Hi! If you're new here, you might want to register for free email updates. Just use the form at the top of the sidebar. Thanks for visiting The Payroll Blog!
This week’s newsletter, other than the regular payroll calendars, consists solely of a detailed article on the new medical statements, or “fit notes” that will be issued by doctors from 6 April 2009. They will have a significant impact on the way employers handle sickness absences and require employers to have a fresh look at the rules governing payment of SSP.
Continue reading
Posted February 24th, 2010 | No Comments »
In January, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed that the replacement medical statement, known as the “Statement of Fitness for Work” and now commonly nicknamed the “fit note” to distinguish its use from the “sick note”, will come into use from 6 April 2010 in England, Scotland and Wales. It will also be used in Northern Ireland but the effective date is yet to be confirmed.
Continue reading
Posted February 24th, 2010 | No Comments »
The Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP) is urging employers to prepare their payroll staff on the introduction of the ‘fit note’, which will be replacing the traditional format of a medical statement or sick note from 6 April 2010.
Continue reading
Posted February 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
Frontier Software has won the HR & Payroll software contract for The Mayflower Theatre Trust in Southampton.
Continue reading
Posted February 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »
The problems caused by HMRC issuing duplicate coding notices continue to be an issue and HMRC have published at least two updates to reassure employers and employees. We have reproduced the latest announcements below.
Continue reading
Posted February 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
Two weeks ago we highlighted a coding notice problem involving the issuing by HMRC of multiple and contradictory coding notices. The problems reached the national press and HMRC has since published two updates on the situation.
Continue reading
Posted February 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
In a judgement delivered on 11 February 2010, the London Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that, in the case Bateman and Others v Asda Stores Ltd, the employer was entitled to change and impose new pay structures without the express consent of individual employees, based on a clearly expressed term in the staff handbook.
Continue reading
Posted February 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
Alongside the 2009 Pre-Budget Report, the Government announced that it intended to address the problem of potentially exploitative arrangements that are implemented for some temporary workers paid at or near the National Minimum Wage (NMW). HM Treasury has now published a consultation document, entitled National Minimum Wage workers: Travel and subsistence expenses schemes, which explains the means by which it is proposed that NMW workers should be protected.
Continue reading
Posted February 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
In a document for payroll system software developers, HMRC has provided more information about the split of the NICs earnings threshold (ET) from April 2011 into separate employee and employer thresholds. The legislation already defines them separately but, because they have traditionally been set at the same monetary level (e.g. £110 per week for 2010/11), they have both been known as the “earnings threshold”, even though that name does not appear in legislation.
Continue reading
Posted February 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
The Department of Trade & Industry has issued the following employment law updates: Continue reading
Posted February 18th, 2010 | No Comments »
