Key tax year guide 2016/17

March 24, 2016
The 2016/17 tax year is here and apart from tying up loose ends for the old tax year, you may be already thinking about the next tax year. IRIS FMP have produced some handy guides that may be useful. Our Tax Calendar, in a handy downloadable PDF format, gives a monthly remind ...
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IRIS FMP on board for Charityfair 2016

March 23, 2016
IRIS FMP Payroll Services has become event partner for Charityfair, the Directory of Social Change (DSC) principal event, held in London on 24th and 25th May 2016. The DSC provides training publications, online funding databases, research, conferences, a bookshop and lots of ...
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Pilot payroll errors down Defence budget by £50million

March 22, 2016
Attempts by the MOD to recoup payroll overpayments from 200 Apache attack helicopter pilots have backfired completely, with the resignation of 15 pilots. The fiasco has meant that the £829,000 owed will be dwarfed by the cost, estimated at over £52million, to train new pilots ...
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Payroll Audit – Time to act?

March 21, 2016
A recent BBC news story highlighted just how bad things can get if you don’t regularly conduct a payroll audit in your company. The Nigerian government has just recovered over £8million every month by removing 24,000 non-existent workers from its payroll, some of whom were re ...
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What Are the Most Popular Staff Benefits?

March 21, 2016
Skills shortages can mean it is hard for companies to retain key staff, meaning there is a risk they will be tempted away by rivals. This means you need to look at ways of making staff want to stay with you. While salary is of course key, another element of this is offering t ...
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Payroll Sales Executive – Join the award winning team!

March 15, 2016
We’re on the lookout for a new payroll Sales Executive join our award winning team. Are you up for the challenge? IRIS FMP, who won the Payroll Team Award at the November 2015 Payroll World Awards,  are busier than ever and are looking to grow the business even further ...
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How Can Companies Boost the Wellbeing of Their Employees?

March 15, 2016
 Britain’s companies should turn employee wellbeing into a top priority, according to leading HR professional organisation, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). The CIPD says that too few firms are currently linking an employee wellbeing strategy to a ...
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Night of the Living Wage

March 14, 2016
The end is nigh! New pay legislation shambles into view that threatens to throw payroll into turmoil. The National Living Wage has been haunting businesses since July 2015, lurking in the darkness and unstoppably shuffling closer with each day. Back in January, we speculated ...
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20% Time saving with payroll outsourcing. Its official

March 11, 2016
New research has established that organisations that maintain an in-house team for tasks such as payroll, time and attendance, workforce administration, and benefits administration spend 20% more than organisations that outsource the same functions. It’s official. Manag ...
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BACs SHA-2 – don’t make your payroll a dogs dinner

March 11, 2016
Bacs are stepping up promotional activity in the run up to the Payment Services Website and Bacstel-IP changes due on 13th June 2016. With promotion using ‘Bax’ the Dalmation (pictured) Payroll teams need to ensure that they take action now to prevent interruption ...
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Love or Hate – Zero Hours contracts seem here to stay

March 9, 2016
Yet again the debate about zero hours contracts has made national headlines, with the number of workers, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) rising by 15% in late 2015 and now standing at 801,000, representing 2.5% of the workforce. With the Prime Minister in ...
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