NMWM07025 - Types of work: confirming salaried hours work: flowchart

Pages NMWM07030 to NMWM07038 describe tests which help to determine whether a worker is working under a salaried hours contract and doing salaried hours work. They are summarised in the decision flowchart below. 

Flowchart to decide if salaried hours work applies

Question 1: 
Is the worker entitled under their contract to be paid: 

  • an annual salary, or 

  • an annual salary and performance bonus or salary premium (from 6 April 2020)? 
    (See NMWM07034) 

  • If Yes → Go to Question 3 

  • If No → Go to Question 2 

 

Question 2: 
Can the employer provide 
additional evidence of how the worker’s entitlement to an annual salary is calculated?
 

  • If Yes → Go to Question 3 

  • If No → Worker is not performing salaried hours work. Establish what other type of work is being performed. (See NMWM07010) 

 

Question 3: 
Does the worker’s contract provide a basic number of hours per year, or are the basic hours per year ascertainable?
 
(See NMWM07030) 

  • If Yes → Go to Question 5 

  • If No → Go to Question 4 

 

Question 4: 
Can the employer provide an explanation of how the basic hours are ascertained? 

  • If Yes → Go to Question 5 

  • If No → Worker is not performing salaried hours work. (See NMWM07010) 

 

Question 5: 
Is the only payment that a worker is entitled to receive for the basic hours:
 

  • annual salary (and performance bonus or salary premium from 6 April 2020)? 
    (See NMWM07034 & NMWM07036

  • If Yes → Go to Question 6 

  • If No → Worker is not performing salaried hours work. (See NMWM07010) 

 

Question 6: 
Is the worker paid either:
 

  • in equal monthly, weekly, two-weekly (from 6 April 2020), or four-weekly instalments, 

  • or varying monthly instalments resulting in equal quarterly amounts (unless a permitted variation applies)? 
    (See NMWM07038) 

  • If Yes → Worker is performing salaried hours work. (See NMWM07020) 

  • If No → Worker is not performing salaried hours work. (See NMWM07010)