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A Work Pattern details the days of the week your employee normally does and does not work. N stands for a non-working/non qualifying day and Q stand for working/qualifying day. To get you started we have pre-set some common working patterns for you, e.g. in our list the first pattern, P1, illustrates a Work Pattern for an employee who works from Monday to Friday.
Work Pattern information is necessary whenever Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) calculations are required. Before processing SSP, you must check that the correct Work Pattern is assigned to your employee. This tells the program what days of the week your employee works, so that when you enter SSP dates, the correct numbers of days are paid.
From the list of Work Patterns select the Pattern that applies to your employee, then enter the Start Date for this Pattern (the start date must fall on a Sunday), then click on the Add button. Your selected Pattern will then appear in the right hand Work Pattern box. Finally, click on the Save button to store your assignment.
If none of the pre-set Work Patterns are suitable for your employee, simply click on the link at the bottom of the page to create Additional Work Patterns. On the next screen, enter your Work Pattern in the last row of the list and then click on the Save button. Your newly created Work Pattern will now be added to the list of pre-set Work Patterns for you to select and assign to your employee.
If your employee has a different Work Pattern each week, you should select each different Pattern in the correct order (clicking on the Add button for each one in turn). The Patterns will then appear listed in the right hand box. Next, enter the Start Date for the sequence and then click on Save. The following screen summarises the Patterns you have assigned.
In the right-hand Work Pattern box click on the pattern you wish to remove, then click on the Remove button.