Pay

Unless you are at the top of your grade, then you may be due an increment, which will be paid on 1 April.

Casual employees do not get incremental pay rises.

In exceptional circumstances, a maximum of five days leave can be carried forward to the next holiday year.

Absence through sickness is not normally regarded as justification for carrying leave over.

Details can be found in our annual leave entitlement policy.

As long as you have a minimum of 25 years' local authority service, 20 years of which is with Shropshire Council or any of the preceeding district and borough councils, then you don't need to apply for this award as the process will be triggered automatically when you leave.

The Employment Services team will write to you with further information.

When an employee works overtime or additional hours, or receives other pay allowances on a regular basis, it should be reflected in holiday pay. Please refer to the Casual Worker and Additional Hours Guidelines.

This will be the case where the hours worked meets the definition, of being ‘regular and part of an emerging or sufficiently settled and identifiable pattern of work’, for example this may be weekly, monthly or a quarterly basis.

Examples include:
1. An employee who has worked regular overtime every week for the past three months. Periods of sickness or holiday would not affect eligibility.
2. An employee who has consistently worked overtime to meet seasonal demand in the service area, for example an employee has normally worked 2 hours overtime every week between 1 December and 31 March.
3. An employee who has consistently worked a regular pattern of overtime/ standby or been on call in accordance with rota responsibilities.

When regular additional hours are worked, if it is claimed on Timecode T005R holiday pay will automatically be added and paid at a rate of 12.07%.

Employees can view their pension contribution rate on their payslip.  

To access your payslip, please log into the ERP and navigate to;
Your Employment > Personnel Information

Once this screen has loaded up, click on the blue paper clip in the top right hand corner of the screen.

To see previous payslips easily, at the top of the new screen, Change view to ‘List’ and click in the relevant pay slip. 

Employee contribution bands

See Pension fund website for the current rates.

1. When is the pay award effective from?

2. I am leaving before the pay award will be processed (November 2024) but I believe I am entitled to it, will it be paid to me automatically?

3. My payment details have changed but as a leaver I can’t log on to ERP to change them.

4. I am not on an NJC Grade, will I receive a pay award?

5. What is the pay award increase?

6. I am on the Soulbury Pay Scale, will I receive a pay award in 2024?

7. I have paid Student Loan this month, but don’t usually earn enough to pay it, can I get a refund?

8. I have a Court Order payment on my payslip and have paid more on my Court Order than usual.

9. I don’t usually pay National Insurance and I have because of the pay award.

10. I have paid more tax this month than usual.

11. I am in receipt of Universal Credit and the pay award has affected my claims.

12. I have a Bought Annual Leave deduction on my record, will the pay award affect the payments?

13. I am in receipt of an honorarium, will it increase/decrease?

14. If when the pay award is applied, I move into a higher band for Pension payments, will this be automatically applied?

15. I am on notice and due to take Redundancy on a date before the Pay Award is paid and have received a calculation before it was agreed, will I receive a new calculation based on the new rates of pay?

16. There is a sick absence calculation on my payslip, but I have not been sick for a long time.

17. I have been on maternity, adoption or surrogacy leave during the time that the pay award has been backdated to, why are there manual calculations on my payslip?

18. I have worked additional hours at a non NJC rate, will the pay award be applied to these hours?

19. I have worked and claimed for sleep ins as part of my role, will the rate change?

April 2024

NB: hourly rate is calculated by dividing annual salary by 52.143 weeks and then divided by 37 hours the working week, then rounded to nearest 1p.

Payroll will not be able to accept any work or tasks authorised, requested or submitted after the monthly deadline date, and any late work received after the deadline will be processed for the next month’s payroll.

Please ensure authorisation is done in the ERP in advance of the payroll deadline (if this is applicable) and check your notifications to ensure that these have not been rejected due to errors – rejected forms will need to be resubmitted and authorised in line with the above deadlines.

Monthly deadlines for the authorisation of timesheet and expense claims only is the 6th of the month, which applies to both 20th and 31st payroll.

Corporate payroll

Payroll deadline is the 2nd of each month (not including timesheet and expense claims, see above for the deadline), until further notice.

31st / Education payroll

Payroll deadline is the 9th of each month, including PR28 submission but not including ERP timesheet and expense claims (see above for the deadline), until further notice.

This award is only applicable to those employees over the age of 55 who are retiring or are leaving the council through redundancy.

Employees must have completed a minimum of 25 years of local authority service, of which 20 years must have been in the employment of Shropshire Council or its preceding district and borough councils.

Service with any other local authority or the National Health Service, from which the employee has statutorily transferred from or been appointed to Shropshire Council as a result of statutory amalgamation or reorganisation, will also count.

Employees can choose from a list of approved suppliers, a durable personal article, at a cost not exceeding £150 exclusive of VAT. The retailer will invoice Shropshire Council direct.  Please note the cost of the long service award is met from the team budget.