Anyone understand furlough and enforced holiday?

[overprotectivemama]

I've just returned to work last week and got paid today and I don't understand my payslip at all, can anyone help??

I'm paid 4 weekly. My furlough was reduced by the hours worked but that was paid at basic rate so that's fine.

What's confusing me is holidays.

We were all made to take 1-2 weeks (depending on how much we had left) so I had a week off plus we were all paid for the bank holidays that occurred during furlough.

So 20% top up for 1 week plus 4 bank holidays equal £27!

I'm on min wage but that's surely taking the piss??

Also my contract is 16 hours per week.

I'm not sure I understand but statutory holiday has to be paid at full contractual daily rate (your employer can only pay back the furlough rate but you get paid 100%)

Whereabouts in uk are tough for 4 bank holidays in July? I'm not sure they can decide to pay the extra for holidays been and gone in prior months unless they informed you first. So maybe its not bank hols is my first thought.

£27 would be an approx top up for furloughed holiday on 1 week of approx 16 hours on NMW for over 25's.

So are you over 25 and how many hours a week do you work?
I should be able to work.outvthe additional for you 😊

That looks like roughly one week so maybe they forgot the 4 bank holidays. Or is your figure net of tax etc?
If you aren’t sure just ask them. It’s complicated and payroll can make mistakes just like the rest of us.

Are you not tough 😂

Sorry - your employer can only claim back the furlough rate

Hi,

I've been answering queries like this from my own team so I hope I can help.

The £27 top up works out as the amount to top up 16hrs of work so that works out to cover your week of AL.

As far as Bank Holidays - are you sure that's correct when you say: "we were all paid for the bank holidays that occurred during furlough". I'm just going off my own experience but no one on furlough was paid for the bank holidays that occured. It was just another day paid at 80% of full pay.

If the employee only gets statutory annual leave and this includes bank holidays (so for a full time employee this would be 8 bank holidays plus 20 days), then any bank holidays that have taken place during furlough ought to have been paid at 100%.

I've just spoken to someone who got a better explanation from the payroll dept.

Basically our employer topped up the furlough on bank holidays so we got 100%. So the £27 is 16 hours for one weeks holiday plus 16 hours for the bank holidays both at 20%.

Which comes to £52 when I add it up.

8.21 per hour.

I guess I'm doing it wrong

@Remotely our employer said we would be paid for bank holidays that occur during furlough. I stupidly assumed it was 100% on top

Were you contractually obilged to be paid for bank holidays, I don't quite understand what you mean by that? It sounds like maybe you've misunderstood that bit as you've had a week of holidays topped up to your 100% salary. Is yours a business where you would work on a bank holiday?

Yes we're open 7 days a week. My shifts usually happen on Mondays and Fridays. The company decided to top up the bank holidays for everyone

The only day we close is Xmas day

I started a similar thread and got flamed!!! So i hope you are strong OP lol 😂 x

@overprotectivemama

Yes we're open 7 days a week. My shifts usually happen on Mondays and Fridays. The company decided to top up the bank holidays for everyone

So what did they say when you queried the bank holiday amounts?

Are you sure you weren’t paid the 20% top up for bank holidays when they happened?

It looks like they've forgotten the bank holidays.

£27.90 is correct for your holiday, presuming that you are on £8.72 an hour. 8.72 x 16 = 139.52, furlough covers 80% of that but your employer has to top it up to 100%, so they owe you 20%. 20% of £139.52 is £27.904.

If you usually do 2 8 hour shifts a day, that's £69.76 - so about £13.90 for each bank holiday. Did you not get paid for those at the time? Payroll may not have processed those yet if not, I'm not sure about the legalities of paying out for all the bank holidays at once.

I'm on £8.21

I do 16 hours a week over 3 days. So 5/5/6.

I think somethings missing. Payroll are sure it's correct. Trying to grab my line manager for a chat has been pretty hard as we're so busy.

No my furlough pay has been the same every payslip until this one.

So you would get 26.27 for the 20% holiday top up

That makes your bank holiday pay £8.21.

If that definitely hasn’t been paid at the time of the bank holidays, you’ll be owed £32.84.

But that's not including the 16 hours top up I should have received for bank holidays

Yes @ShellsAndSunrises that's what I'm thinking.

Bank holidays were included in the furlough holiday pay we received this month according to head office and payroll.

OP, I'd ask payroll to clarify your pay, and not go by what your colleague has been told about his/hers

Also, your furlough pay will be slightly different now you are on flexible furlough as the calculations are different.
Furlough was based on 80% of (whichever method) previous earnings.
Whereas flexi furlough is calculated on hours worked in a normal shift pattern.