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Members of the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP) have outlined their recommendations to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) about the proposed reforms to sick notes.
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Posted August 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
New figures reveal that since April the Government has won back over £125,000 in unpaid wages for agency workers.
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Posted August 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
*New iTrent contract to service HR and payroll requirements of rapidly growing workforce*
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Posted August 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
Payroll outsource specialist CCM, with offices in Mansfield have been awarded the contact to update the payroll and HR systems for The Practice, on the outskirts of London. The Practice run a fast expanding service, operating clinics and surgeries nationwide on behalf of PCTs and healthcare commissioners. They have implemented the LivePay web based service in order to provide more up to the minute management information and streamline the increasingly complex requirements. The solution includes specific requirements for reporting including GP pension reports.
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Posted August 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
An important item this week is a series of “Myths and Realities” about Pension Personal Accounts, due to affect employers directly in 2012. The legislation is in place, most of the Regulations are out for consultation and the Personal Account Delivery Authority, the body responsible for the design and delivery of the scheme, is starting its programme of communication. We have already covered the “automatic enrolment” requirement in earlier newsletters and the latest discussion of popular misconceptions about the scheme is a useful contribution.
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Posted August 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
The Personal Account Delivery Authority (PADA) is a temporary body established by legislation to introduce the personal accounts scheme, planned for 2012. The new scheme is intended to complement existing workplace pension provision and will be a trust-based occupational pension scheme.
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Posted August 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has published a new booklet providing guidance on all aspects of the employment of children in England, including
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Posted August 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
The uphill struggle facing this year’s crop of GCSE school-leavers is looking ever steeper, according to the results of the latest quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook (LMO) survey of more than 900 employers. It shows that 16 to 18 year-olds are currently less likely to be hired than the long-term unemployed, with a quarter of employers (24%) planning to hire from this age group during the current quarter. In contrast, almost two-thirds of employers (63%) are hiring from the 19-24 age category, with a similar proportion of employers planning to recruit older workers.
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Posted August 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
Commenting on Dr Steve Boorman’s NHS Health and Wellbeing interim review, Ben Willmott, Senior Public Policy Adviser, Chartered Institute if Personnel and Development (CIPD), says:
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Posted August 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
This week’s newsletter covers the new Acas guidance on time off rights for employee representatives, the tax information agreement with Liechtenstein, one of the last tax havens, which made the news headlines this past week, a range of updates to the Employment Income Manual, and some new compliance fact sheets.
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Posted August 19th, 2009 | No Comments »
