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MPs and staff wake up to the Budget’s losers
Payroll office phones are already ringing as MPs and many employees absorb the reduction in take-home pay for significant numbers of individuals following this year’s Budget, Kate Upcraft told delegates in her keynote speech.: Take-home pay for an employee with a single person’s allowance and paying A rate NI will be slightly lower for those on less than £25,000 a year. ‘That’s not what people thought when they heard the flourish at the end of last year’s Budget about the basic rate going down to 20p,’ she said. Another factor is the increase in the Upper Earnings Limit from £34,840 to £40,040. ‘That’s a huge slice of income that’s now NI d at the full rate.’
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 • Read more
Council bosses earn more than Gordon Brown
Some 14 local authority managers earn more than the Prime Minister at £188,849, with 132 earning more than a cabinet minister at £137,579, according to a report by the Taxpayers Alliance.: In the UK, more than 818 council employees earn over £100,000 a year, the report added. The average salary of the council’s top earners is £120,938, which is over £2,300 a week.
Wed, 2 Apr 2008 • Read more
Earnings keep on rising
Average earnings have risen by nearly 3% from 2006, official figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have revealed. Gross weekly wages grew from £444 in 2006 to £457 in 2007.: The figures also reveal that the gender pay gap has narrowed from 17.5% in 2006 to 17.2% in 2007.
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 • Read more
NHS agency staff on £120 an hour
Agency nurses are being paid over £120 an hour, eight times the average hourly pay for a nurse of £15.66, the Conservative Party have claimed.: The figure was revealed in a reply under the Freedom of Information Act obtained by the party, which asked all NHS trusts across the UK to reveal the top hourly rate that each had paid for agency staff during the previous 12 months.
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 • Read more
Rail staff 'suffer pay cut' if attacked
Northern Rail workers who take time off following an assault or abuse by passengers will have their pay docked, according to rail union RMT.: Following consultation with the union, Northern Rail’s policy had been to pay average wages to all staff who needed time off after suffering violence or abuse from passengers. The change in policy only came to light after one of its conductors, who had been physically assaulted and threatened with a bottle, was told he would only receive his basic pay, rather than average wages because the attack on him had not been serious enough.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 • Read more
Public sector equal pay plans in disarray
Council bosses across England are being forced to remortgage their town halls to meet a £2.8bn bill owed to a generation of women who were underpaid by their local authorities.: Some 700,000 women are due salary rises and back pay of up to six years following a European Union Directive in 2003 on equal pay.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 • Read more
Flex for pay
Almost one in four employees (22%0 would be prepared to take a pay cut to work from home, according to a survey by software company Farmatech. More than eight out of ten respondents said that their decision on whether to take a new job would be influenced by the ability to work from home.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 • Read more
Teachers divided over pay
Teachers unions are divided by the three-year pay deal announced last month. The National Union of Teachers argued that many of its members would be worse off. But the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers said its members had done better than workers in other areas of the public sector. The Head Teachers union said they had already endorsed the deal.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 • Read more
IT pay rises in the south
IT salaries in the south east region have increased by 3.4% over the last 12 months. The survey by IT recruitment agency CV Screen examined IT jobs in Surrey, Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Sussex and concluded that the average permanent IT salary is £33,513.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 • Read more
Payroll blunders are endemic in the NHS - EXCLUSIVE BY SARAH MACKINLAY
The National Health Service is suffering systemic payroll problems with workers suffering incorrectly calculated wages for extended periods.: Project management capabilities are under fire following significant pay errors in a number of trusts across England. In the most recent example, at the Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust, problems have become so acute that nurses have reportedly lost their homes. Health workers on the island have had their night enhancement pay wrongly withheld after an outsourced payroll provider Shared Business Services took over the payroll in 2006.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 • Read more
Footballer's payslip on internet
Liverpool Football Club has launched an investigation after one of its players had his payslip published on the internet. The document shows the details of John Arne Riise’s basic monthly salary.: In addition to details of his monthly salary the document also has information on the Norwegian defender’s appearance bonus, points bonus, Champions League salary increase, and charges made for complimentary meals and tickets.
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 • Read more
NHS hit by another blunder over pay
A primary care trust has overpaid staff by an estimated £200,000 for three and a half years, because of an input error. More than 300 employees at Birmingham East & North Primary Care Trust were paid incorrectly, the trust admitted.: In total the trust has confirmed that 331 members of staff have been paid incorrectly – 82 of whom are still being paid at the wrong level. Jonathan Tringham, director of resources at the trust, told Payroll World: ‘The members of staff affected will not be asked to repay the money. All 82 staff will be moved to their correct salary from February 2008. We estimate that the total overpayments created by this error over the last three and a half years amounts to around £200,000.
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 • Read more
Big jump in pay
Average earnings including bonuses have increased substantially, according to data published by the Office of National Statistics. The figures were published on the same day the Governor of the Bank of England struck a hawkish tone on pay pressures when launching the Bank’s quarterly Inflation Report.
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 • Read more
Payroll errors for the majority
More than half of the UK’s employees have been affected by a payroll error at some stage in their career, according to a new report. The research, by ADP Employer Services, showed that of those affected by an error 41% had been underpaid and only 17% had been overpaid.: Not surprisingly, employees were more likely to report an underpayment rather than an overpayment. Only 2% said they didn’t report a shortfall compared to 20% who failed to report an overpayment.
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 • Read more
City plans renewed pay terms
The Corporation of London will terminate employment contracts of up to 3,342 of its staff only to re-engage them on different terms and conditions, the union Unite has warned.: The union is concerned that the new terms and conditions will be to the detriment of employees and that the proposed changes will disproportionately affect women.
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 • Read more
Wage blunder hospital declined trial pay-run
Payroll provider Capita had wanted to do a parallel run before going live at an NHS trust that paid thousands of employees the wrong amounts earlier this year, it has emerged.: John Allen, chairman of the Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland joint health overview and scrutiny committee, told Payroll Worldthat Capita wanted to do a dry run at the Leicester NHS Trust, ‘But the trust said no,’ he said. He declined to confirm the reasons.
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 • Read more
Survey shows many staff would work without pay
Almost 45% of people would consider working without pay for a week or more, a survey conducted by Payroll World has revealed. Visitors to the Payroll World website were asked: ‘If your business was failing, how long would you be prepared to work without pay?’: The results revealed over 22% would work without pay for a month and 20% of people would work without pay for up to a week if the business in which they were working was failing. A small percentage of people were prepared to work without pay indefinitely – 1.2% of people.
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 • Read more
Action on 'unpaid' wages
A group of union members have launched High Court action claiming too much in wages was docked from their pay packets following strike action. The Unison members from a sixth form college on the Isle of Wight went on strike over pensions in 2006.: Three members claim that 1/228th of their annual salary was deducted, when it should have been only 1/260th.
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 • Read more
HMRC appeals as ruling says troncs are included
HMRC is considering an appeal after losing an employment tribunal case on troncs – the pool of tips shared out among staff. The Central London Employment Tribunal ruled that money paid to restaurant employees through a separate tronc payroll does count as earnings towards the National Minimum Wage.: A spokeswoman for HMRC confirmed: ‘We are currently awaiting the tribunal’s detailed reasoning of its decision before considering this matter further.’
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 • Read more
Young women earn more
Young women in parts of the United States are now earning more than their male counterparts. Those in Dallas, Texas, aged between 21 and 30 from all educational backgrounds have earned 20% more than their male counterparts in full-time work, research revealed.
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 • Read more
