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Holiday pay to furloughed staff

Tsara Taylor

We are planning to pay staff out for holidays accrued during the time they have been on furlough. Understand these are to be paid at 100% pay rate, however you can still claim the 80% furlough grant against this.

When looking at holiday accrued reports in the HR module the totals are significantly higher than an additional 20% on top of furlough pay that has been calculated by the system.

Why would this be? 

I was expecting some variations, especially where people work flexible hours, however it currently looks to be around 45% cost to the company vs the 20% expected (holiday pay accrued less relevant furlough grant, gross pay only). Concerns me that the furlough pay may be too low for there to be such a big difference - holiday pay in the system is set to be based on average earnings over 52 weeks and should not include tronc (our staff still receive a share of current tronc when on holiday usually), therefore this should more or less align with furlough pay for most employees.

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  • Sophie Waters

    Hi Tsara,

     

    Thank you for your question. Its difficult to answer without looking at your examples and the reports/pages in the system that you were using. It sounds like the employees you are referring to are flexible as their holiday would calculate on their working pattern based on their last 52 weeks of scheduled days and hours. 

    The flexible employee are paid their 'Day Rate' for a days' holiday- this amount is shown on their individual holiday page. To see which rota weeks have fed that calculation, clicking on the 'i' symbol by the 'average days/week' line will pop up the weeks with the days and hours worked which may help you work through the query. You can also check that none have been overridden in the batch update screen in HR> employees> employee batch update> choose attribute of 'flexible holiday override' and check to see if any have been ticked. 

    You could also check that they employees have not been booked for 7 days holiday in the period you are looking at, as 7 days multipleid by their day rate will show a weekly value higher than their standard week's pay. 

    If you need any more help with examples then please let your Fourth Customer contact know. 

    Many thanks,

    Sophie

    Solution Director. 

     

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