The UK supermarket climate has been transformed over the past few years with discount retailers such as Aldi and Lidl stealing the limelight, showing off their bargainous British produce and their audacious copycat packaging. Therefore it’s made a change over the last month to see the mainstream shops that have been a part of the […]
Author Archives: Jocelyn Levy
The healthcare sector is nuanced when it comes to payroll and HR. It can entail many challenges and requires expertise to get right. Social housing schemes, care homes, personal budgets for the elderly or disabled, staff on zero hour contracts, multi-site organisations – these are just some of the cogs in the wheel of the […]
Payroll is a high importance, legislation-riddled responsibility in any business, regardless of size or sector. You could have one employee or one thousand, be a farm or a factory; your staff still have to be paid accurately and on time, every time. Thousands of companies choose to either fully or partly outsource their payroll so […]
The payroll department at any company is one of, if not the most important operation behind the business. We don’t want to pile on the pressure, but errors (however small) in payroll have the potential to cause employees huge problems, not just at work but in their life too – rent, mortgage, utilities and food […]
Awards Season is in full swing and all eyes are on the front runners of the film and television industry. In 2018 we’ve seen the Golden Globes, the Grammy Awards and the BAFTAs amongst others, and in the early hours of this morning (Monday 5th March 2018) the 90th annual Academy Awards (Oscars) took place. […]
No, we can’t quite believe it either…yet another damning set of statistics have come to light, demonstrating extremely worrying (and illegal) attitudes towards women in the workplace. We’re not even 2 months into 2018 and this is already the second time we’ve had to address this on our blog! So, what’s happened this time? The […]
Back in November we reported on the gender pay gap in light of Equal Pay Day, and we touched upon the new law that states that employers in Great Britain with more than 250 employees must publish an array of figures about pay related to gender on the government website. In November the number of […]
For many corners of the globe (namely in the Northern Hemisphere) it’s that time of year when poor weather has the potential to cause disruptions aplenty, whether that be down to ice, heavy rain, gale force winds or the dreaded snow. This can cause businesses owners a lot of anxiety as you wonder how and […]
Equal pay is in the forefront of many news headlines at the moment, and rightly so. The Equal Pay Act 1970 states that there must be no favourable treatment between men and women in regards to pay and conditions of employment. Similarly, the Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination in employment on the grounds of age, […]
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has revealed the names of 260 employers who failed to pay a total of 16,000 employees the minimum wage. The most prolific offenders were businesses in the retail, hairdressing and hospitality industries and their failures included not paying staff for travelling between jobs, making them pay for […]
The new tax year is fast approaching and change is around the corner. Preparation is of the essence, so we have put together a list of key points that will impact on your business and your employees in just a few months’ time. From 1st April 2018 the tax free personal allowance is increasing to […]
2018 is going to be a big year for international sporting events. In February, Korea is hosting PyeongChang 2018, more commonly known as the Winter Olympics. Then fast forward a few months to June and July and our attention will be on Russia and the highly anticipated FIFA World Cup. It’s an exciting year to […]
