CareFree can provide guidance on holiday pay where workers may be on a zero hour contract. It does this by looking back x amount of weeks (government guidelines state 13 weeks) to figure out the suitable pay for a carer. That pay can then be added as an addition and adjustment which will go on the wage sheet for that carer.

Lets first get access to the pay calculator, from the tools drop down menu select “Holiday Calculator”:

This will open the main pay calculator screen:

1) Select the carer from the drop down list for who you want to work out holiday pay.

2) This section allows you to tweak when it will work out the thirteen week period from, you can also change the amount of weeks to take into consideration, but as already stated the government guideline is thirteen weeks.

3) Using the tick boxes, select the calls you typically pay your carers for. Us the tip below for help with this.

4) Select the correct criteria for your company here to alter how the table is presented below.

7,5) Click the “Calculate button to display information in the table (5)

6) This panel holds the average values for each column. This figure is presented by the calculation “total hours added up in the column divided by the days”