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David Gauke MP, Shadow Treasury Minister, has promised full consultation and piloting of controversial plans to take PAYE calculations out of the employer’s remit and replace with a single national system.
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Opposition by payrollers is building to the radical plan by the Conservatives to centralise the PAYE process.
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New legislation has come into force which allows the Gangmasters Licensing Authority to revoke licences of any employer found to be abusing salary sacrifice schemes. The scheme closes a loophole in the law which has cost the Treasury an estimated £0.5billion.
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Small businesses are to be the subject of a new TV series which has been paid for by HM Revenue & Customs and which aims to improve business processes and procedures.
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The Royal Parks is to install an automated HR service. The new HR system will be self service, allowing all 130 members of staff access to the human capital management system and access to their own files.
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The first corporate manslaughter and corporate homicide case to be held in Britain has been adjourned due to the defendant's ill health.
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HM Revenue & Custom’s helpline is facing meltdown following publication of its number in the Daily Mail, as the incorrect notices fiasco started to hit employees in the pocket.
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The highly respected think tank the New Economic Foundation has forecast that a shorter working week will be the norm as we continue to face economic uncertainty.
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The Equality Bill has come under fire from the Pope who has claimed it enforces sinful behaviour and will force the Church to hire gay people or transsexuals.
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Stephen Timms, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, has admitted that HM Revenue & Customs has issued coding notices to the wrong agents, in apparent breach of data protection law.
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A radical solution has been offered by respondents to a survey which explored the ongoing issue of unscheduled absence. The survey indicated that some 20% of full time salaried employees admitted to calling in sick in order to enjoy a day off. Yet when pressed, the respondents offered several solutions which, they said, would make it less likely for them to call in sick.
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Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, is being forced to reply to a formal complaint about breaches of the Data Protection Act by HM Revenue & Customs.
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Errors in the HM Revenue & Customs modernised, single national computer system were known about last September, it has emerged, yet have not been fixed.
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Business groups have hit out at extended paternity leave, saying that it could be disruptive to businesses, and could be claimed fraudulently.
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UK businesses are unhappy about the possible abolition of the default retirement age, with 70% of employers saying the abolition is not welcome, in a new study.
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Employers who refuse holiday entitlement to an employee who has breached his or her employment contract will not be in breach of the Working Time Directive, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has announced.
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HM Revenue & Customs has been sending out incorrect tax code notices for 2010/11, drawing fire from the Opposition, and concern among payroll managers.
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Some 44 million calls were left unanswered by staff at HM Revenue and Customs in the year 2008-9, Whitehall's spending watchdog has revealed.
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A leading payroll recruitment specialist has warned of an ‘explosion’ for the increase in the demand for international payroll experts and the need for payrollers to increase their knowledge of the international payroll market.
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The number of hours worked as unpaid overtime by employees has increased significantly according to research by the TUC (Trade Union Congress).
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Youth unemployment, in Britain, has been branded a national crisis according to a respected economics professor, and member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.
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Employers are cutting back on company health insurance schemes according to research by ActiveQuote.com, a price comparison website specifically for private health insurance.
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Alistair Darling’s announcement of a one-off 50% levy on discretionary bonuses in banks operating in the UK opens up a grey legal area, employment law specialist Fiona Bolton of Eversheds has warned.
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Different interpretations have emerged on the employment law question of whether staff who cannot get to work because of bad weather are entitled to be paid.
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An eight-year contract worth an estimated £5.4bn has been signed by Essex County Council and the technology firm IBM.
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The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has urged the Government to freeze the minimum wage for those under the age of 22 in an effort to combat high levels of youth unemployment.
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Fiddling one’s expenses is no longer tolerated following last year’s MPs expenses’ scandal.
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The planned basic state pension increase of 2.5% announced in the Chancellors Pre Budget Report will not apply to all pensions, it has been revealed. There is also growing concern among pension organisations over the increasingly complex system of revised pension schemes.
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In his last Pre Budget Report before the general election, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling announced that National Insurance Contributions will increase by 0.5%.
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Expected taxation of banking bonuses, and anti-avoidance measures to police them, will be introduced with immediate effect, the Chancellor Alistair Darling announced in the Pre-Budget Report on 9 December.
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A Liberal Democrat MP is pushing for a vote in the House of Commons over the issue of mandatory pay audits.
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Some 71% of workers aged over 55 said they were planning to work beyond the state pension age, compared with just 40% who gave the same response two years ago, according to research carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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An increasing number of small or medium-sized employers are leaving themselves open to legal action by failing to be aware of the level of sexism, swearing and shouting in their workplace, a specialist business insurer has warned.
