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Since the legal requirement that paid leave cannot be consolidated and must be taken as days off, AvaPA has supported automatic calculation and incorporation in pay output. To do this there are a number of setting which determine the actual amounts of paid leave generated. 

• The start date of the calculation: there are two opportunities to enter this date, when dates differ: the calculations will be made in date order, with shifts up to the later date being calculated at the settings for the earlier date and shifts before the earlier date being ignored. This allows unclaimed leave to be dropped off at the (earliest of the two) financial year boundary. Alternately shifts may be dropped off on a rolling year basis by selecting the option “disregard paid leave older than”.
• The rate at which leave is accumulated – this is expressed as a percentage of the hours worked. This can be set across the board or overridden by each pay scale, allowing the specifications of individual customer contracts to be met and varied on a customer by customer basis.
• The legal requirement is that an employee needs to accumulate a (minimum of a) half day before being entitled to claim the half day. Local agreements may vary; this check can be disabled by selecting the “do not enforce a minimum half day leave” check. If an employee is a leaver, then the minimum half day check is automatically overridden.

These setting are configured by database supervisors on the “menu | setup | file locations and defaults” then click on the paid leave tab