Flexipay has introduced as part of the 2.56 upgrade support for the Alabaster ruling. The ruling applies for any pay rise from the start of the 8-week reference period up to the end of maternity leave. If the ruling is applicable, Flexipay will recalculate the average pay from the pay reference period and backdate any earnings owed to the employee.
The field SMP end date is used for the end of maternity leave. If it is not set, the end of the maximum SMP paid period will be used.
If a pay rise is applied using Flexipay's pay rise system it will be used to recalculate the average pay and total SMP paid.
If you navigate to system>Maintain pay rises and either Add a new pay rise or Modify an existing one.
Tick Alabaster applies in the pay rise screen if Flexipay needs to check whether the pay rise affects any employee's SMP.
When applied, the Pay rise anomalies report will advise of any employees where Alabaster may apply.
Flexipay will set it to R (Required) when pay rise applied if there is some SMP that would be affected.
Flexipay will set it to A (Applied) when the average pay is recalculated. This is done automatically if the new pay group option to Automatically calculate SMP, SPP etc. is set. Otherwise it is recalculated when the employee's SMP form is opened.
Flexipay will reset it to N when the SMP record is cleared down.
The check pay report will check this field and error if it
is set to required. To correct this select Enter payroll details and open SMP for the employee. A message will advise that the average pay has been recalculated. Review the details and then select OK for SMP and then for Enter payroll details to save the update.
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