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Holiday and bank holiday pay and entitlements Questions answered include Is holiday pay based on contracted hours or the actual hors worked? What holidays are self employed people entitled to? Is there an entitlement for bank holidays to be paid? Can untaken holidays in one year be taken in the next? Can company shut down time be allocated against holidays? How do you calculate holidays based on days? Can SSP be paid whilst an employee is on holiday? Can holiday pay be calculated by the hour? How many days holiday are there for different weekly hours? Should holidays be paid at a new pay rate? What is the daily holiday rate calculation when paid monthly? National insurance contributions Questions answered include How do the NI thresholds and bands work? Can NI be calculated on a yearly basis to save me money? National minimum wage entitlement and exceptions Questions answered include Are salaried and non hourly paid employees exempt from the NMW? Online payslip checker issues Questions answered include How can I do my payroll when the online checker has no YTD's? Payment of salary or wages Questions answered include Does overtime have to be listed separately on a payslip? Stakeholder pension qualification Questions answered include Is everybody entitled to a stakeholder pension, even if part time? Statutory maternity, adoption and paternity pay entitlement Questions answered include What are employees entitled to when returning to work? Do holidays accrue normally during ordinary maternity leave? Are there benefits available whilst receiving SMP? Is paternity pay calculated the same as SMP? What happens to SMP payments when made redundant? What payments can be made for KIT days? Can an employer claim 4.5% compensation on Maternity Allowance? How are SMP payments reclaimed if there are no other employees? Can SMP be received from one employer whilst working for another? Is SMP due to an employee that left before producing MATB1 form? Early birth implications on holidays and maternity leave and pay Are SMP payments split between multiple employers? Statutory redundancy pay entitlement and calculation Questions answered include Is statutory redundancy paid on top of contractual redundancy pay? Is redundancy pay subject to a student loan repayment? Can you work for the same company after being made redundant? Is statutory redundancy pay reclaimable from HMRC? What happens if the redundancy pay exceeds £30,000? Is it possible to receive redundancy pay after retirement age? Can the redundancy payment be made through the payroll? What happens to SMP payments when made redundant? Statutory sick pay entitlement and calculation Questions answered include How much SSP should be paid for a week off? How can the SSP payments be checked once they have ceased? Why is SSP not the same as my usual salary? Am I entitled to receive SSP after I been working for 18 months? An employee takes a lot of time off; what entitlements do they have? What is a linked period of SSP and how is it paid? Who pays for the first three days off sick or is it just lost? Must a sick note be provided to pay SSP? Are SSP payments split between multiple employers? How long is SSP paid for? Can SSP entitlement be stopped by a contract condition? Is a half day off classed as a sick day for SSP? Does SSP stop after reaching state retirement age? What rate of SSP should be paid when period spans two tax years? Can SSP be paid whilst an employee is on holiday? Student loan repayment Questions answered include Are student loans deducted before or after tax? Is there a time limit for repayment? Will a student loan repayment be taken from redundancy pay? Tax band and rate issues Questions answered include Can overseas students claim back the tax paid whilst in the UK?

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