You’re not an accountant. All you know is that a company has promised to place you on its payroll and ensure you get 95% of your earnings. If that’s you, it’s probably time to change your payroll arrangements, fast. Last month, we reported on the legal fight between...
Almost one in three businesses is using payroll software that’s more than a decade old. And unlike wine, cheese and Scotch, software doesn’t improve with age. What operating system is your computer running right now? According to a 2017 survey, 52% of businesses have...
You know the regulations. But how do you implement them? Unless you’ve been living under a particularly remote rock, you can’t fail to have noticed that there’s a major change to data laws taking place on 25 May. That’s when the General Data Protection Regulation...
A new report suggests that, no matter what synergies are in place elsewhere in the business, most international companies have distinct and disparate payroll arrangements. For any business operating in multiple territories, ensuring your products or services are...
How a growing threat from Airbnb combined with the Brexit effect is creating payroll problems for the hospitality sector. It’s in the nature of disruptive market entrants to, well, disrupt their respective market. Whether that’s Netflix shaking up the way we consume...
Payrolls need to be more flexible, more agile and more secure than ever before. Is yours? It might seem like an odd question. After all, if your payroll managed to take you through a trouble-free 2017, why should anything be different for the year ahead? Yet if 2017...
What is the salary sacrifice scheme? Salary sacrifice is a government-backed scheme that reduces an employee’s cash pay in return for various types of non-cash remuneration of equivalent value – with tax savings for both employee and employer. For new salary sacrifice...
Like payroll, HR is a function which every organisation has to have, but we’re probably preaching to the converted when we say that it can be complex, time-consuming and expensive. Understanding, complying with and keeping abreast of HR law can be a minefield, which...