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Disguised Remuneration
A new field has been added to the Employee → Details screen and will feed through on any FPSs that are created on or after 1 March 2019. The field should be populated with any outstanding Disguised Remuneration loan to which the charge on DR loans applies.
Postgraduate Loans
From April 2019, postgraduate loan deductions will be taken from salary in the same way the student loan deductions are currently. Loans will be deducted at 6% on earnings above the £21000 per annum threshold. For further guidance please see the HMRC website
Loans will form part of the starter declarations and can be entered through the Employee ->Starter screen the Employee → Starter Declaration screen or imported with the Employee Starter importer
Two additional options have been added to the Processing → HMRC Data Retrieve screen (PGL1 and PGL2). Which match the existing Student Loans functionality for starting and stopping student Loans
The name of the Pay → Student Loan screen has been changed to Pay → Statutory Loans and both loan types can be started and stopped accordingly
Auto Enrolment - Postponement
A field has been added to the Employee → General screen which will automatically postpone new starters for 3 months or 12 weeks
Gender Pay Gap Reporting
The ability to record and report to fully comply with Gender Pay Reporting regulations has been added to the system Full details can be found here Gender Pay Gap
Worker Type and Daily/Hourly Rate
InPay has been enhanced in the area on Hourly and Daily Rates. Firstly a new field has been added to the Employee → Starter and Employee General screen called Worker Pay Type, this controls where in the system the rates are picked up from. The field has also been added to the Flat file and Employee Starter Importer. The options are Salaried, Graded or Hourly
A new field has also been added to the Company → General screen Default Worker Pay Type. This will default new workers if no pay type is selected. Upon first setting the type there will also be the option of setting all current workers
If the Worker is set as Salaried then the hourly rate is based on their pay divided by Contracted Hours. Contracted Hours continues to be shown on the Employee → Job Details screen. It will also be taken from the default workgroup options as it does currently. There is also now the option to set the Contracted Hours on the Employee → Starter screen and Employee Starter importer
The current Hourly Rate will continue to show through the Pay → Payments screen as it does currently
The Company → Pay Elements screen has been amended to allow Payments elements to be set based on the daily or hourly rate, there is also the opportunity to associate a factor against the pay element
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Once selected these rates will be automatically populated on any one off payment imports where only the number of hours is declared, the same applied through the timesheet grid and the Pay → Adjustments screen.
Reporting Change
On the reporting screen the pay period field is automatically populated with a 0 upon selecting a report
Percentage Deductions
A new screen for percentage deductions has been added.
Please see the documentation in the following link Percentage Deductions