https://community.toasttab.com/t5/back-office-team/toast-payroll-and-tafw-sick-pay-carry-over-balances/m-p/18349#M3334 <P>Super perplexed at the way Toast Payroll handles the TAFW settings and have been told twice now from Toast Payroll expert care that there is nothing they can do.&nbsp; So maybe I'm missing something...<BR /><BR />Our state (Washington) requires a Time Away From Work policy.&nbsp; Accrual is 1hr for ever 40 hour worked.&nbsp; At the end of the year, 40 hours or less of unused sick time is carried over.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Toast is accruing this correctly.&nbsp; However, Toast Payroll claims they are incapable of applying a rollover cap to just the carry over bucket of 40.&nbsp; I've been told that the system does not recognize the difference between the current year accrual period and the carryover bucket.&nbsp; So if they create such a cap, it would also cap the current year accrual to 40 hours.&nbsp; This would go against our state law.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Here's some examples.&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />2024 - Employee A accrues 35 hours of sick pay.&nbsp; None is used. 1/1/2025 - 35 hours added to Carry Over bucket<BR />2025 - Employee A accrues 35 hours of sick pay.&nbsp; None is used.&nbsp; 1/1/2026 - 35 hours added to a new Carry Over bucket<BR /><BR />So starting 2026, Employee A has 70 hours of sick pay available for use.&nbsp; This ignores the 40 hour carry over rule.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />I am being told there is nothing Toast can do besides putting expiration dates on carryover buckets.&nbsp; In the example, the first carry over bucket would expire completely, removing all 35 hours from the employee's availability (when in fact, 5 of the hours from that bucket should have rolled into the next year carry over bucket).&nbsp;<BR /><BR />So that leaves me to check every employee at the start of the year and manually adjust their TAFW balances.&nbsp;We switched from ADP and never had this struggle.&nbsp; Am I missing something?&nbsp; Any other WA state restaurants - can you chime in on how your policy is set up?<BR /><BR />The group I manage payroll for is fortunate to have many long standing employees so this is affecting more than half the staff.&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></P> Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:15:59 GMT EV_SEA 2026-03-19T21:15:59Z https://community.toasttab.com/t5/back-office-team/toast-payroll-and-tafw-sick-pay-carry-over-balances/m-p/18349#M3334 <P>Super perplexed at the way Toast Payroll handles the TAFW settings and have been told twice now from Toast Payroll expert care that there is nothing they can do.&nbsp; So maybe I'm missing something...<BR /><BR />Our state (Washington) requires a Time Away From Work policy.&nbsp; Accrual is 1hr for ever 40 hour worked.&nbsp; At the end of the year, 40 hours or less of unused sick time is carried over.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Toast is accruing this correctly.&nbsp; However, Toast Payroll claims they are incapable of applying a rollover cap to just the carry over bucket of 40.&nbsp; I've been told that the system does not recognize the difference between the current year accrual period and the carryover bucket.&nbsp; So if they create such a cap, it would also cap the current year accrual to 40 hours.&nbsp; This would go against our state law.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />Here's some examples.&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />2024 - Employee A accrues 35 hours of sick pay.&nbsp; None is used. 1/1/2025 - 35 hours added to Carry Over bucket<BR />2025 - Employee A accrues 35 hours of sick pay.&nbsp; None is used.&nbsp; 1/1/2026 - 35 hours added to a new Carry Over bucket<BR /><BR />So starting 2026, Employee A has 70 hours of sick pay available for use.&nbsp; This ignores the 40 hour carry over rule.&nbsp;<BR /><BR />I am being told there is nothing Toast can do besides putting expiration dates on carryover buckets.&nbsp; In the example, the first carry over bucket would expire completely, removing all 35 hours from the employee's availability (when in fact, 5 of the hours from that bucket should have rolled into the next year carry over bucket).&nbsp;<BR /><BR />So that leaves me to check every employee at the start of the year and manually adjust their TAFW balances.&nbsp;We switched from ADP and never had this struggle.&nbsp; Am I missing something?&nbsp; Any other WA state restaurants - can you chime in on how your policy is set up?<BR /><BR />The group I manage payroll for is fortunate to have many long standing employees so this is affecting more than half the staff.&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></P> Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:15:59 GMT https://community.toasttab.com/t5/back-office-team/toast-payroll-and-tafw-sick-pay-carry-over-balances/m-p/18349#M3334 EV_SEA 2026-03-19T21:15:59Z