In Odoo, configuring salary attachments is an essential part of setting up the Payroll module. Salary attachments, often referred to as deductions or garnishments, are deductions made from an employee’s gross salary for various purposes, such as taxes, social security contributions, health insurance premiums, retirement fund contributions, and more.

These attachments need to be configured for several important reasons:

Compliance with Legal Requirements: Many countries and regions have specific laws and regulations governing the deductions that must be made from an employee’s salary. These laws may require employers to withhold a certain percentage of an employee’s earnings for income tax, social security, or other statutory contributions.

Accuracy and Consistency: Manually calculating and deducting salary attachments can be error-prone and time-consuming. By configuring these deductions, you can automate the process, reducing the risk of errors and ensuring that deductions are consistently applied to each employee’s salary.

Transparency: Salary attachments are typically communicated to employees through their pay stubs or statements. These deductions are automatically reflected in the employee’s salary slip, providing transparency and clarity about the breakdown of their earnings and deductions.

Employee Benefits: In addition to statutory deductions, some employees may have voluntary salary attachments, such as contributions to retirement savings plans or other benefits. Configuring these attachments in Odoo ensures that these contributions are accurately deducted and recorded.

Streamlined Payroll Processing: By configuring salary attachments, you streamline the payroll processing workflow. Odoo can automatically calculate deductions, generate salary slips, and process payroll, saving time and reducing the administrative burden on your HR and payroll teams.

Customization: Odoo allows you to configure salary attachments according to your organization’s specific needs. You can set up different types of deductions, specify the calculation method, and assign them to individual employees or groups of employees.

Configuring Salary Attachments

Go to the ‘Payroll’ application and select the ‘Salary Attachments’ option from the ‘Contracts’ menu.

The page shows the Salary attachments for employees with a description, type of salary attachment, monthly amount, start date, and status.

Creating a new Salary attachment

Select the New button to create a new Salary attachment.

Enter the details mentioned above in the salary attachment form and also the total amount so that the Estimated End Date field is automatically updated according to the total amount.

Let’s see the Salary attachment of the employee ‘Mark Demo’.

The salary attachment also contains a Document field where we can upload important files. We can also view the payslip of that employee by selecting the Payslips smart button at the top right corner. The status of the Salary can also be viewed.

The payslip also contains the information of the Salary attachment. Thus, the process is simple for managing the salary and its deductions efficiently. We can mark the stage of the Salary attachment as completed by moving the stage from ‘Running’ to ‘Completed’.