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Microsoft has announced that it is to turn off its hosted payroll software 10 days before Christmas, leaving hundreds of small businesses just six weeks to migrate their entire payroll system to another provider.
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A leading PAYE expert has warned that if the Scottish Government is to take on greater responsibility for its own affairs, then HM Revenue & Customs has a responsibility to ensure all its databases are up to scratch before the information can be passed over.
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A consultation exploring options for extending paternity leave rights for fathers, which could increase by up to six months, closes on 20 November 2009.
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The Government is expected to announce a dramatic u turn over its plans to scrap tax and National Insurance relief on child care vouchers, following pressure from former ministers including Caroline Flint, Estelle Morris and Patricia Hewitt.
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Just 4% of employers are planning to offer their staff an above-inflation pay rise with 47% planning to freeze pay rises completely.
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The Tribunal Service is struggling to cope with an increased demand in the number of cases it is expected to hear.
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The Metropolitan Police faced fresh allegations of institutional racism after an Asian police community support officer claimed there was a ‘black van, white van’ system for officers at one London police station.
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Following the fall-out over MPs expenses it is now the turn of spouses who are employed by their MP husband or wife to come under fire. The Legg Review, which will be published early November, is expected to recommend that MPs should be banned from putting their spouses on the payroll.
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Employers will face fines of up to £1m if found guilty of corporate manslaughter, under new sentencing proposals. The Sentencing Guidelines Council has recommended that a fine should now only ‘rarely be below £500,000’.
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The worst financial crisis since the Second World War could have been prevented if there were more women were on the boards of major companies, according to a former Bank of England policy maker.
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As the row over MPs expenses continues to cause a stir within the Westminster village, experts outside its closed doors claim the clampdown has no legal standing.
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An employee who was caught posing as a model after doctors had signed her off work with tendonitis and chronic fatigue syndrome is suing her employer citing unfair dismissal.
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One in three women are bullied at work and the problem is spiralling out of control according to one of Britain’s largest unions.
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The use of fingerprinting to monitor Eurostar cleaning staff is being strongly disputed by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) which is threatening strike action pending discussions this Friday.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced that the Government will scrap tax and National Insurance Contribution exemptions for childcare vouchers provided by an employer. In its place, he is offering free childcare for 250,000 two-year-olds.
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The minimum wage will increase year on year until 2015 under a pledge made by the Prime Minister in his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference on 29 September.
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A High Court Judge said this week that there is a ‘compelling’ case for considering whether a mandatory retirement age is necessary. However, he still ruled to uphold the right of employers to insist on compulsory retirement at age of 65.
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The Conservatives have strongly criticised Gordon Brown’s shock decision to phase out tax relief on childcare vouchers, effectively killing off salary sacrifice schemes that have produced savings for parents and for employers.
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Actors union, Equity has come under fire from an industrial tribunal and was accused of running ‘shambolic’ offices.
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Men receive five times more in bonus payments than their female colleagues in the UK financial sector, a research by the Equality and Human Rights Comission (EHRC) revealed.
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An employee made redundant from her company has been allowed to proceed with her claim of unfair dismissal, even though she presented it three months after her employment terminated.
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A group of 72 bankers have launched a claim with the High Court for £30million in unpaid bonuses.
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New guidance on the complex TUPE rules, governing retained terms and conditions for transferred employees, have been published by the Employment Appeals Tribunal. The new guide covers situations around outsourcing, in-sourcing and new contractors.
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IT specialists working for the IT giant Capgemini on behalf of HMRC are being shipped in from Capgemini India and paid the same salary they receive in Mumbai to work in the Telford offices in the UK.
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Increasing numbers of top level employees and company directors are taking advantage of cheap company loans instead of cash remuneration to avoid the 50% super tax, Accountancy Web reported.
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A lorry driver who strangled his boss with his tie after forcing him to hand over £3,000 in unpaid wages, has appeared in court.
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Urgent action is required to avert massive cyber fraud in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics in what researchers said will be a 'national embarrassment.'
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Chris Johnson, former head of reward at the Cabinet Office, and head of human capital at global consultancy Mercer, will address the Public Sector Payroll conference on 12 November. He will discuss the increasing pressure on public finances, with a particular focus on the controversial area of public sector pensions.
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Average earnings including bonuses rose by 2.5 per cent in the year to June 2009, up from the May rate of 2.3. Average earnings excluding bonuses, or regular pay, rose by 2.5 per cent in the year to June 2009, down from the May rate of 2.6.
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The US state of California, struggling through a budget crisis, will delay paying the June 2010 state employees payroll by a day in order to push the expense into July 2010, when it would be paid in the new fiscal year.
