Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) has long been one of the most complicated bits of legislation we have to tackle. What with Periods of Incapacity for Work (PIWs), waiting days and linking periods it has … [Read more...]
Pensions 2022 – a vision of the future
NOW:Pensions has commissioned a very interesting report on the future of pensions. There is far too much for me to consider here but I thought you might be interested to hear some of the experts’ … [Read more...]
Questions we have answered
Q I have an ex-employee who is now claiming Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) from us. We didn’t even know she was pregnant when she left us! Is this possible? A Yes. If your employee left after the … [Read more...]
Statutory Bereavement Pay (SBP)
Parents and primary carers who suffer the loss of a child will be entitled to at least two weeks’ paid parental bereavement leave from April 2020 subject to Royal Assent. Under the Parental … [Read more...]
The future is Bright
Many of you now will be up and running on our new software; Bright Pay. Reports, payslips etc all look a little bit different but in essence it is doing the same job as Access but in most cases – … [Read more...]
Pensions – stop yawning
All sorts now happening in the wonderful world of pensions. Firstly TPR have stepped up their spot-checks but I am unable to find out how many have actually occurred nor can I establish any hard facts … [Read more...]
Payslip – what does it say?
The crackdown on NMW goes on and now HMRC want us to increase the information passed to employees in order to arm them for battle. So we have new legislation from April 2019 that says payslips must … [Read more...]
Dynamic coding update
It just gets worse and worse. I picked this up in the last newsletter and the situation is now rapidly deteriorating but HMRC seem to have chosen a path and are doggedly pursuing it. So rather than … [Read more...]
Welcome to the Team
Petra, a new member of the Pay Academy team with her very vegan packed lunch We have a new appointment to the Team to tell you about. Petra joined us at the beginning of the summer coming from … [Read more...]
Student loans – the chaos continues
Over-collection of student loans hit the press with some ferocity last month adding salt to the very sore wound that many of our graduates now have. Latest figures out (for tax year 2015/16) show £51 … [Read more...]
