1. Administering Local Government Pension Scheme for the United Kingdom
  2. Stringer Days Setup and Management

Stringer Days Setup and Management

Stringer Days apply during a period of sickness.

Workers are entitled to:

  • Fet holiday pay
  • Build up holiday entitlement during certain types of leave, such as maternity, paternity, or adoption leave
  • Build up holiday entitlement while off work sick
  • Request holiday at the same time as sick leave
APP does not apply on a ‘Stringer day’ if the pensionable pay the member receives is greater than the APP. A Stringer day is an annual leave day paid during a period of sick leave.
Note: APP remains the same for the period of absence after the Stringer day.

Element Setup

  1. Create an element with Primary Classification as 'Absences' and Secondary Classification as 'Sickness'.
  2. Select ‘Accrual Balances and Absences’ in response to the question What type of absence information do you want transferred to payroll?
  3. For Stringer Days, a new lookup value to define an absence type is available. Select Stringer Days.

Absence Definitions Setup

Absence Plans:

  • As Stringer Days is similar to Vacation, create the plan as ‘Accrual Plan’
  • Assign the Plan UOM, Plan Term, Eligibility (if required), Entitlements, and the Entries and Balances
  • The absence plan should be created to allow concurrent entitlement.
  • If you want to transfer Vacation Days to Stringer Days use the Entries and Balances tab on the Absence Plans page of your Vacation plan to enable the ‘Balance transfer across plans’ accrual plan adjustments. This should allow HR specialists to adjust plan balances on the Manage Absence Records and Entitlements page. To adjust, HR specialists can select an option on the Enrollments and Adjustments menu of the Plan Participation section.

Absence Types:

  • The Stringer Days Absence Type should be created as a Generic Absence, with the Legislative Grouping Code set to 'UK Stringer Days'.
  • In the Absence Type for Stringer Days, open the display features and select Enable Concurrency.
  • In the Absence Type for Statutory Sickness, open Action Items and add the certificate Stringer Days.
    • For Stringer Days, there is a new seeded ORA_HRX_GB_STRINGER_DAYS certificate.
    Note: You need to create ORA_HRX_GB_STRINGER_DAYS certificate at the Case level for the SSP Plan, and ORA_HRX_GB_STRINGER_DAYS certificate at the absence entry level for the Occupational Sickness Plan, if you want to stop all sickness payments during Stringer Days absence.

Absence Entries:

  • When entering the Stringer Days absence and adjusting from the Vacation plan, HR specialists should be able to select an option on the Enrollments and Adjustments menu of the Plan Participation section and do the following:
    1. Under Plan Participation, select the vacation plan and then click the Enrollments and Adjustments list.
    2. Click the option for transfer of balance and add the effective date, the plan to which the balance has to be transferred and the number of days to be transferred.
    3. Run the accrual process. The balance of the Stringer Day plan is updated.
  • Attach the absence records for Sickness as well as Stringer Days.
  • Navigate to the Absence Case for the sickness absence and add the certificate to pause the statutory sick pay, or absence entry level to pause occupational sick pay.
    Note:
    • When adding the certificate to the person, ensure that the dates correspond to the Stringer Days absence. Otherwise, calculations will be inaccurate.
    • Where there are multiple assignments, the same number of Stringer Days will be expected for each assignment.

Other Requirements

Ensure that the Pension Element’s Balance Eligible compensation is fed with the absence’s Entitlement Result, that is both sickness and stringer day entitlement results.