We have an employee who has been going off sick alot. She started with us in June and immediately went off sick for about a month, having only worked 1/2 weeks. My boss (our employer) felt sorry for her and paid her her full salary anyway (she did bring a sick note in). Then she was on holiday for a really busy weekend (which caused a valued member of staff to resign in protest) so now she has had another weekend off sick and then gone on holiday. The Employer is getting annoyed and thinks she is taking the mickey, as told me to put her last sickness through as SSP as he paid her her full salary for the last time she was off.
My Question is how do I put that through on Quickbooks, everything i have tried doesnt effect her salary? I can understand their frustrations when other members off staff who are hourly paid get nothing for being off sick, whereas she seems to be off more then she is in and is getting paid in full.
Any Help is appreciated
-- Edited by Nicola27 on Monday 17th of September 2012 02:23:28 PM
do you want to change the thread title to start with Quickbooks so as to ensure that you attract Amanda when she logs in (I think that I can change it if it doesn't let you).
On a more generalised note the situation is a real problem. Employee's who do this do not seem able to comprehend that there they are not working in the public sector and there is not some magic well that their salary comes from and that nobody will be affected by their actions.
You can't fire someone for being sick but you could always use the bank approach and promote them into a role that doesn't exist and then right scope the position. If she's not been with the company long she will get very little by way of reduncancy and it has to be cheaper than having someone on the books whose never there.
Alternatively of course you could find that if you give her more responsibility she stops taking time off... But I doubt it.
Lol, next thing you know I'll be talking about Douglas McGregors work on Type X and Type Y people in a business.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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She is already the assistant manager, i don't think they would consider promoting her above that haha she does have a lot of responsibility already, but yes i do think she may need to have a redundancy package sent her way.
I used the SSP calculator from the HMRC website, and it said she was not intitled to any money, but I don't seem to be able to reflect this on quickbooks, it seems to want to pay her!!
I haven't used payroll on QB's for 3 years now so I may not be of much help now. To be honest the bolt on for payroll is so expensive it would cost me more per month than what I could earn doing payroll.
I know that when you set up each employer you have to put their yearly salary in (from memory) and this will then calculate the monthly. When you put in the SSP can you adjust the monthly manually and SAVE it, then when its next month if she has done an actual full month adjust it back to the normal pay? Have you set up the SSP within the Payroll when you set up the employee?
Like I say I haven't been using payroll for about 3 years and I haven't got it on mine to check either. I'm sure once I adjusted it manually.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
cheers,
PS - Looks Pauline has beaten me to it, I started mine then went off and did something else and have only just come back to it.
-- Edited by Amanda on Monday 17th of September 2012 09:38:58 PM
-- Edited by Amanda on Monday 17th of September 2012 09:40:34 PM
SSP isn't paid for the first three days an employee is off sick. I'm assuming she meets all the qualifying conditions. Are you using the payroll within Quickbooks? Is so, have you set up the Statutory pay information in the Edit Employee - Statutory Pay Info - SSP tab?
