I a doing a furlough claim where the employee works variable hours - the payroll is weekly
Their usual hours is 12 hours per week.
In the first week of septmeber they worked 24 hours - no furlough
In the second week they worked 8 hours - therefore a small furlough claim
Is this ok? when i go to claim i am going to have a problem as the usual hours worked for the period will be more (24) than the actual hours worked (20)
its the first claim of the month so the claim automatically generates 1 september as the start date for the claim
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Not sure it does
Fairly certain not intended to cover this.
If your reading is correct then an incentive to work alternate double week and nil week, for employee
But when you submit it will say 1 Sept to 13 Sept.
I have only got 2 clients using weeks so not got the problem.
Can you not submit the claims weekly which is what we have started doing. If it is a mixed payroll with monthly then this is a bit of hassle. We had the situation where the employees worked 4 days out of 5 but some did overtime on one of their work days. We had to include the additional hours in the actual hours so this reduced the furlough claim ..... the employer then had to top up so the employee got the amount they would be expecting. So the overtime became really expensive.
We also have something similar to yours on the pubs/restaurants as during August with the Eat Out the furlough claim was really low as hours were high though now it's going back up as people are no longer eating out. So I think variances are to be expected.
Problem is that there are too many different scenarios and the rules can't possibly cover all.
Before they issued the guidance if we had 4 weeks within a monthly submission we restricted the hours worked to average hours if they had worked more than average in a week. This seemed to make sense at the time but again it's not covered in current guidance. Not had to submit a mixed once since this came out but now submitting 4-6 claims a month for the weeklies due to the orphan days.
You could argue that they were still on furlough that first week .... it's just that FF is nil. This is the problem even with detailed guidance people will interpret it in different ways.