Eligible Termination Pay (ETP) Overview

1.   ETP cannot be run in the same batch as a normal pay or any other pay for the employee receiving the ETP

2.   Only one type of ETP can be run for each employee in a batch

3.   Create the Batch including only Terminated Employees at this stage they have not been marked in Employee Properties as terminated.

4.   Tax on the timesheet MUST be manually adjusted on the Details tab to that calculated using ATO calculators.

5.   The Payroll Officer should mark the employees as ‘Terminated’ by entering the Termination Date on the on the Conditions of Employment tab prior to finalising the batch to create the STP file. This will ensure that a Termination Date is entered into The Single Touch Payroll file for when lodging the file.

6.   If the Employees are terminated in the employee properties after the batch is finalised then the user will need to recreate the file from Historical pay slips and relodge the file.

7.   STP file must be lodged for each batch.