Employed in two places at same time

chrisbur

Regarding the possibility of having an overlap of two payments in one tax month. A tax month starts on the 6th of each month and ends on the 5th of the following month so if your last payday from your old employer and the first payday from your new employer fall within this period you will have an overlap and get 13 paydays in this tax year. One of these will have to be without a tax allowance.
This may well happen even if you do not change your leaving date.

w00519772

I spoke to HR yesterday on the telephone and I was informed that I would be paid two days annual leave for September if I specify my last day as 06/10/2016 i.e. my last day of work is 16/09/2016 and I am paid until 06/10/2016. They were very vague so I just want to make sure.

The contract of employment says: "When an employee leaves the company; their holiday entitlement for that year will be re-calculated on a pro-rota basis for every completed calendar month they have worked and should usually be taken prior to their leaving date"

Is my leaving date 16/09/16 or 06/10/16? If it is 16/09/16 then I believe the contract is stating that I am not entitled to holiday pay for September.

Dazed_and_confused

I think the leaving date can be pretty much any date your employer chooses.

If you look at the HMRC guidance for employers the date of leaving is conspicuous by the absence of any guidance!

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-payroll-information-to-report-to-hmrc#employee-information

w00519772

Dazed_and_confused wrote: »

I think the leaving date can be pretty much any date your employer chooses.

If you look at the HMRC guidance for employers the date of leaving is conspicuous by the absence of any guidance!

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/what-payroll-information-to-report-to-hmrc#employee-information

If my last day (after adding annual leave) is: 06/10 then I should be paid the two days annual leave for September. Is that right?

booksurr

normally there are 2 bits of jargon used when someone ceases employment:

1 the last working day: that is exactly what is says, the last day you attend work and err do any work

2. the last day in service: that is the date at which your employment contract ceases, and is the date to which all your pay is calculated.

As appears to be the case with you, if your contract says holidays must be "taken" rather than being paid as part of your final pay packet then the last day in service includes your holidays. So in your case your LWD is 16/9 but your LDS is 6/10 because you technically ceased employment at the end of September and then have the residue of your holiday entitlement to add on to that date, hence it takes you over to 6th Oct and includes your 2 additional days holiday entitlement because you were still "on the books" for the whole of sept and so accrued the full 2 days holiday for that month

I have done exactly what you ask several times, ie I have started work at my new employer before the old employer's LDS date has passed, and so I have had at least a few days where I am being paid twice for each day. As I say, it is a relatively normal thing to happen