Question

New Stat Pay Feature

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
November 9, 2023
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Is there a way to opt out of the new stat holiday pay items?

The hours paid to an employee for Stat pay are insurable however it looks like only a lump sum can be entered in the "Stat Pay - Average daily wage" column. Entering the stat pay as a lump sum amount is more work for me then simply entering the hours.

Also, the "Stat Pay - Hourly Premium" pay item will never be used by my company and now shows on the paystub with the YTD amount from the previous "Stat Pay" pay item which I do not want.

Workforce Payroll

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1133Author

One more thing: with the "Stat Pay - Average Daily Wage" pay item only being a lump sum on the "Run Payroll" window I can no longer allocate the cost of the stat pay to a project via the time sheet. I will now have to run a separate report and post a manual journal entry which will be very time consuming for multiple projects and employees.

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Amanda-B

Good morning, 1133.

Thanks for turning to the Community for support. QuickBooks Online Payroll is designed and set up in accordance with government guidelines. At this time, there isn't a way statutory holiday can be turned off. However, you can simply leave that box blank for the employees that shouldn't receive statutory holiday.

I can see being able to turn off statutory holiday would be beneficial for you, so I encourage you to leave feedback by heading to the "Gear" icon and selecting the "Feedback option. Our developers view and take into consideration each comment as they create new features and updates for QuickBooks.

Feel free to reach back out here if you have any other questions.

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brianstse

Hi Amanda,

I can understand the stat holiday pay premium was created to match government rules but there are still instances that fall through the crack. As such, we are a construction company that requires us to pay our employees at least 3.6% of wages which is what we used the previous stat holiday pay for. With it gone I guess I can enter it manually and calculate each employees stat holiday pay myself but this would add an extra step and force me to keep an separate excel for the calculation when before it was all setup on QB. Would it not make sense to have two stat holiday pay types one "stat holiday - standard" and "stat holiday - premium" that way the employer can choose which one applies in their specific case?

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lr_ca

Hey there, Brianstse.

I appreciate you chiming in on this thread. I hear you on this. I recommend leaving feedback for our developers by heading to the "Gear" icon and clicking on the "Feedback" option. These comments are viewed and considered as they create new features and updates for QuickBooks.

Don't hesitate to reach back out if you have any other questions.

We should not have to click on the gear to send feedback to nameless developers that will never read it.

*THIS*, right here and ALL these responses ARE the feedback you should be listening to.

Instead, you just keep repeating the same "please click on gear" platitudes and nothing gets fixed on a timely basis.

You guys made a complete mess of this. Worse yet, you don't seem to realize that.

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SD_3

This new "feature" is a joke. I have spent 3 hours today on the phone trying to fix this issue and it still isn't fixed. Payroll is today. And for some reason in the last two weeks my stat pay hourly premium rate has somehow changed and is not correct. Quickbooks fix the problem, I pay for this program to make my life easier not harder but now I am considering finding an alternative because I do not have time to waste.

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kdmac

Has anyone heard any more about whether or not QuickBooks is working on this? And when we will get a fix?

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TKP79

New Member

Apparently they changed it again on December 5th. There is a some info about it in this support article .
There was a little notification at the top of my bank transactions page (dumb place to put it) that told me there were "Statutory holiday pay feature improvements" with a link to the support article.

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lesleyn

I see that now. Thanks so much!!

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