Automated Weekly Payments Module (AWP)

SafetySuite collects all information required to automate the calculation of Weekly Payments. This includes the automation of AWE, Capacity to Work Values, absences in a period, absences to-date, and automation of Current Weekly Earnings.

Based on the entered details and each legislation's rules about threshold periods (and definition of weeks), and statutory minimum and maximum amounts; the weekly payment function determines each pay cycle what is to be paid for under threshold, legislative, and make-up pay components. Once approved, these are automatically allocated to their respective wage-types in SAP payroll for inclusion in payroll.

SafetySuite can interrogate the results in a payroll system with the push of a button returning AWE split between Normal, Overtime, and Allowance amounts.

In determining AWE, a warning pop-up may appear explaining any occurrences that may differentiate the returned statistical average figure from "normal and reoccurring". The user can then perform the necessary analysis and override both the legislated and make-up pay calculated figures for use in the automated weekly pay calculations.

To determine the Current Weekly Earnings for automated calculation, SafetySuite runs a payroll simulation in the background for relevant claimants.

As SafetySuite utilises the SAP time management and payroll functionality, all leave accrual rules and retrospective payroll functionality are enabled as they would normally be in SAP

SafetySuite calculates weekly payments by applying data from SAP payroll, Time Management, and SafetySuite Claim Data to WorkCover Authority Acts stored in SafetySuite tables. These reference tables are all date delimited to allow updates as the acts evolve. Simple changes to an act's threshold periods, percentages, and statutory amounts are direct updates and can be implemented and made available to customers well before their effective date.