Maternity Leave (Germany)

When you click Maternity in the Reason drop-down list, Dayforce shows the sections and settings described in the following table.

Before You Begin: This topic applies to German pay groups only. For general information about the Leave Management screen, see Leave Management.

Maternity Leave settings
Setting	Description
Leave Details
Status	The employment status for the leave. Usually the status is Inactive.
Reason	The reason for the leave. The leave reason determines the fields and settings shown for the leave. In this case, the leave reason is Maternity.
Start Date	The date that the leave begins. Defaults to the current date.
End Date	The date that the leave ends.
Extended Leave	An extended leave period has been requested. Extended leaves can only be requested in exceptional circumstances such as multiple or premature births.
Due Date	The date that the employee's child is expected to be born.
HR Information
Date Evidence Received	The date that the evidence for the leave request is received.
Evidence Valid	A Yes or No value to indicate whether the evidence provided by the employee is valid.
Extension Request Received Date	The date that the extension request is received.
Actual Birth Date	The birth date of the child.
Actual Birth Notification Date	Select the date the notification of the actual birth is submitted.
Live Birth	Select Yes or No in the drop-down list.

Qualified Earnings

After you’ve completed the fields in the Leave Details and HR Information sections, you can click Add in the Qualified Earnings section to open the Qualified Earnings Period panel and complete the fields as described in the following table.

Before You Begin: The Qualified Earnings section is relevant only for customers using the native payroll solution in Germany.

Qualified Earnings Period settings
Setting	Description
Effective From	The effective dates of the maternity qualified earnings. These dates must be within the effective dates of the leave record. A warning is shown if the effective from date isn’t the first day of the month and if the effective to date isn’t the last day of the month.
Effective To
Gross Monthly Average Pay	Dayforce calculates the average gross monthly pay of the employee, based on the start date of the leave period, and populates this field. This field is available only when there is a value in the Override Net Average Daily Pay field.
Override Gross Monthly Average Pay	The override value for the employee's gross monthly average pay.
Net Monthly Average Pay	Dayforce calculates the average net monthly pay of the employee, based on the start date of the leave period, and populates the field.
Override Net Monthly Average Pay	The override value for the employee's net monthly average pay.
Net Average Daily Pay	Dayforce calculates the average daily pay of the employee, based on the start date of the leave period, and populates this field.
Override Net Average Daily Pay	The override value for the employee's net average daily pay.
Override Net Average Daily Pay Reason	The reason for the override of the employee’s net average daily pay. This field is available only when there is a value in the Override Net Average Daily Pay field.

Note: You can add a maximum of eight records in the Qualified Earnings section.