How to pay workers compensation (Work Cover)

Pay workers compensation

This article will demonstrate how to pay your employees while they are under workers compensation.

1. Create a new pay category - Create a new pay category and call it Workers Compensation (or WorkCover).  You'll be able to use this pay category for any employee in a similar situation in the future. To create a new pay category, please refer article "Pay Categories".

2. Set up the affected employee 

• Go to the affected employee's employee record/pay rates page
• Click Pay Rate and untick the "Show in pay run" box next to their default/usual pay category
  
  
  
  
  
• Scroll down the page until you see the new Workers Compensation pay category
• Enter the hourly rate and number of hours you'll be paying against this pay category each week and tick the box to "Show in pay run"
  
  
  
  
• Scroll down and hit Save.

From now this employee will show up in each pay run with an earnings line using the Workers Compensation pay category.

3. When the Workers Compensation period is over...

• Go back to the employee's record/pay rates page
• Untick the "Show in pay run" box next to the Workers Compensation pay category
• Scroll down and hit Save.