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PAYROLL ON POINT | NOVEMBER 2019
AVERAGE HOLIDAY PAY
Currently, when calculating average pay for holiday pay for each employee, an employer has to look back at the employee’s earnings over the prior 12 week period, known as the ‘holiday pay reference period’. However, from April 2020 the holiday pay reference period will be extended to 52 weeks. One of the main reasons behind this change is to accommodate seasonal workers so they are not disadvantaged by the employer using just a 12 week reference period for the calculation - they may not have worked in that period.
However, one item to note is that if the employee has worked for the employer for less than 52 weeks, the pay reference period is then the number of weeks that the employee has been in that employment. Whilst the change has been announced, no guidance has yet been published about how the change to a 52 week holiday pay reference period will work in practice. It is expected that it will work much in the same way as before, but we will provide further updates on this change and any transitional rules once the guidance has been published.
For help and advice on holiday pay issues, please do not hesitate to contact your regular payroll contact.
HR SOLUTIONS - UPDATE
X X Full HR management of personal details, contracts, assignments, disciplinary and grievance, employee files, right to work, absence management and new starter and leaver management X X Management of Tronc payments, on-line payslips and expense management X X Work management module enabling forecasts and targets, scheduling, shift change, time and attendance, workload and budgets, task management and daily dashboard X X Learn module for assessment and checklists, training administration, training content X X Recruitment module with applicant portal, management of vacancies, applicant management, offer and hire and interview management X X A news and communication portal with events calendar and document repository X X Full analytics module and query builder X X Full integration with our payroll systems, removing the need for information to require manual intervention. Our strong partnerships with employment law specialists enable us to give you access to wider HR advisory services including: X X Drafting of policies, contracts, handbooks and other staff documentation X X Settlement agreement advice and support X X Restructuring advice and support X X Redundancy advice and support X X TUPE advice and support X X Disciplinary and grievance advice and support X X Background checks, where relevant subject to role etc. X X Issuing of staff contracts. If you would like any further information on any of the above services, please contact paul.hammond@bdo.co.uk or nigel.honnor@bdo.co.uk .
We are pleased to announce that we have now launched an extensive range of HR solutions offerings for our clients, to ensure we are able to support all areas surrounding our clients’ staff members, whilst providing full compliance. These solutions are tailored and flexible, ensuring they accommodate all your specific requirements. We offer a low cost and simple to use HR software solution for businesses with fewer than 250 staff which provides: X X Access to a simple, easy to use HR system, which is cloud based allowing access for both the central team and all staff, whenever and wherever they are X X Access to central staff for updating of records and adding of new starters information X X Ability for the BDO payroll team to download a monthly file of all changes entered by the client each month, to be fed into the payroll system, removing the need for duplication of data transfer X X Ability for online announcements to all staff X X Shared policy documents and templates X X Employee self-service for all absence recording X X Ability to submit, approve and report on expense claims from one seamless easy to use system X X Automation of holiday booking and sickness processes X X Line management authorisation X X Staff responsibility for updating of their own records X X Email reminders for key events X X Tracking benefits and rewards, training and career development X X A performance management process.
For businesses with more than 250 staff, we now have a partnership with a provider that offers a full HR solution, offering:
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