HR company settings: Employment settings

Overview 

The Employment Settings section allows you to customise your employment settings to suit your business needs. You can, for example, edit settings such as what timesheet type you use in your organisation, whether you have two-level leave approval enabled, or whether to make two factor authentication mandatory for all your employees.

Important

You will need to have enabled the open beta feature, Negative Leave Balances, before you can use the new features outlined in this article. You can enable this beta feature via the Beta Flask drop-down and selecting to Opt in, though remember this is still an in development feature and subject to change. To read more on how to enable this in progress beta feature, refer to the following article.

Availability

HR Plan:	Free	Standard	Premium	Platinum
Payroll Plan:	Standard		Premium

Maintain

Editing your employment settings

1. Click the General Settings menu.
2. Click the Company Settings submenu.
3. Click the Employment Settings button.
4. Complete the following fields:
   
   

   Warning

   Refer to the Employment settings feature availability section for which settings are accessible, as this depends on what Employment Hero plan you are on.

   • Setup mode.

   Helpful Hint

   Setup mode allows you to block all outgoing emails from the platform. However, it only blocks emails at the time they trigger, not at the time they would send.

   For example, if an action in the HR platform undertaken at 3pm triggers an email to go out, and the email settings enabled means it will send this message at 7pm, and you switch setup mode on at 5pm, this email will go into a queue to send once you switch setup mode off. However, if you were to turn setup mode on at 2pm, then the trigger never happened and no email will go out once you turn setup mode off.

   • Two level leave approval.
   • Timesheet entry.

   Helpful Hint

   Employment Hero provides three timesheet types:

   • Start and End Time Based on Daily Entries.
   • Daily Hours Based on Daily Entries.
   • Daily Hours Based on Weekly Entries.
   • Negative leave balance.

   Important

   If your payroll admin enables the Hide an Employee's Leave Balance feature within the Payroll platform, then an employee can still submit a leave request even if they would go into a negative balance and you have enabled this feature.

   • Calendar type.
   • Overnight timesheets.

   Important

   The overnight timesheets feature is only available if you select the Start and End Times Based on Daily Entries timesheet option.

   • Show staff details.
   • Enforce two factor authentication
   • Typical work day.
   • Automatically pay employees.
   • HR Manager emails.

   Helpful Hint

   Employment Hero adds the email provided to the invitation email. This provides a new employee with a point of contact for any issues regarding the platform. You can enter multiple HR manager emails by using a comma to separate them.

   • Work safe authority.

   Helpful Hint

   Work safe authorities can review all safety incident reports.

5. Click the Save button.

Further information

Employment settings feature availability

Function	Free	Standard	Premium	Platinum
Setup mode
Two level leave approval
Timesheet: Start and end times based on daily entries
Timesheet: Daily hours based on daily entries
Timesheet: Daily entries based on weekly entries
Negative leave balance
Calendar type
Overnight timesheets
Show staff details
Enforce two factor authentication
Typical work day
Automatically pay employees
HR manager emails
Work safe authority