# Bury Council says that from April 2023 it stopped manually calculating sickness and other absence pay, automating the calculation in iTrent and decreasing payroll staff's manual calculations

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Date: 2023-04-01 · Stage: Deployment
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## Scope

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council's own Cabinet report, seeking approval to renew its iTrent HR and payroll system contract, says the council moved away from manually calculating sickness and other absence entitlements from April 2023 (the report gives the month, not a day), decreasing the manual calculations payroll staff must do and assuring consistency of sickness pay. It is one UK local authority's self-report in a 2024 contract-renewal paper, not an audited measurement: it names no number of hours or staff affected, and iTrent is used by 8 of 11 Greater Manchester authorities, so this does not show the change is universal or that any payroll role was cut.

## Source

- Bury Metropolitan Borough Council — Cabinet report, Renewal of the Council's HR & Payroll Management System Contract (Part A), 17 April 2024 — https://councildecisions.bury.gov.uk/documents/s39611/Renewal%20of%20the%20Councils%20HR%20Payroll%20Management%20System%20Contract%20Part%20A.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

A UK council's own payroll operation moved a calculation task (sickness and other absence pay) from manual work to its payroll system.

## What it does not show yet

A council's self-report in a contract-renewal paper, not an audited measurement; it names no hours or headcount affected, and does not say any payroll role was cut.

## How to verify it yourself

Ask your payroll department which pay-affecting calculations, if any, still require a person to work them out by hand.


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