Timesheets

Recording Your Hours

You will be given weekly online timesheets for each role that you undertake through ERS, to record the hours that you work. You can access these by logging on to the candidate portal. Please check the dates on the timesheet to ensure that you enter your hours onto the correct weekly timesheet. If you submit incorrect hours on your timesheet, get in touch with ERS as soon as you can.

Please refer to the ‘How to Fill in Your Timesheets’ document for further information on how to use your timesheets. This document can be found under the ‘My Files’ tab of the candidate portal.

Deadlines

Your weekly deadline for submitting timesheets is Monday 12pm, for the previous week’s timesheet.

If you are missing any timesheets, please get in touch with your hiring manager and ask them to request the timesheets from ERS. Please see the Payment Schedule document below for details of our monthly pay dates, and the cut-off dates for being paid within each month. You will be paid for any hours submitted on timesheets after the cut-off date, in the subsequent payroll month.

P45s and Starter Checklists

P45s

A P45 is a certificate given to you when you leave employment. It has the details of your tax code, your total pay, and any tax you have paid in that year.

If you have a P45 from a previous job, please hand this in to us at the start of your employment with ERS so that your tax code remains the same. The P45 must be from the most recent job that you left, and from within the current tax year.

When you leave us, or if you are not paid by us for three consecutive months then our payroll provider will generate a P45 form for you and we will upload this to your profile. We will email you when this happens.

Starter Checklists

If you don’t have an up-to-date P45, or are currently employed elsewhere, then you must fill in a Starter Checklist form. This form provides your employer with the details needed to put you on the correct tax code. If you don’t submit a starter checklist or P45, you will be taxed at the basic rate.

The Starter Checklist form will be available to you through our candidate portal, once you receive an offer of work through ERS.

Leaving ERS for a New Job

If you have got a new job with another employer you will need to tell us so we can request a P45 form for you. You will be asked to give this form to your new employer so your tax code can be set up correctly to avoid overpayment of income tax.

You can request your P45 either by emailing us at recruit@lancaster.ac.uk or by calling us on 01524 510853. You will need to give us your full name and your final date of work with us.

Once we have requested your P45 it can take up to six weeks to arrive, so please ensure you submit your request as soon as possible. When we receive your P45 we will upload it to the ‘My Files’ section on your portal on our website, and we will email you confirmation when this has been done.

Pensions

Automatic enrolment

You will be auto enrolled into our Group Stakeholder Pension Scheme with Legal and General, if you meet the following requirements:

• You are paid £833 in a payroll month
• You are 22 or over
• You are under the state retirement age

If you are enrolled into our pension scheme, you will contribute 5% of your monthly pay to your pension pot, and Lancaster University will contribute 3%.

Opting in or out

Even if you are not auto enrolled, you may join the pension scheme if you wish. You may also opt out of the pension scheme of you have been auto enrolled.

For guidance on opting out of or into the pension scheme, please see our pension scheme information document, which will be available to download from the ‘files’ tab of your ERS account.