Hi, does anyone know for payroll purposes if for example someone's gross pay is £1,000 per month does 80% of this - £800 need to pe processed as a line on the wage slip with Tax & NI to come off or does £1,000 need processing?
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Same question. Our current thinking is the following:
1. Create a new pay element Furloughed pay. This element includes the pay for being furloughed, in the amount we will be paying to the employee.
2. In our case, for some staff the amount under 1/ is 80% of their pay.
3. For other staff, this will be more than 80%, as 80% would take them below NLW, so we have to top up in order to be compliant, as NLW is non-negotiable.
4. We keep a separate record of the calculated base pay that we will use as evidence for our claim to the HMRC when the system becomes available. For some, we will claim a full amount, for others (minimum wage staff), it will be a lower amount than we actually paid them.
Example:
Anna, normal pay 10 h @£20 per hour - payment processed as 80%x200=£160. Claim will be for £160.
Ben, normal pay 10h @£8.21 per hour - payment processed as £82.10, claim will be for 0.8*£82.10 = £65.68
Cecil, normal pay 10 h @ 9.00 per hour - payment processed as £82.10. (80% of £9.00 is £7.20, which is below minimum pay, so need to pay at least £8.21). Claim will be for £65.68
Input welcome. Thanks.
I don't think minimum wage comes into it. There are no hours worked, and the minimum wage is an hourly rate. Any pay to furloughed workers is therefore over the minimum wage.
3. For other staff, this will be more than 80%, as 80% would take them below NLW, so we have to top up in order to be compliant, as NLW is non-negotiable.
Are your sure the NMW rules apply since, since the staff are not actually working for their pay?
Great, thanks. Please guys have a look and post what you think of this:
https://www.cipp.org.uk/uploads/assets/5d7b47d9-5f5c-4e24-bc82dc236774d0...
Ok, kind of replying to myself here, but I am on the clock, so have to think a lot about this.
While true the staff are not working for their pay, they continue to accrue benefits - holiday pay, SSP, pension. Also, while on zero hour contracts, we paid, i.e. contracted them for those 10h in my example, and I think the logic would have it we are now acting as if we contracted them again for 10h. And for those, they cannot get less then minimum pay.
Also, if somebody is a full time employee on minimum pay (contractual hours), then they need to receive a full pay equivalent x 80%. But by law, they cannot agree to have their wage reduced below minimum wage.
So that's my thinking - completely off the cuff and based on browsing the internet. Please keep talking if you have other arguments.
You might want to check the actual requirements of the NLW/NMW legislation - the NMW Manual is very helpful.
That aside, we'll have to await the further details before being able to say much definitive.
I have a weekly payroll on SAGE still not clear as to what I have to do. They have a varied hourly rate but the Director has agreed to pay a 40hr week for the next two weeks. How does this effect the staff if I have to furlough them after that and how do I do it?
Unless someone can show me legislation which says otherwise. Which at the moment no one can.
I personally take the view that if you plan on paying staff the 20% record full wages.
I was under the impression that even if you only pay the 80%, 100% still needs to be recorded in some way to prove that it would have been their normal wage.
Otherwise we might get in a situation where payslips or fps submissions are evidence of pay and only 80% can be proven.
Its all speculative at the moment.
Thanks for your reply - surely the previous few months pay submissions of £1,000 each month in this example would be the evidence?
Only for those on the same pay month in, month out.
What about bonuses, holiday pay etc.
But if you enter 100%, then payroll SW will calculate FPS on that basis, plus if you don't pay that to the employee, you will end up having a wage liability on your books.
I thought the whole idea of making this scheme available to PAYE workers was so that it could be checked against previous records.
Imho, you need to identify what you're going to reclaim from HMG and the furlough pay therefore needs to be on a separate line. Albeit it's amalgamated with the rest of the pay to work out the tax.
Who knows ? It's all new..........
Pending detailed guidance don't you just process the pay as normal? Whatever you are paying them gross goes through payoll. If you make a wrong assumption about how the job retention scheme will work then you 'll have deal with that later.
I think that misses the point that the JRS is for businesses that cannot really afford to process payroll as normal and make a wrong assumption.
Beggars belief to me that so many people have energy to "assume" and "predict". Nothing is in place yet. WAIT.
As it clearly indicates on Gov.Uk latest its "reimbursement" via a " new online portal"
And what is your advice to people that have to run payroll in the meantime, and are in the exact intended position for which this was set up - cannot afford to pay if the government does not help?
Just to close the topic for everyone that comes here later, Govt just published guidance, available at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-for-wage-costs-through-the-coronavirus...
For my own questions posted here, the answer is very clearly that NMW does not apply.
Thank you all for contributing.
For my own questions posted here, the answer is very clearly that NMW does not apply.
I said that as well. No work, no minimum.
Well done on the knowledge. I guess I was hoping. Offering to cover £2500 is very generous, at that level the hit will be substantial, but not existential, as it will be for people on NMW and ZHC. Kind of thinking the government could have made it easier on themselves by making NMW the floor. Like this, they will be processing the same people twice - furlough grant and universal credit. Oh well. But agree that's outside the technical scope, and I bow to your superior unbiased interpretation. Thanks for playing.
Yes they are, I have since found out that I have to take their average weekly wage from Jan, Feb and March 2019 to get a weekly gross wage then pay 80% of that.
Where did you get this information, as I have spent all day calculating the previous 12 month period to get the average.
This all depends on how much you are paying, if you are paying the full 100% then it all must be shown, if you are only paying them the 80% then only the 80% must be shown and tax and NI deducted on the 80% figure as normal.
I have created a separate pay description of Furlough Pay to keep the figures separate from standard pay.