Specialized Online Training: Basics of Construction Payroll
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Construction Payroll Basics – including Construction Payroll Handbook

The special features of payroll accounting in construction companies

750,00 €
per participant, plus statutory VAT.

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DESCRIPTION

Construction wage accounting is and remains one of the most challenging payroll calculations overall. Our online training offers solid knowledge in a compact and well-structured manner: Practice exercises for self-assessment help you build and strengthen your expertise in construction wage accounting.

CONTENTS
  • Introduction to collective agreement law
    • General binding effect of collective agreements
    • Collective agreement wages / salaries / training allowances
    • Collective agreement and statutory minimum wages
    • Travel time compensation
  • Social funds of the main construction trade
    • Contribution collection procedure
    • Top-up compensation procedure
  • Holiday regulations
    • Holiday accounting for manual workers (including minimum holiday pay)
    • Apprentices and employees in the final training year
    • Employees
    • Holiday compensation / indemnities
  • Vocational training in the construction trade
  • Additional pension and asset formation
  • Collective agreement working hours in the construction trade
    • Summer and winter working hours
    • Flexibility with working time compensation
    • Time savings accounts / compensation accounts
  • Weather- and order-related work stoppages
    • Seasonal short-time work (including practical examples)
    • Participation in the winter employment levy
    • Financing from the first hour of downtime
    • Consideration of existing working time credits
    • Avoidance of subsidy-damaging payout of working time credits
    • Reimbursements from the Federal Employment Agency
    • Granting of additional expense and subsidy winter pay
  • Short-time work
  • Work away from home
    • Statutory regulations
    • Collective agreement regulations
  • 13th monthly income
  • Documentation obligations
    • Immediate notifications
    • Minimum wage
    • Customs inspections
  • Basics of social insurance
  • Basics of tax law
  • What does a manual worker cost?
TYPE OF COURSE

Professional online training

ADDITIONAL SERVICES
  • Knowledge test for self-assessment
  • Course accompanying materials
  • Participant certificate
COURSE DURATION

Online training, consisting of 15 units
Access duration 60 days from booking confirmation to the learning unit in the learning world of the BRZ Academy

PARTICIPANT GROUP

Construction wage clerks with and without personnel responsibility, apprentices as well as newcomers and returnees who want to fundamentally familiarize themselves with construction wage accounting.

COURSE GOAL

The online training Construction Wage Basics prepares you for payroll accounting in the construction company. With the help of exercises, you check your knowledge growth.

 

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Please use modern browsers such as Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome for using the learning environment, as older browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer may not display current websites correctly or may show errors.

Attention: A speaker or headphones are required to participate. Participants who want to actively follow the exercises need a second screen and access to their own BRZ software environment.

IMPORTANT NOTES ON WEBINARS AND ONLINE TRAINING
WEB SEMINAR

Data Protection/Technology
The web seminar will be conducted using Microsoft 365 Teams. If you do not use Teams, the meeting can simply be accessed through your internet browser (e.g., Chrome). In this case, you do not need a Teams license.

Communication between participants and speakers takes place verbally and via chat function. By clicking the participation link, you accept that other participants in the discussion can see the name you provided and – if you activate your camera – your image will also be transmitted.
A speaker or headphones are required for participation. Participants who want to actively follow the exercises need a second screen.

Rules of Conduct
To ensure a productive meeting for all involved, we ask for fair play and adherence to some proven conversation rules:

  1. Please mute your microphone when you do not have a contribution to make.
  2. Please use the "Raise Hand" function to signal that you wish to speak. The speaker can then establish an order and give you the floor.

USE OF THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT 

Access to the Learning Environment
Access to BRZ online training and BRZ web seminars is personalized.
This means: A personal email address is required to participate. When participating in BRZ e-learning for the first time, you will receive an email with your personal access data to the BRZ Academy learning environment – consisting of a username and an automatically generated password for the first login.

At this first login, you will be asked to replace the password with your own personal password. If you participate in further BRZ online training or BRZ web seminars, your access data to the BRZ Academy learning environment will be saved.

You will receive a second email with information about your registration for the course you booked.

If you ever forget your password, you can reset it and have a new temporary password sent to you. To do this, please visit the website https://akademie.brz.eu .


ONLY FOR ONLINE TRAINING

From the day of registration, your booked course can be started, paused, and repeated for 30 or 60 days, depending on the course.