April 1, 2019
The new UK tax year is coming! But why does it run from 6th April – why not January to January? Well, it all started a very long time ago when – in England and Ireland – the New Year started on 25th March. It was known as Lady Day to commemorate the angel Gabriel’s…
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March 27, 2019
Calculating holiday entitlement for full time employees is relatively straight-forward. But what about when an employee starts or leaves part way through the holiday year, and what about part time employees? That’s when calculating holiday entitlement gets much more difficult… But don’t worry – to help you through this arithmetic exercise, we’ve compiled the following…
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March 13, 2019
The British Retail Consortium (the trade body for shops and online retailers) recently called on HMRC to halt National Minimum Wage enforcement claiming that the current system is no longer fit for purpose. The current National Minimum Wage (NMW) provisions date from 1998 and have recently celebrated their 20th birthday. I’m sure some of you…
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November 30, 2018
Picture this. Your business has made the headlines. And so have you. Have you won some kind of SME business of the year award?! Erm… well, no actually. You’re in the news for breaking the law and exploiting your employees. Because you didn’t know about the changes to national minimum wage… It’s a PR nightmare.…
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October 24, 2018
We’re very excited to be back at the CIPD Annual Conference & Exhibition, on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th November Free to attend, this year’s CIPD exhibition is taking place at Manchester Central and promises to be bigger and better, with the UK’s best HR suppliers exhibiting. The exhibition allows HR professionals to test-drive the…
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July 28, 2018
The TUC has published new analysis showing 2.2m employees are losing out on their holiday entitlement each year, with over half receiving no paid holiday at all. 9.2% of female workers and 7.2% of male workers miss out on nearly £3bn in unpaid annual leave by UK businesses according to their analysis, which draws on unpublished data…
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July 20, 2018
According to a new statement from HMRC, 10 per cent of all small businesses in the UK are under investigation – equivalent to more than half a million at any one time. HMRC recently told the Treasury select committee that it is going after small businesses to reclaim £34bn in tax that it was unable…
View PostJuly 9, 2018
We have released a host of updates to keep our Integrated Payroll & HR Software ahead of the curve and help make GDPR compliance easy. Here are the biggest enhancements that will support you. Whether you’re a small, medium, or large business – since 25 May 2018 all ‘controllers’ and ‘processors’ of personal data are…
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April 24, 2018
Payroll is one of those essential business processes that add zero additional value to your business. In fact, the only outcome you can have from running your own payroll is neutral (when people get paid what they expect) and bad – when they don’t. With all the paperwork, pressure, and risks involved if things go…
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March 16, 2018
With the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force on 25 May 2018, many employers may be worried that they do not fully understand all the new rules surrounding the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about an individual they hold and process. The new legislation will have a huge impact on employers, particularly on…
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March 6, 2018
This January a revolution took place, taking power away from the financial elites and giving it to the everyman. It’s a big deal, a major event, but with the Mainstream Media © battling the onslaught of fake news, it’s also something you could very easily have missed: The launch of Open Banking. This is a…
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February 2, 2018
Six years after the launch of pensions auto enrolment, February finally marked the last staging date for the UK’s smallest employers to enrol their employees into a workplace pension scheme. According to figures from the Pensions Regulator, one million employers have now enrolled their employees into a pension through auto enrolment. The government-led programme launched…
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