The ECJ’s decision in The Sash Window Workshop and another v King could have huge repercussions for UK businesses. Another month, another gig-economy-related upheaval in employment law, and this one could see payroll departments reviewing the historic holiday pay of...
Outsourcing your payroll takes a costly, time consuming process and eliminates it from your day to day operations. How much more time and money could you save if you changed your time and attendance system too? This week, around 1,300 health workers in Belfast found...
The increased connectivity of payroll processing has transformed the reactive model of years ago into a tool that can aid productivity, adapt and grow with companies and meet the needs of a workforce on the move. But as the latest Norton Symantec Internet Security...
Is voluntary overtime next in line to be included in holiday pay? Towards the end of last year, a landmark employment tribunal hearing resulted in the inclusion of non-guaranteed overtime payments in holiday pay. Following Bear Scotland v Fulton, holiday payments...
There’s a lot to be said for outsourcing: removing certain tasks allows employees to focus on more important jobs, improving individual job satisfaction, boosting accuracy, saving money and cutting the amount of time taken for something to get done. It’s usually back...
They’re one of a range of tools employers can use to ensure their workforce has the flexibility to respond to demands. They’re unfairly demonized and the majority of people on them are perfectly happy. Or, to put it another way, zero-hours contracts are a workplace evil, with employees frog-marched onto them against their will, forever ruining their chances of getting a mortgage or secured loan.
So where do you stand?
Not so long ago, if you were to mention electronic payslips in polite conversation the assumption would be that you were driven by environmental concerns. Yet in the years since their introduction, it’s the many non-environmental benefits of e-payslips that have made...
You might think it’s a simple matter to decide whether a worker is employed or self-employed. Yet recent court cases (and an HMRC employer compliance review) show that, while the distinction has never been more important, correctly identifying status has never been trickier.