Help Desk - FAQ

Australian users of Sybiz Visipay will automatically switch over to STP2 from the first payrun after the 1st November, 2022.  If you need more information about the changes, or need to confirm your Visipay database is prepared and ready to go, please refer to this link:

Webinar: Getting ready for Single Touch Payroll 2 (STP2) – Sybiz Software

1. If the employee will work through the notice period, leave must accrue as normal to the last day of work. Leave does NOT accrue on the leave hours paid out on the final pay
2. If an employee gives notice, and it is decided to pay them out, (In Lieu Of Notice – ILON), leave accrual stops on the last day of actual work.
3. If an employee is put on “gardening leave”, instead on ILON, leave does not accrue.
4. It is not legal in Australia to force an employee to use their Annual Leave to reduce the ILON. Both ILON and Annual Leave must be paid if an employee is not allowed to work out their notice period.

If you have employees who are salary sacrificing laptops, vehicles, or other non-super items, you may want to track this through payroll.  However, If the Salary Sacrifice has no FBT implications, it might be easier to leave it out of payroll altogether, and simply reduce his hourly rate for ‘standard’ hours to reflect the amount they are sacrificing.

If you need to track and report on FBT, this how Visipay can manage it:

• Create a new Earning Pay Item called “Vehicle Salary Sacrifice” or similar
• Create a new Fringe Benefit called “Vehicle FBT” or similar

Edit the employee’s pay profile, and add the Earning item with a negative Qty, for the amount they are sacrificing, and add the FBT line for their contribution.  If there is no FBT implication, but you prefer to manage Salary Sacrifice through payroll for reporting reasons, simply ignore the FBT steps above.