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There has been an angry reaction to the possibility that tax-processing work might be outsourced to India by HM Revenue & Customs. Documents leaked to Computer Weekly show that the Revenue has discussed such a possibility with its key IT contractors CapGemini and Fujitsu.
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The final stage in a three year legal battle to give people the right to continue working beyond the age of 65 took place in the High Court this month.
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Employers are concerned that the Government is preparing to ‘gold-plate’ European Union legislation on employment protection for agency workers, law firm Eversheds has said.
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There are calls to suspend the Working Time Directive in the light of the swine flu epidemic, said international law firm Eversheds, as the reduction of hours worked on the part of hospital doctors come into effect on 1 August.
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Australia’s Labour Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to introduce a publicly-funded parental leave scheme by 2011.
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Bonuses and other sensitive forms of remuneration in the banks will come under closer scrutiny following the Walker Review, published on 16th July.
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Businesses are not prepared to implement forthcoming changes to executive pay, reflecting new guidelines on pay to be published by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), leading law firm Pinsent Masons has warned.
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Unemployment rose to a record 281,000 to 2.38 million in the three months to May, the Office for National Statistics said. The jobless rate rose to 7.6%, the highest in 10 years. The number of people claiming unemployment benefit increased by 23,800 to 1.56 million.
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Further evidence of recessionary conditions emerged as Red Flag Alert, a quarterly monitor of early warning signs of company distress from business rescue firm, Begbies Traynor, said that year on year, Q2 2009 shows a 90% increase in the number of recruitment companies showing ‘significant’ financial distress compared to Q2 2008.
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Shadow Treasury Minister David Gauke, MP for South-West Hertfordshire, will be the keynote speaker at the Payroll World Autumn Conference on 8 October at Le Meridien, Piccadilly, London.
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More people with disabilities will receive protection from discrimination after a landmark ruling from the House of Lords on 1 July.
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Businesses need to keep their employees cool during the heatwave in order to maintain productivity levels in the current financial climate, according a report by global insurer RSA.
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Unite, Britain’s biggest union, in May succeeded in securing a landmark judgment from the Court of Appeal against engine manufacturer Rolls Royce, in one of the first cases on age discrimination to be considered by the higher courts.
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With tax revenues falling, PKF accountants & business advisers have warned that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is likely to take a closer interest than usual in individuals profiting from the big summer events like Wimbledon, the British Grand Prix and the many music festivals taking place across the UK.
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The VocaLink Take Home Pay Index, one of the components that drive the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee’s interest rate policy, has continued its rapid decline this year to reach a new all time low of 1.1% in May.
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With unemployment hitting 2.261 million in the three months to April in the UK, the recession could bring about change in employment patterns in Europe and beyond. Two thirds of UK employers are changing work patterns in a bid to save jobs with unexpected signs of co-operation between managers and staff.
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Remember Lee McQueen, 2008’s winner of The Apprentice? He was caught lying on his CV but seemed to get away with it. Now the recession is causing more jobseekers to lie on their CV in a bid to find work, according to new research.
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Payroll recruitment specialist Chase Moulande launched in April its new service, JobSearch Support Services for Newly Unemployed Professionals (JSSNUP), after winning a tender from the Department of Work & Pensions.
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New restrictions to pensions tax relief could form the basis for increasing stealth taxes, consultancy Watson Wyatt warned.
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Hundreds of votes have been registered every day for the Payroll Top 50. As the profession grows in stature, it is payroll itself that is the biggest winner, argues Philip Whiteley.
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A new medical 'fit note' to replace the current 'sick note', and help more people stay in work rather than drift into long term sickness was launched by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in May.
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As political leaders scramble to introduce radical new measures for better governance over MP expenses, companies also need to review their operational expenses as they are throwing away millions of pounds each year through mismanagement of expenses, said a leading consultancy.
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A large proportion of companies are still refraining from implementing salary freezes, according to quarterly research into global salary trends carried out by investment consultant and outsourcer, Mercer.
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Bridget Omakobia, head of payroll at London's further education Lambeth College is a Roundhead which suggests that she is a no nonsense operator who likes to get things done.
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The growing integration of workforce, time and absence management functionality into payroll software could put payroll professionals firmly in the spotlight if UK employees suffer a swine flu pandemic.
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Maximvs Ltd, the publisher of Payroll World, and sister company Chase Moulande have announced that they will not seek to renew their contract with the Institute of Payroll Professionals to provide services and training courses.
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Chase Moulande, the nationwide payroll recruitment consultancy has acquired payrecruit.
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A payroll recruitment agency has been asked to amend recruitment advertisements following a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority.
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