High street closures put employers’ redundancy obligations in the spotlight
With more and more high street businesses facing closures, what five mistakes do employers commonly make when handling redundancies? more»
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“Don’t do it”: Self-employed send HMRC final warning ahead of IR35 reforms
As a government consultation ends, HMRC has been urged to scrap plans to extend IR35 self-employed tax regulation into the private sector. more»
Skills over a pay rise? 4 ways to improve self-employed job satisfaction
Developing skills and knowledge provides a greater sense of career progression for self-employed people than increasing annual turnover, according to a new report. more»
Could an EMI share option scheme help you incentivise and retain employees?
The tough question business owners face, especially tech companies, is how to retain and incentivise employees and can this be done cost effectively without large bonus payments? An Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) scheme is a potential means of doing this. more»
Government consultation on off-payroll working rules is based on flawed assumptions, CEO says
The government released its consultation on off-payroll working rules in the private sector on 18 May 2018. However, the document spells bad news for the flexible economy, Chris Bryce, CEO […] more»
Small business owners are increasing staff salaries at the fastest rate for over 3 years
Small business owners are increasing staff salaries at the fastest rate for three-and-a-half years, new research has found, with many employees seeing pay packets increase by over four per cent. more»
National living wage set for £600 pay rise from April
Due to an above-inflation rise in national minimum and living wage rates pay will go up by 4.4 per cent from £7.50 to £7.83 on April 1st, 2018. more»
Majority of workers unpaid for hundreds of hours overtime every year
Over half of all overtime workers are not getting paid for the hundreds of extra hours they put in for their bosses every year, research has found. more»
Football clubs and high street chains named among 179 underpaying employers
Hundreds of UK employers, ranging from Premier League football clubs to 200-year old clockmakers, have been named and shamed by the government for failing to pay staff a proper minimum wage. more»
HMRC collected over £800m from payroll investigations last year
The additional tax was collected on the back of payroll investigations by HMRC’s employment status and intermediaries team. more»
