Your Workforce, Their Pay slip

From April 2019, the right to receive an itemised pay statement extends itself to all workers and not just 'employees.'

Many employees who use both workers and employees do not differentiate between the two types of employment status when it comes to providing pay slips. However, for those that do and in particular those who do not issue pay statements or pay slips to zero hour contract workers, this will ensure such workers do in fact receive a written itemised pay slip. The purpose of this change is to increase transparency between you and your workers.

Currently, a pay slip must include an employee's gross amount of wages or salary, the fixed and/or variable deductions from that gross amount and subsequently, the net amount of wages or salary received. If the pay slip you provide does not list the relevant deductions, you must provide a separate statement outlining the deductions and issue this at the same time if not before the pay slip.

The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Itemised Pay Statement) (Amendment) Order 2018 now requires employers to show the number of hours paid where a worker is paid on an hourly basis. The hours can be shown either:

• As a total, combined number of hours worked

• Or separate itemised figures for the different types of work at the different rates of pay.

Around 1.6 million time-paid employees currently do not receive pay slips stating the number of hours they are being paid for.

For more information on how we can tailor make your employee pay slips, please contact us via email; nicola@easypayepayroll.co.uk or call us on 01773 813562 today.