SSP Qualifying Days

If you have selected the Use Full SSP Processing on the Payroll - Utilities - Set Options form, you will be able to maintain SSP qualifying day patterns and store these as profiles to assign to employees. There are three levels at which SSP qualifying days patterns can be defined:

• When you select the Use Full SSP Processing option, a default for the company or group is automatically set up. This is based on a five-day working week. You can amend this to represent the default pattern for the company or group. (You can have different defaults for each payroll group if you are using multiple pay frequencies.)

• You can also specify a default qualifying days pattern on an employee profile record. Employee profiles are maintained using the Employee Profiles command on the Maintenance menu. If a qualifying days pattern is associated with an employee profile, it overrides the company or group default specified on the Payroll Options form. To create the pattern you want to assign to an employee profile, you use the Qualifying Days Profile command on the Maintenance submenu. Each profile has its own code, description and start date. The pattern determines which days of the working week qualify for SSP and if this varies on a week-by-week basis, the profile can cover a particular number of weeks sufficient to determine the pattern applicable.

• Finally, you can define a pattern that is specific to an individual employee. This overrides the default for the profile, if one exists. Again, you need to create the pattern you want using the Qualifying Days Profile command on the Maintenance submenu. You then assign the pattern using the SSP Qualifying Days command on the SSP/ SMP menu displayed when you select the SSP/SMP command on the Action menu associated with the Payroll Processing form.

You can assign more than one profile to an employee provided the start dates differ.