This seminar is a comprehensive introduction to the payroll function for:

¦New staff with no or limited exposure to payroll and junior payroll staff
¦Practitioners returning to the payroll field
¦Other professionals who have functional responsibility for payroll
¦Suppliers providing payroll services to corporate customers.
Participants learn about processing and reporting requirements and the payroll practitioner’s key role in government statutory withholding and remittance.

The curriculum covers:

¦Introduction to payroll
¦Defining payroll
¦Setting up a new payroll
¦Controls and security
¦Earnings and deductions
¦Methods of payment
¦Processing a payroll
¦Required information
¦Employee-employer relationship
¦Introduction to taxable benefits and allowances
¦Calculating and producing a pay
¦Statutory deductions
¦Employment/Labour Standards
¦Hours of work
¦Overtime
¦Pregnancy/parental leave
¦Statement of wages
¦Statutory holidays
¦Vacation
¦Government reporting
¦Canada Revenue Agency remittances
¦Revenu Québec remittances
¦Provincial healthcare and education taxes and remittances
¦Employment Insurance premium reduction
¦Record of Employment overview
¦Workers’ compensation
¦Records retention
¦Federal and provincial requirements