New data for the gender pay gap paints a disheartening picture. Well this wasn’t supposed to happen. In 2017, when the government introduced a requirement for companies with 250 staff or more to publish their gender pay gap, the expectation was that we would see rapid...
How a technology most people have never heard of could be about to change everything. Last month, in our future of payroll piece, we explored some of the findings of the CIPP Future of Payroll Survey. One of those findings was that just 15.75% of survey respondents...
Most payroll is still processed in house. And yet, as the CIPP Future of Payroll Survey Reveals, the biggest challenges facing in-house processing can be resolved by outsourcing. There’s an old Tommy Cooper gag which goes something like “Doctor, it hurts when I do...
You run a business operating in the care sector and payroll takes too much of your time. But before you choose your outsourced payroll partner, consider this… In summer 2018 the British Chambers of Commerce published the results of a survey of more than 1,100...
The CIPD’s Labour Market Outlook report for the final quarter of 2018 gives us a decidedly ‘bah, humbug’ feeling about the New Year. It’s that time of year. A time to look back at the year that’s passed (as we do in this review of 2018), and a time to look ahead at...
It was the year of GDPR, gig-economy wranglings, Making Tax Digital and auto-enrolment crackdowns. And that’s before we get to Brexit. If you work in payroll, 2018 has been a busy year… January We started the year by looking at the good, the bad and the ugly of what...
Like cheese and crackers, Slade and Christmas and Ant and Dec, some things are just meant to go together. Businesses have an uncanny knack of dividing their various functions into silos that never collaborate. That may ensure roles are kept nice and tightly defined,...
Auto enrolment is proving a challenge for many, especially SMEs – and now The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is getting tough. We explore the mistakes inexperienced payroll workers are making most often. In October, four members of a Derby-based recruitment company became...