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Top 5 GDPR Compliance Tips for Payroll & HR

May 1, 2018

The countdown has started! The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) lands this month, on the 25th May 2018. It should be the top topic of conversation within all businesses large and small and you should have your strategies in place. But what about payroll teams and pay ...

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The Biggest Gender Pay Gap Offenders

April 18, 2018

The results are in! And they don’t look good… UK companies with more than 250 employees had to report details of the gap between the median hourly rate paid to male and female staff by midnight on 4th April. For the uninitiated, the gender pay gap is the difference betw ...

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The power of payroll in the care industry

April 16, 2018

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 – ...

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Payroll outsourcing – say goodbye to the stress of managing payroll

April 9, 2018

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 cho ...

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Payrite: the payroll professional’s choice

April 2, 2018

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 – ...

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How Will IRIS FMP Keep Your Data GDPR Compliant?

March 29, 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is about to drop! Is your business ready? IRIS FMP is!

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Small Charities Warned they are at Risk of Devastating Cyber Attacks

March 21, 2018

UK charities hold funds, personal, financial and commercial data. This is of interest or monetary value to professional and opportunist cyber criminals and other groups. Small scale attack and financial exploitation is on the up, particularly regarding personal information of ...

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Fate of Off-Payroll Working Sealed After HMRC Victory in Private Sector IR35 Crackdown?

March 13, 2018

It has been insinuated that the BBC was not blameless, and indeed social media commentators have been vocal in suggesting that the BBC may have profited from the arrangement.   What is IR35? IR35, or ‘off-payroll working’ is HMRC tax legislation designed to t ...

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Awards season is underway, so what makes an award-winning HR and payroll provider?

March 5, 2018

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 Acad ...

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Good Work plan fails to stifle criticism

March 5, 2018

Understanding your employment mix at work has always been important, and will become ever more important now the government has published its Good Work plan. Published last week it aims to enforce employment rights from day one in a job, ensuring that all workers including ca ...

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Employers are in the dark ages when it comes to recruiting women and having new or expectant mothers in the workplace

February 23, 2018

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 t ...

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Is gender pay gap reporting in the UK fake news?

February 19, 2018

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 No ...

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