In this webinar, you'll learn how to enter sickness for any absent employees and calculate statutory sick pay with ease. We show you various ways to enter sickness in Sage 50 Payroll to suit your personal preference. We’ll also take you through how the program calculates SSP as well as things to check to ensure everything is accurate and correct.
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| Question | Answer |
| What if there normal week is Wed to Thursday but occasionally they do weekends. how would you enter sick days? | If they have a specific rota of set weekend working then this can be entered as a second week on the Qualifying day pattern by clicking the blank space at the bottom of the working day pattern. |
| If they were not entitled to SSP but you are still recording the sick days and it is a red A but they have been paid what they were due, can you go back and correct the A? | You can go back to correct this, but if you have already updated records, you would need to rollback or restore a back up to then make any amendments and then reprocess. |
| I pay gross pay for the month calculate how many days they are absent and record in Deductions as absence then calculate and pay SSP - is this correct? | Technically you can, but if it is done in this way, it will not show on any reports that record SSP, so I would recommend recording this through SSP entry. |
| if someone changes their contracted working hours during the month - how should this be recorded? | I would recommend adding a second pattern on the Qualifying day pattern to not give extra sickness days. |
| If our team working every week different shifts, can all days be marked as qualifying? | If this is the case, you can enter multiple working patterns which can be done by clicking the blank space below the first qualifying pattern, if they have for example a two week rotation. If they could work any day and no set rota, then that would be correct |
| If an employee takes sick while on holiday and will now be off for weeks when do you start SSP? | You would start the SSP from the first day of the sick note. If this overlaps with holiday days taken. You can amend those days from Holiday to SSP. |
| Can we start to use SSP in SAGE part way through the tax year and how do we do this? | Yes you can. You would need to change this manually in the recording SSP section. Payroll needs to have previous weeks processed in order to work out their AVG earnings, to check if they are above £123. Since your starting mid year, this will be 0 for all employees. If you know the employee in question earns above £123 per week. You can manually change the amount of AVG earnings to the correct amount they earn per week. |