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Top Tips: Setting up a Payroll
So you have taken the plunge and set up your own business and started employing people (see our other ‘top tips’ articles on how best to do this), now you will need to have the capability to pay them appropriately and meet your Pensions Automatic...
Job Roles That Can Help Utilise Your Transferable Skills After the Military
There’s a large misconception that there aren’t transferable skills that can help military personnel when they leave the service. Finding a career can appear difficult to some considering the how many of your years are dedicated to the service....
Great North Run 2018
Director running in aid of St Barnabas Hospice Trust (Lincolnshire) It’s that time of year again when Adam Davey is donning his trainers on 9th September to run in the world’s largest half marathon, the Great North Run, for the 14th time. Having...
Top Tips: Recruitment
Hiring the right employee is a challenging process. Hiring the wrong employee is expensive, costly to your business and time-consuming. Hiring the right employee, on the other hand: Pays you back in employee productivity, a...
Top Tips: Employment Contracts and Policies
Time flies from those early days when you set-up your business and take-on your first employee; but have you paused to think about whether you have appropriate governance and compliance in place around the employment issues facing you now and in...
Get Ready for the World Cup
The World Cup kicks off in just a few days and as always, excitement is mounting around the trying to predict the likely winner, who’ll get the golden boot, what will be the outcome of the inevitable penalty shoot-out, etc. At work it can be great...
Pensions Regulator begins spot checks in East Midlands to ensure Auto Enrolment compliance
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has begun carrying out spot checks across the East Midlands to make sure employers are complying with their pension duties. Inspection teams will visit dozens of businesses in the East Midlands this month to check...
Tax-free childcare roll out
Tax-free childcare roll out The implementation of Tax-Free Childcare, the new government scheme to help working parents with the cost of childcare, is being rolled out to eligible parents in stages. The scheme first made its debut in April 2017 and...
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How to keep employees motivated
How to keep employees motivated If people believe that the organisation they work for values their contribution and wants to involve them in important things, they are much more likely to feel motivated. This usually means seeking, listening to, and responding to...
Government publishes new zero hours contract regulations and guidance
Government publishes new zero hours contract regulations and guidance The Exclusivity Terms in Zero Hours Contracts (Redress) Regulations 2015 have been published in draft form and laid before Parliament. Section 27A(3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 provides that...
Can Early Intervention Reduce Length of Absence?
Early intervention services can reduce the length of long-term sickness absences by 17%, according to research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), commissioned by employee benefits provider Unum. Its Benefits of Early Intervention report, which...
Auto-enrolment compliance notices quadruple
Figures from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) show 469 auto-enrolment compliance notices were issued to employers between July and September 2015. A compliance notice is issued under section 35 of the Pensions Act 2008 to remedy a contravention of one or more...
Shared parental leave and pay scheme to be extended to working grandparents?
Shared parental leave and pay scheme to be extended to working grandparents The Government has announced that it is planning to extend the current scheme of shared parental leave and pay to include working grandparents by 2018. A consultation is expected to be...
Are you aware of the increase in living wage rate?
The living wage rate has increased by 40p an hour from £7.85 to £8.25 from 2nd November 2015. The London living wage has risen by 25p an hour from £9.15 to £9.40. The increase in the UK living wage rate, which is calculated according to the cost of living, will result...
Harness the power of Social Media to drive your Employee Benefits Scheme
Social media has wide uses for employee benefits, but employers are just starting to realise its value as an engagement and communication channel. But there are several top tips to consider for harnessing its power: 1. Use internal networks There are a range of...
What makes a good boss?
What makes a great boss? This list of things managers can do to make employees happy, culled from a recent survey of office workers, suggest would-be leaders would do well to focus on the freebies rather than the theory. The top ten bad things managers can do to make...
More companies to ditch yearly performance reviews – PwC
More companies 'to ditch yearly performance reviews' – PwC More large companies could scrap annual performance reviews in a bid to improve employee engagement, according to a new report by PwC. The firm's 2015 Performance Management Research, which surveyed 100...
One in five employers will not seek Auto Enrolment advice
One in five employers will not seek Auto Enrolment advice The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published guidance to help the 1.3m small and micro businesses preparing for auto-enrolment find a good quality scheme, after 20% said they will not seek advice. Its recent...