Pay type "stat holiday pay" with the employees regular rate somehow changed to "stat pay - hourly premium" with the employees time and a half rate. How do I change this?

Hey there, donna151.

Welcome to the QuickBooks Community! At this time, there isn't a way to disable the stat pay hourly premium since this is mandatory. However, this article will help make sense of Stat pay - Average daily wage as well as Stat pay - Hourly premium. 

If you have any other questions, feel free to reach back out here.

It is a complete mess up with this change.  You can see many posts on this and how dangerous it was for many companies that overpaid their staff and how it has created more work for the payroll admins and now does not properly manage insurable hours

Sorry - I did not know I was replying to you!  I will try to figure out how to move it to Amanda's response

Hi Amanda,

Thank you for your response but this is not the issue.  Many people have commented on this disaster that QB has created.

October 26 paystub for one of my employees stated "Stat Holiday Pay" with her hourly rate of $31.50 and ytd earnings of $2,016.  This was correct at 8 hours per day, 8 stats year to date (64 hours paid).

November 4 paystub for the same employee stated "Stat pay - hourly premium" with an hourly rate of $47.25 and ytd earnings of $2,016.  This was incorrect as it correlates to 42.67 hours suggesting I owe her another 21.33 hours.

Of course this is not correct - my employee did not work on the stat therefor I do not owe her time and a half for anything.  I correctly paid her her appropriate rate and stat average, for some reason QB has decided to change an ACTIVE PAYCODE ACROSS ALL COMPANIES which is absolutely ludicrous.  Not only have many people missed this change (because no one said anything despite oodles of technology to do so) but QB has made the change in such a way as to confuse the heck out of employees.

The "solution" is this new "stat pay - average daily rate" thing which is also useless as stat pay is insurable for earnings and HOURS.  This change has rendered QB useless for issuing ROEs now as all you can enter is a dollar amount, not hours.

I am not clear, similar to many other individuals, why QB made this change.  If people were concerned about needing a paycode for stat pay - hours worked on a stat then why not just create a brand new paycode for that?  To me that would make sense.

Please let us know when this error will be fixed.  As an accountant, I am fully aware of the stat rules so please do not send that link again.

Thank you

It is not mandatory to pay staff time and a half when they are not not working this day, and receiving a paid day at regular wage, when can I expect this change to be terminated with the option to opt out of this "premium" nonsense?

Thanks for the reply. I read the article, but it still says stat holiday daily average, the hours are insurable. Where can we put hours under stat holiday daily average?

I need this too - hours entry for stats, not daily average dollar amount. Who the heck thought this was a good idea?

This is exactly what happened to me today. Its a good thing I double check my payroll before submitting. Did you figure out what to do? I am just adding the daily average amount. Hope that is correct.

Hi SKM9,

Thanks for joining us here.  

When you run payroll, you'll enter the dollar amount that you calculate for your employee into the average daily wage field. This will ensure the amount it's accurate.  Whereas, when you enter the number of hours your employee worked on the statutory holiday in the hourly premium column, it will calculate at 1.5 as noted here.

If you have any other questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach back out.  We are here for you!

Trish - this is incorrect information.  If an employee does not work on a stat holiday and they qualify for stat pay you need to enter the HOURS and the pay as it is insurable.

Donna

to Trish: please see Donna's reply. Both the amount and the hours under average daily stat pay are insured under EI rules. Therefore, hours need to be entered.

Mei - I just spoke with someone at QBO.  They are changing the stat pay code back to the way it was.

To Donna, 

Thanks. Finally  some good news before Christmas and new year stat pay. 

Hi Donna, did they give you a date for when this might happen?? Thx

No, sorry, not a specific date.  I think he said in the next few weeks but it was pretty vague.

Thanks Donna! I actually just chatted with them and they are hoping for "updates will be sent out hopefully earlier next week".

Hi,

I have to submit payroll today, if i enter the average daily wage, how would QB add this to to employees payroll, when they are changing back to the format before?

Good question. There is lots up in the air at this moment. I just looked at the paystub from the payroll i just submitted. It is very confusing!! All previous Stat pay is now lumped under Stat pay - hourly premium and the hourly rate is showing as 1.5x. The employees hours are showing as 72, as opposed to 80 hours. And the daily average wage shows in a new row almost like a reimbursable expense or lump sum payment. Ugh. 

I hope QuickBooks ASAP:

• reverts the Stat pay - premium hourly pay type back to the Stat pay as it was before 
• converts any pay using the Stat pay - daily wage to hours and adds it to the previous Stat pay YTD (so insurable hours are correct) 

I'm imploring QuickBooks to roll back this change as soon as possible -- it's important that this is done before the holiday season with multiple stat holiday days.