When you pay one of your employees with a statutory payment, you can adjust their normal payments.

NOTE: Do you use NHS pensions as part of the Pensions Module? If so, there are specific steps to take to record pensionable hours and reduce the salary for an employee who's on statutory leave. Find out more in the article NHS Pensions - common questions.

When you process statutory payments, there are multiple options how to process normal pay alongside this.

Depending on the amount or type of normal pay you need to process, there are different ways you can process this in Sage 50 Payroll. 

Process normal pay, with the statutory payment included

Your company policy may be that your employees receive their normal gross pay when on statutory leave. 

To reclaim entitlements while ensuring full pay, combine statutory payment with additional pay to match the employee's normal gross salary. You can process this using the ▼ Make Up Basic feature

Pay only for the hours worked, along with the statutory payment

This occurs, for example, if an employee was off sick for a week, but they worked for the remaining part of the month. You need to process their statutory sick pay plus their normal hourly rate for the hours they did work.

1. Enter the statutory leave as normal.
2. Go to Employee, select the required employee.
3. Select Payroll then Enter Payments.
4. For the required payment types, change the number in the Hours/No column to the number of hours worked then press Tab.

Pay the statutory payment only

For example, a weekly paid employee is on paternity leave for two weeks. As they've done no work in the pay period, they're due to receive the statutory paternity pay only.

1. Go to Employee, select the required employee.
2. Select Payroll then Enter Payments.
3. For all of the payment types change the number in the Hours/No column to zero.