Paying for time off work
Twenty days off that pay only seventeen and leave 625.72 € net, a 104.02 € maternity maximum that can be rebuilt to the cent, and a hundred hours of short-time working costing 117 € or 720 € depending on pay. Three costed modules. All the prose is free to read; the case study and quizzes are sold.
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By the end of this course, you can…
These outcomes are the modules' own: the promise cannot say anything the course does not teach.
- Compute the daily reference wage of a monthly-paid employee.
- Apply the cap on the salary taken into account.
- Remember the rate of the daily benefit and the waiting period.
- Place the maximum length of payment.
- Cost the social levies on the benefits.
- Remember the leave durations by rank of the child.
- Tell apart the durations applying to multiple births.
- Take up the daily reference wage computation and its cap.
- Apply the flat rate deducted for contributions.
- Rebuild the bounds of the daily benefit by calculation.
- Tell the allowance paid to the employee from the grant received by the employer.
- Remember the two rates and their respective floors.
- Place the hourly caps and where they come from.
- Compute the employer's net cost per idle hour.
- Know the annual quota of payable hours.
The programme, module by module
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- Module 18 minFree — no accountTwenty days off, seventeen paid, 625.72 € netWhat you will be able to do
- Compute the daily reference wage of a monthly-paid employee.
- Apply the cap on the salary taken into account.
- Remember the rate of the daily benefit and the waiting period.
- Place the maximum length of payment.
- Cost the social levies on the benefits.
- Module 29 minIncluded in the full courseThe 104.02 € maximum is no accident of roundingWhat you will be able to do
- Remember the leave durations by rank of the child.
- Tell apart the durations applying to multiple births.
- Take up the daily reference wage computation and its cap.
- Apply the flat rate deducted for contributions.
- Rebuild the bounds of the daily benefit by calculation.
- Module 38 minIncluded in the full courseA hundred hours idle: 117 € of net cost, or 720 €What you will be able to do
- Tell the allowance paid to the employee from the grant received by the employer.
- Remember the two rates and their respective floors.
- Place the hourly caps and where they come from.
- Compute the employer's net cost per idle hour.
- Know the annual quota of payable hours.
What you take away
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Participant handout (PDF)
PDF
- Learning objectives (3)
- Key figures (3)
- Mistakes to avoid (3)
- Official sources (3)
Exercise workbook (Word)
Word
- Learning objectives (3)
- Key figures (3)
- Mistakes to avoid (3)
- Official sources (3)
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