. The Christmas / New Year period was a nightmare

  • Lubi Thomas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Definitely need this feature ASAP!
    We have multiple part-time employees working different days, and manually going through and correcting Public Holidays and Leave is very time-consuming. We need the same work pattern set up in Australian Xero!

  • Alix Anderson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Definitely need this feature ASAP!
    We have multiple part time employees working different hours/ days and having to manually go through and correct Public Holidays and Leave is very time consuming. We need the same work pattern setup in Australian Xero!

  • Lubi Thomas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Critical feature for our Part time employees. the lack of this option is causing a lot of back of house labour to ensure everything is correct, including when PH land on days other than Monday's and leave management etc. Please get this on line ASAP.

  • Andrew Cameron commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature would be so handy for our part time employees for the reasons already mentioned.

  • Nancy Ibrahim commented  ·   ·  Report

    this feature should be added for part time employees, XERO Australia.

  • Cathy Wicks commented  ·   ·  Report

    Very Disappointing this feature is not available in Australia

  • Emma Petrig commented  ·   ·  Report

    Xero needs to keep up with the various payroll obligations employees face.

  • Giovanna D'Rozario commented  ·   ·  Report

    Can't believe this option is available overseas but not here!

    This is a business critical feature we need otherwise we will need to go with another payroll solution

  • Warrick Dunn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Should be a basic feature of all accounting software. Its actually such a but pain every single payroll!

  • Karyn Muscat commented  ·   ·  Report

    I actually can't believe that this isn't an option. I thought I must have been doing something wrong as I thought this would be just a basic function. Xero really needs to get this implemented...

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