If your employee earns under their tax code limit with all their jobs added together, you can advise them to request that their tax code is split between their places of employment.  They will need to contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to apply for this request.

The short answer is no. It is against the law to pay your staff instead of giving them annual leave - you must ensure they take it. Even if they say they are happy to be paid, it is not in their interests in terms of their health and well being not to take their full holiday allocation.

You could allow them to 'roll over' some annual leave into the next holiday year if they have been unable to fit it in and you both agree with this.

We don't recommend that this becomes the 'norm' as they need to have time off at fairly regular intervals.

It is your responsibility as an employer to keep records of your employee's annual leave.  If you need help keeping records, please contact your independent living adviser (rather than Payroll Bureau).

As tax and National Insurance contributions are calculated by HMRC every time an employee is paid, it is more important than ever that time sheets are sent in on time. Once the pay cycle has been closed, we cannot process a late time sheet until the pay cycle re-opens (usually every four weeks).

As your employee's tax and National Insurance contribution won't have been calculated for the missed pay cycle, they may end up paying more than they need to. You can find the dates you need to have your time sheets submitted by on your payroll planner.

If you use My View, please use this service to submit your timesheet hours if you have a standard payroll account (you pay your PA yourself). If you are not set up on My View for timesheet submission (e.g. if you have a managed account), please email them to the address given at the top of your timesheet (this may be your local office). You can scan or even take a photo of your time sheet and send it to us. If you do need to post your timesheet, please allow the time for mailing as we need to receive it on time to process it.

Anyone who earns over their tax threshold has to pay tax to HMRC, irrespective of their age.

If you use My View, you will be able to see employee payslips on your account the day before your pay day. If you don’t use My View, payslips will be posted to arrive the day before pay day.

Yes. It is now law to offer a workplace pension to all eligible staff. Penderels Trust offers an auto enrolment scheme as part of their payroll service. We will let you know which employees are eligible and advise you on what you need to do.

As part of auto enrolment, you are required to make a financial contribution. If you have any concerns about paying that contribution from your direct payment, please contact your local authority.

If your employee goes off sick, you need to keep a record of the dates and times when they are off. If you use My View, your employee should submit a ‘sickness claim’ via the system. If they use the timesheet form and email it in, for the days that they would normally work, they should write 'Sick' across those days.

This will enable your Payroll Officer to calculate any Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) that is due to them. SSP is paid to employees who have four or more days off sick and earn more than the minimum for eligibility (this changes each financial year, visit https://www.gov.uk/statutory-sick-pay/eligibility for the criteria).

You cannot claim back SSP payments from HMRC. If you don' t think you have enough money in your account to cover the SSP, please contact your local authority for support.

Before HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) can speak to your payroll service provider about your PAYE account, they must receive a 64-8 (Authorising your Agent) form, completed and signed by you and returned to your payroll service provider.

HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) will issue a penalty to any employer whose PAYE payment has not cleared with them by the 19th of the billing month. In most cases, employers are issued with a bill quarterly in January, April, July and October.