Statutory Holiday Assist

Statutory Holiday Assist makes calculating statutory holiday pay easier!

This feature is available for Ontario employers using Powerpay People with Daily Hours enabled. Other jurisdictions will follow in future releases.

When enabled, the Statutory Holidays section displays on the Time Review page.Closed From the Payroll menu, select Regular Payment > Time Review. Time Review page and includes:

  • Notifications of statutory holidays in the pay period

  • The calculation status: Calculation Requiredor Calculation Done

If there are no statutory holidays in the pay period, the following message displays:

No statutory holidays in this pay period.

If you are an Ontario employer with Daily Hours enabled but Statutory Holiday Assist not enabled for your payroll, the following message displays:

Statutory Holiday calculations for Ontario are now available. For more information contact Powerpay support.

When Statutory Holiday Assist is turned on, the Calendar tab.Closed From the People menu, select Calendar. displays even if Time Off Requests is not enabled. In this release, custom holidays such as Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, or the first Monday in August are not included in the statutory holiday pay calculation.

Prerequisites

To calculate statutory holiday pay correctly, Powerpay requires four work weeks of dated hours or earnings from one or more of the following pages:

  • Daily Hours Timesheet

  • Regular Timesheet

  • Manual page

  • Reversal page

  • Time Review page.

If fewer than four weeks of dated data exist, statutory holiday pay will be understated. Due to the four work week requirement for dated data, there is a lag between when Daily Hours is first enabled and when Statutory Holiday Assist can perform accurate calculations.

Tasks

When Powerpay detects a statutory holiday in the current pay period for Ontario it looks back at the previous four work weeks for hours and earnings to determine if there are historical hours and earnings available to calculate the statutory holiday pay. If history exists, Powerpay uses the selected pay codes to include in the calculation as 'regular wages'.

  1. Go to the Time Review page.Closed From the Payroll menu, select Regular Payment > Time Review.

  2. Click Select Eligible Employees.

  3. Select the employees to be included in the calculation for the current statutory holiday.

  4. Click Calculate.

Powerpay automatically inserts and saves the value into the Time Review page.Closed From the Payroll menu, select Regular Payment > Time Review., next to the statutory holiday date, once the value is calculated.

Note: The payroll administrator can modify the value if required.