BACS has circulated an extremely useful table which shows the dates for processing BACS over Christmas and New Year 2019.
While the additional bank holidays are extremely welcome, payroll departments need to be mindful of when they are submitting payrolls to ensure staff are paid on time this December and in January 2020. The below table was issued to assist with the task of timely payments and is a great help.
PAYMENT ARRIVAL DATE
PROCESSING DATE
LATEST SUBMISSION DATE
Tuesday 24 December
Monday 23 December
Friday 20 December
Friday 27 December*
Tuesday 24 December
Monday 23 December
Monday 30 December
Friday 27 December*
Tuesday 24 December
Tuesday 31 December
Monday 30 December
Friday 27 December*
Thursday 2 January
Tuesday 31 December
Monday 30 December
Friday 3 January
Thursday 2 January
Tuesday 31 December
Monday 6 January
Friday 3 January
Thursday 2 January
As previously reported, it is also essential that, when submitting the Full Payment Submission (FPS) over the Christmas period, payrollers include the contractual pay date and not the date that they are actually paying their staff, as many businesses opt to pay their staff early at this time of year.The importance of this lies in the fact that, inputting the earlier pay date could have repercussions for staff who receive Universal Credit payments, as it may skew the earnings reflected in the relevant assessment period. This may result in employees receiving lower benefit payments or even no payment at all in relation to Universal Credit.
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Work-related mental health conditions resulted in over 12 million sick days last year 21 November 2019
Findings from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) which have been analysed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that a staggering 12.8 million working days were lost in 2018-2019 due to work-related mental health conditions.
The HSE is the UK’s health and safety watchdog, which aims to reduce work-related death, injury and ill-health. Employers have been warned that they must work to resolve the issues that cause stress, anxiety and depression amongst their staff in the workplace, as the average number of days off work directly relating to work-oriented mental health conditions was 21.2 days per affected individual. There were 1,800 individuals affected per 100,000 workers, and there have been consistent increases to these figures since 2014-2015. Women in the age bracket of 35-44 saw the highest number of cases, with 2,410 cases in 100,000 workers, and women in general were more likely to suffer from work-related mental health conditions resulting in absence, than men. Mental health is the predominant cause of work-related ill-health and accounted for 44% of cases. Highly pressurised work environments with heavy workloads were listed as the main drivers behind work-related mental health conditions but the most recent data available is taken from data collated from 2009-2010 and 2011-2012 and so could potentially now be out of date.
Health and safety professionals have called for substantial improvements to be made to the current occupational health system and urged for the next government to reform policies to acknowledge workplace health.
The head of workplace wellbeing at charity Mind, Emma Mamo stated, “It’s concerning that an increasing number of staff are needing to take time off sick because of problems like stress, anxiety and depression. It’s not clear whether these issues are on the rise or, more positively, whether it’s now more acceptable for staff to be open when they need time off work for these kinds of problems.”
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The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
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