Summary

In Australia, employees who are injured at work are entitled to be compensated for time off work due to work related injuries by a scheme called WorkCover. WorkCover also covers Medical Expenses for work related injuries.

Each state has a WorkCover Authority, which is governed by state specific legislation.

Each WorkCover Authority has unique:

• Legislation to govern the calculation of Workcover Payments
• Employee Claim Forms
• Employer Claim Forms
• Medical Certificates

Please refer to your local WorkCover Authority for more information.

Tabs

There are three tabs:

Details:

The main entry area for this transaction.

Text:

Use this tab to enter transaction text that will appear next to the transaction. For further information see Adding Transaction Text.

Effective Dates:

The Begin date and End date fields on this tab are enabled only when you are entering this allowance as a permanent transaction.

Before you start

1. Navigate to Human Resources | OHS | Incident Register | Incidents.
2. Confirm that the incident has been entered for the employee. When you select the C. ACC type allowance, you will be prompted to select the incident that the payment relates to.

Fields

Claim number:

Payments made for a particular incident should be linked to that incident for reporting purposes.

Claim date:

Specify the date that the transaction is to be attributed.

to:

Specify an end date for the injury, if available.

Serious injury:

Yes/No field to indicate whether the seriousness of the injury.

Average weekly earnings:

On processing, calculates employee's hourly rate x profiled hours.

Notional weekly earnings:

Equals the greater of Average weekly earnings and Notional weekly earnings This field is generally set to 0.00, and on processing it is populated with the Average weekly earnings value.

Weeks in period:

Automatically populated. This is the number of weeks in the pay period attached to the employee.

Current period earnings:

This is the total of any allowances paid to the employee as a weekly value. If the Weeks in period in the field above is 2.00, then the value displayed here is:

Total of weekly allowances / 2

Percentage of AWE:

This is the compensation factor which is set by your WorkCover Authority. It will depend on the employee's incapacity (total or partial), and when the payment is being made. Generally this starts as a relatively high percentage of the employees pre-injury earnings. After a designated number of weeks this percentage can change to become a lower percentage.

Generally WorkCover allowances are set up in PayGlobal relating to each compensation factor.

Maximum weekly payment:

The WorkCover payment is subject to a legislative maximum which is set by your WorkCover Authority.

% of Notional earnings:

Specify a percentage value here, as agreed with WorkCover.

Less redemption/Pension:

Enter a value here as advised by WorkCover.

Cost Centre Code:

Default cost centre code from employee record.

Transaction total:

This field is automatically populated based on the values in other fields.

Recalculate:

The default for this field is Yes. Enter No only where you have entered an override amount in the Transaction total field.