I have a payroll client which is run 4 weekly. An employee leaves in week 2 and is paid at that time (2 weeks early) so I did a 'dummy' run to get the net pay. The ex employee is now complaining that the payslip is dated by the payroll run and not the leaving date. The P45 has the actual leaving date.
Does it matter that the payslip has the payroll run date and not the leaving date?
Don't worry, this is absolutely fine. The pay date (normally) sets the tax week or month number for which the payment is due. The leaving date actaully bears no relation to how the tax or NI is calculated as stat deductions are worked out when the payment is made. All employees on that payroll will have the same paydate on the payslip regardless if they started or left in that pay period.
