The online portal for claiming your job retention grant in respect of furloughed workers is expected to be available from April 20th. At the time of … [Read more...]
COVID-19 guidance update from HMRC
The HMRC has issued the following update to its COVID-19 guidance: Dear customer, The government is committed to doing whatever it takes to … [Read more...]
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Furlough Guidance
25 March 2020: the following is our understanding of this policy and how this will work based on the information published so far. It should not be … [Read more...]
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
Our Quick guide – recommended steps If you need to furlough a worker: Notify them in writing of the cessation of their duties and confirm they … [Read more...]
Pay Academy and COVID-19
We are keen to assure all our clients that during this difficult time we are doing everything we can to maintain our efficient and professional … [Read more...]
Healing SSP
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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [Read more...]