Happy new year! The new year symbolises a fresh start, and for many of you this may also mean a fresh start for your payroll processing. Of course, in any month you may decide that it’s time to make a change for a variety of reasons. But we believe January is a brilliant time to […]
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Employers and payroll providers are awaiting judgement on a landmark case that could see payroll providers liable for employer errors Sharmalee Goonewardene, who was an employee of a travel company in California, sued her employers due to errors in her time sheets amounting to over $6,000. She accused them of discrimination, missed overtime, missed breaks […]
The Christmas period offers lots of lovely things, but also a significant amount of stress for anyone who works in HR. Day-to-day routines are often replaced with holiday-specific traditions and customs which, although fun, can present some issues if policies are not in place and expectations are not managed. Dress code (It’s Beginning to Look […]
Britain’s Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested that employers should provide free fruit to their staff. This is one of the new measures that make up an initiative to encourage employers to “help improve the health of their staff and the nation”. He also wants companies to learn some lessons from […]
A new modular HR software designed specifically with micro and SME businesses in mind, has stolen the show at its launch at SME Live at the NEC on 16th October. Amity Essentials, from industry leading HR and payroll provider IRIS FMP, is a flexible HR software, completely free for micro businesses with 10 or less […]
For a while now companies in the UK with more than 250 employees have been required by law to report their gender pay gap statistics on a public government website. This initiative looks to provide transparency and hold companies accountable by revealing the mean and median hourly rates of both men and women, as well […]
SMEs often have a big task ahead of them. Cultivating a growing business is hard for any company, but when you are on the smaller side the challenges faced can seem even larger and have higher stakes. By their very nature, SMEs have fewer employees, a smaller turnover, and run very fast. This can result […]
The most important event of the year is upon us! It’s more important than birthdays, Christmas and even the day when we see the first Creme Egg on the shelf! We are celebrating…National Payroll Week! Organised by the CIPP (Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals), it’s taking place this week, from the 3rd – 7th September, to […]
Back pain is on the rise and it’s not because we’re overexerting ourselves. Quite the opposite actually; excessive sitting is becoming pandemic and we shouldn’t be burying our heads in the sand about what it is probably doing to us. According to the NHS, sitting for long periods of time (I’m looking at you, fellow […]
A new report from the TUC (Trades Union Congress) has revealed that 2.2 million UK employees are losing out on their legal holiday entitlement, which equates to £3bn of paid leave per year. UK law states that full time workers must receive a minimum of 28 days of paid leave per year, including public holidays. […]
When GDPR came into play on 25th May 2018, so did enormous fines for breaching its rules. The maximum fine of 20 million euros is reserved for the most severe of breaches, whereby companies flagrantly disregard the regulation – something that Facebook have done alongside Cambridge Analytica…but luckily for them, before GDPR was implemented. The […]
HR teams manage a vast amount of highly confidential data, from contracts of employment and payroll information to addresses and health records and everything in between. This is a big responsibility and often requires many time-consuming systems and processes, such as using an Intranet, network drives and managing traditional paper filing procedures. Therefore it is […]
