The Calculate Long Service Leave Entitlement background job calculates the date upon which an employee is eligible for Long Service Leave (LSL). The job examines the LSL policies linked to your employees’ entitlement policies and uses your employees’ employment status and leave details to determine when they’re eligible for LSL. After calculation, the job populates the eligibility date for your employees in the Long Service Leave Eligibility Date field in the Employment > Employment Settings screen of their employee profile in People.
Before You Begin: Long Service Leave functionality is available only for users in Australia and New Zealand.
For more information on LSL functionality in Dayforce, see Long Service Leave.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| No. Of Days From Today To Look Back No. Of Days From Today To Calculate |
The number of days from the present the job looks back when examining LSL eligibility in the No. Of Days From Today To Look Back field. |
| Specific Start Date Specific End Date |
The dates that mark the beginning and end of the period in which the job examines LSL eligibility using the Specific Start Date and Specific End Date fields. |
| Site | The sites that the background job runs for. |
| Entitlement Policy | The entitlement policies that the background job runs for. |
| Feature Preview Mode |
Run the background job in feature preview mode. This is useful for scenarios where legislation for a region is unclear or ambiguous regarding the correct LSL configuration, such as the movement of an employee between regions with different requirements. When this checkbox is selected, Dayforce calculates the LSL eligibility date for these inter-regional scenarios. Consider the following example: an employee joined an organization in State A which requires a seven-year continuous employment period for LSL. The employee takes two years of parental leave which doesn’t impact their employment continuity. In their eighth year of continuous service (when they’re eligible for LSL in State A), they move to State B which requires a 10-year continuous employment period for LSL eligibility and parental leave affects eligibility if it’s longer than one year. In this scenario, Dayforce applies the continuous employment requirement for the employee’s current region (that is, State B) when the background job runs. When this checkbox is cleared, Dayforce doesn’t calculate the LSL eligibility date in such scenarios. If the results of the job calculation don’t suit your requirements, you can clear (that is, update) the calculated date in the Long Service Leave Eligibility Date field in the Employment > Employment Settings screen in People by running the background job again with this checkbox cleared. |
| Clear Long Service Leave Eligibility Date On Error | Clear the date upon which an employee is eligible for LSL when the job completes with an error. When this checkbox is selected and an employee’s LSL eligibility calculation errors out, the Long Service Leave Eligibility Date field in the Employment > Employment Settings screen of their employee profile in People is cleared. |