WFM Release Note: New Usual Hours Calculation for Furlough Payments Export – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal

What’s Changing?

A new ‘usual hours’ calculation is being added to the ‘Furlough Payments (August 2020 onwards): By Whole Month’ export for employees who qualify for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) after October 2020.

Release date: 6^th April 2021.

Reason for Change

On 14^th April 2021, CJRS guidance was updated to include usual hours calculations for employees who fall under the reference date of 2^nd March 2021. More information about these changes can be found here.

Customers Affected

All HR & Payroll customers using the Furlough functionality.

Release Notes

The ‘Furlough Payments (August onwards 2020): By Whole Month’ export has been updated to include the usual hours calculation for employees who qualify for furlough and belong to the 2^nd March 2021 reference date.

To view the export, go to Payroll > Reports > Exports > Furlough Payments (August Onwards 2020): By Whole Month Date Range
Select the required criteria and then Run Export

For more detailed guidance on running this export, please see Release Notes WFM UK: Update to the Furlough Claim Export.

Currently, the ‘Normal Hours’ are populated automatically based on the following:

Furlough Reference Date 19^th March 2020 – the employee’s average hours for 2019/2020 tax year or the hours from the same period, previous year, whichever is higher
Furlough Reference Date 30^th October 2020 – the employee’s average pay from 6^th April 2020 to the 1^st November 2020, or the employee furlough date, if later

A new calculation will be added for employees who qualify for Furlough Pay from 1^st May 2021.

Furlough Reference Date 2^nd March 2021 – the employee’s average pay from 6^th April 2020 to the 1^st May 2021, or employee furlough date if later

To determine whether the employee falls within the reference date, their start date is used.

Reference date 30^th October 2020 – all employees who started employment on or after 20^th March 2020
Reference date 2^nd March 2021 – all employees who started employment on or after 31^st October 2020