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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Example: Create Shadow Earnings for Statutory Holiday Pay (UK)

Example: Create Shadow Earnings for Statutory Holiday Pay (UK)

This example illustrates one way to create shadow earnings for statutory holiday pay.
You want to ensure that workers' earnings that you use to calculate holiday pay are in weekly amounts.
When creating the shadow earnings, you want to:
  • Start paying holiday pay from April 6th, 2022.
  • Split the earnings using the UK statutory holiday pay work period calendar.
To identify shadow earnings, you start their names with z_.
  • An existing earning for workers' salaries, called
    GBR Basic Salary (GBR)
    .
  • Create a UK statutory holiday pay work period calendar.
  • Create a
    GBR Shadow Earnings
    pay component group (PCG) to hold the shadow earnings.
  • Security:
    • Set Up: Payroll (Calculations - Payroll Specific)
      domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
    • Set Up: Payroll (Holiday Pay) - UK
      domain in the UK Payroll functional area.
  1. Access the
    View Earning
    report and select the
    GBR Basic Salary (GBR)
    earning.
  2. From the related actions menu, select
    Calculation
    Copy
  3. Enter these values:
    Option Description
    Name
    z_GBR Basic Salary
    Code
    z_GBR Basic Salary
    Country
    United Kingdom
  4. On the
    Effective Dated
    tab, enter these values:
    Option Description
    Effective Date
    April 6, 2022
    Calculation
    Workday automatically copies the calculation from the source earning.
    Do Not Recalculate During Retro
    Workday automatically copies the value from the source earning.
    Split by UK Statutory Holiday Pay Work Period Calendar
    Select.
  5. From the
    Worker Eligibility
    prompt, select
    Create
    Create Value Comparison Calculation
    .
  6. Enter these values:
    Option Description
    Name
    GBR Basic Salary <> 0
    Category
    Payroll
  7. Add this row to the
    Calculation
    grid:
    1st Operand
    Operator
    2nd Operand
    GBR Basic Salary (GBR)
    not equal to
    0
  8. Click
    OK
    to return to the
    Copy Pay Component
    task.
  9. On the
    Non-Effective Dated
    tab, in the
    Groups
    section, add the
    GBR Shadow Earnings
    PCG.
Workday splits the earning into weekly periods, based on workers' holiday pay work period calendars.
Edit your run category to add the PCGs for statutory holiday pay.