Purpose

There is widespread non-compliance with the Holidays Act 2003 within government and this often requires significant upgrades to payroll systems.

Non-compliance is driven by several factors, including:

• difficulties interpreting the Holidays Act 2003
• problems aligning variable work patterns
• complex employment agreements with the Holidays Act 2003.

The programme team will support payroll practitioners to improve payroll practices.

Who and what’s involved

The GCDO will collate and facilitate consistent application of calculations and other related payroll and employee terms via the All-of-Government Payroll Working Group.

These good practices will inform the approach taken by agencies in their payroll and the approach taken by the programme for all-of-government contracts with payroll providers.

Next steps

The programme team will:

• co-ordinate with other government agencies regarding payroll-affected policies or legislation
• continue to facilitate the Payroll Working Group
• continue to promote consistency in government payroll practice.

Deliverables

The deliverables from this workstream are likely to include:

• continued facilitation of agency wide payroll focus groups
• documentation of payroll related discussions and common approach.

Agencies can use these tools as part of their selection and implementation payroll systems.