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...]
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 … [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 … [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 … [Read more...]
Welcome to the Team
We have a new appointment to the Team to tell you about. Petra joined us at the beginning of the summer coming from Sainsbury’s HR and payroll team. … [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 … [Read more...]
Re-enrol time
Three years from your staging date you will be required to go through the re-enrolment process. This means that anyone who has ceased or opted out of … [Read more...]
Employees and PTAs
Everyone can now access their individual 'Personal Tax Account' (PTA) via the HMRC Government Gateway. To do this they/you will need a Government … [Read more...]
