Enabling Long Service Leave (calculated)

If the Leave Type ‘Long Service Leave (calculated)’ does not already exist in your account, you can enable it by navigating to Payroll > Payroll Settings > Leave Types and clicking ‘New: Try Out Improved Long Service Leave’.

This will create the leave type and allow you to use the Long Service Leave tab on employee profiles.

Requirements for Tanda to calculate a Long Service Leave balance

Important: If you have already turned off the Long Service Leave (calculated) leave type by ticking the ‘Do not add this leave rule to employee payslips’, you will need to untick this if you want to have entitlements added to payslips.

For Tanda to calculate an accurate balance, all appropriate information should be entered into the Long Service Leave tab on an employee's profile. If at some point, the employee has worked outside of Tanda, the calculation likely is not correct and will require manual input to amend it.

We require:

For Weeks-based States (NSW, VIC, SA):

• Any LSL taken outside of Tanda (we only automatically count leave requests for the leave type ‘LSL (calculated)’.
• Has the employee been classified as Full Time for their full tenure, have they had varied hours?
• Any Non-Continuous days of service outside of Tanda
• Timesheets to calculate average pay rates, a Salary, or a manually entered average pay rate.

For Hours-based States (QLD, WA):

• Total Ordinary Hours worked outside of Tanda (only necessary if the employee has had varied hours).
• Takable LSL balance the employee would have received outside of Tanda Payroll (the available/current balance). Only necessary if the employee has already reached their entitlement.
• Any LSL taken outside of Tanda (we only automatically count leave requests for the leave type ‘LSL (calculated)’.
• Has the employee been classified as Full Time for their full tenure, have they had varied hours?