Solutions/Payroll & statutory/Plant payroll
Manufacturing
Plant payroll
Operators and office staff were paid on the local payday. Social charges and overtime sat on the same payroll.
Project background
The plant already employed operators and office staff locally. Pay and overtime lived in a spreadsheet; social charges were a second file. Payday and filing dates did not match.
Payroll put attendance, overtime, social charges, and wages on one local file, paid on payday, filed on the statutory clock.
Profile
- Shopfloor pay follows shift and overtime rules — not a monthly lump that hides extra hours.
- Office pay follows local monthly salary and statutory extras.
- Joiners and leavers hit the same month’s file, not a quarterly catch-up.
- A headquarters pack is not a local filing.
Search timeline
First gate
Take-on in 2 weeks
Second gate
First full monthly cycle
Headcount, banks, and social-charge registrations were checked in two weeks. The next month ran the first full pay-and-file cycle. Overtime rules sat in that month, not a later restatement.
CVs presented
Presented
86
Landed
86
Payroll covered 86 people. These figures are people on file, not a search list.
What we took from it
Once payday and filing dates matched, the plant stopped running two files. Overtime sat on that month’s payslip and can be checked person by person.
A spreadsheet cannot hold shifts and social charges at once. Writing the rules into the take-on beats explaining variances later.
For the next brief: headcount and overtime rules before the take-on month. Do not change the rules in payday week.