These instructions were updated on the 21st July 2020 |
As part of the UK Governments support for businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) went live in the UK on the 20th April 2020.
Information on how to claim can be found on the HMRC website here.
As an employer it is your responsibility to understand the calculations and obligations under this scheme, failure to report accurately will have an impact on the timeliness and value of your claim.
We are currently developing reporting capabilities to assist with the calculation and submission of your claim.
HMRC have set a threshold of 100 furloughed employees before you can upload a file, employers with less than this will need to enter details manually to the portal. |
To learn how to make a claim and login to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme portal you can follow this link.
Infinet Cloud Payroll does not support auto-calculation of the rate to be paid to employees whilst on CJRS, HMRC Guidance can be found here. Where you are calculating for an employee on "Salary", please multiply the frequency to get an Annual figure (i.e. multiply the monthly rate by 12, weekly rate by 52, etc.). When you are calculating for an employee on "Wages", please calculate the rate "per hour" in line with their Leave Request Working Week. If you fall outside of the two scenarios above, please contact support@infinetcloud.com |
To ensure that Employee pay is correctly pulled in to the CJRS reporting there must be a Salary/Wages Pay Component of the requisite type on the employee record, which is current.
Infinet Cloud CJRS Reporting supports claims that are either calculated as 80% by the Employer, or at topped up to 100% by the Employer (and the report will claim 80% of that figure). If you are topping up to some other variable you must create the Salary/Wages as 100% and adjust manually |
You will need to calculate the number of furlough hours per day - please review the government guidance on this here. |
Prior to setting up the pay component you need to ensure your employees are set up on their contractual Leave Request Working Week (e.g. 40 hours total, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day) |
On the employee's record edit the existing Furlough Pay Component or create a new Pay Component as indicated below depending on whether they are Salary (Base Salary) or Wages (Normal Time):
1. Pay Component Sub Type | Base Salary | Normal Time | |
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2. Description | Auto-sources | ||
3. UOM | Year | Hour | |
4. Frequency | Auto-sources from the employee's record | ||
5. P&L Account | As appropriate | ||
6. Quantity | 1 | Number of hours per week/fortnight | |
7. Rate | 100% of contractual annual salary | 100% of contractual hourly rate | |
8. Amount & Amount Per Period | Auto-populates with the employee's standard contractual pay per period | ||
9. Start Date | Must be the first day of the employee's period of Furlough | ||
10. Current | True | ||
11. Is Furlough | True - if this pay component relates to a period of Furlough | ||
12. Furlough Amount Per Period | This needs to be completed if "Is Furlough" is ticked. This is the amount to be paid to the employee during each pay period whilst on Furlough. This overrides the contractual amount as set in step 7. | ||
13. Is Topped Up | True - if you are topping up to 100% and the figure entered in step 12 is 100% of contractual pay - the CJRS report will only give figures to claim 80%. | ||
14. Furlough Hours Per Day | Enter the Furlough Hours per Day as worked out using the guidance here.
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To calculate the number of usual hours for each pay period (or partial pay period):
This is how the system calculates hours in the week/month of furlough to calculate the hourly rate for furlough in that week/month. |
Once done, click Save.
Use the Field Help to assist with completion of the UK section of the pay component above |
Any annual leave (including public holiday) within the period will be treated as furloughed (so the CJRS report will try to claim 80% of it). |
To pay the worked days where the employee is being paid on a “flexible furlough” basis you will use the Enter one-off pay details function - click here for full instruction on how to Enter One Off Pay Details in Advance.
Only do this after you have set up the Furlough pay component.
When the payslip is processed, the furlough amount as set up in the Furlough Pay Component, will be reduced by the furlough hourly rate (Furlough amount per period / hours in period) x number of Flexible Furlough Hours
If an employee is permanently returning from furlough you will need to create a pay component as normal with their full salary. Do NOT tick “is furlough” on the new pay component and do NOT continue to use the Furlough pay component by editing and unticking "Is Furlough".
If you need to attach Payslip Details that have already been created it doesn't matter if they are different values (as some weekly staff, for example, will have different rates each week) then they need to be attached to the Pay Component via the "Employee Pay Component" field.
If you do this via CSV Import you must NOT trigger scripts and workflows as this may cause sourcing issues. ALWAYS download the records you are updating as a backup BEFORE performing the update. |
To review a report which can be used to enter information in to the CJRS portal (< 100 employees) or that can be uploaded (>100 employees) you can go to Payroll Administration > UK Reports > RTI Manager
Click "JRS Report Generation"
The header information will be presented in the download for entry or used in the query as follows:
End Date
For the most accurate, reconcilable results we recommend running the report once for each pay period |
Pay Period (if you pay in arrears, the date range must include the pay date and you should tick "Use Payslip Period Range for Furlough Calcs")
Due to period date restrictions the generator can only be run one frequency at a time, so if you have weekly and monthly frequencies please download them separately. You should consolidate them externally if necessary. |
You are able to manually edit the below fields (6-9) so that you can manipulate the report in line with the tapering of the grant employers can claim through the scheme from August 2020 onwards. |
Enter or upload your data to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
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