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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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Leading global insurer RSA has warned businesses to keep their employees cool during the scorching summer in order to maintain productivity levels in the current financial climate.
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UK businesses are not adequately prepared to implement forthcoming changes to executive pay, reflecting new guidelines on pay to be published by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
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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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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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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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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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New restrictions to pensions tax relief could form the basis for increasing stealth taxes, consultancy Watson Wyatt warned.
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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 recession and the desperate need for more tax revenues will put payroll teams under pressure in a variety of ways, Kate Upcraft, independent payroll commentator, told the conference.
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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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The proposed review of the PAYE system will be wide-ranging and fundamental, Stephen Timms, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, told the Payroll World conference on 23 April.
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Stephen Timms, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, fresh from what must be Labour’s most depressing Budget in living memory, added a topical buzz when he gave the keynote speech at the conference last month, just a day after the Chancellor delivered his speech to the Commons.
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Anne Knell, partner at HR consultants Newways 90, rounded off the conference morning with a thorough look at employment law, tackling disciplinary procedures and how employers must handle the Acas code of practice which came in April.
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Plaudits for the payroll profession continued to emanate from Government spokespeople as Phil Nilson from the HMRC business consumer unit told delegates: ‘If you didn’t do what you do, the country couldn’t function. You collect £225bn each year. That’s enough to run the health service twice over.
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The European Court of Justice has upheld the UK’s default retirement age of 65, in its keenly awaited ruling on the ‘Heyday’ test case put forward by Age Concern.
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Some leading employers of temporary staff are refusing to pay for the cost of the extra statutory holiday that came into effect on 1 April. The development is likely to cause either increased unemployment or reduced hourly rates for temps.
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Thousands of members of the armed forces have received the wrong pay, because of 'catastrophic' errors in a new payroll system, the Commons Defence Committee has found.
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The Government has begun a consultation process on measures designed to crack down on entertainment and modelling agencies that ‘exploit’ aspiring actors and models.
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HM Revenue & Customs has issued a reminder to small employers to file their 2008/09 Employer Annual Return online this year, and receive a £75 tax-free payment. Employers with fewer than 50 employees are entitled to the £75 payment. It is the last year for which incentive payments have been offered.
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From the start of the 2009/10 tax year, the reporting requirement for form P46(Car) for a car provided for the private use of an employee or a director is being relaxed, HMRC reported.
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French workers at a Sony factory in south west France held their CEO Serge Foucher in a meeting room overnight and also blocked the entry to the factory with tree trunks. They released him at 10am the following day.
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HMRC has acknowledged some technical glitches with the new Employer CD-ROM 2009.
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Employers are being reminded by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) that they must use the new A4 version of form P45 from 6 April 2009.
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Trade union leaders in Northern Ireland have protested at errors in a privatised payroll system, which they say left many civil servants out of pocket.
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HM Revenue & Customs has issued a reminder about electronic in-year filing, which will become compulsory for employers with 50 or more employees from 6 April.
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A comparison of surveys of US and UK employers finds a ‘marked similarity’ in the scale and nature of recent job losses in the countries, a new survey has indicated.
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The up-market London night club Annabel’s is awaiting a Court of Appeal decision due shortly on a long running case about tips and the national minimum wage with the HM Revenue & Customs.
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One in eight MPs would be out of a job immediately if they were subjected to the same ageist rules faced by millions of older workers, according to a report by Age Concern and Help the Aged.
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Health minister Ann Keen has applied for a derogation from the EU specially for doctors which will push up the allowed hours to 52 a week, ahead of the planned reduction to a 48-hour week, due to be implemented on 1 August.
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As the first anniversary of the completion of the new NHS personnel database in April comes closer, there are positive signs that NHS payroll managers are getting used to making it work.
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A payroll manager says she is concerned about the online filing of P45s and P46s, due to become compulsory via the internet from the start of the next tax year. In a letter to Payroll World, she said her experience to date has made her feel, ‘like banging my head against the wall.’
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Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, will give the keynote address at the Payroll World spring update conference on 23 April at Le Meridien, central London.
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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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Many civil servants could be spending a third of their lives in retirement, as life expectancy increases, according to the latest report and accounts from the Civil Service pension scheme.
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In a sign that the recession is starting to have an impact on wages and on litigation, a lawsuit has been filed in the US in a claim for unpaid wages of a bankrupt firm.
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The total value of unpaid after-hours work across the UK hit a record £26.9bn in 2008, the Trade Union Congress claimed. In its study of unpublished data from the National Statistics Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, the TUC calculated that 5.24 million people across the UK worked unpaid overtime in 2008.
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The Confederation of British Industry has criticised the Trades Union Congress’s call for an increase in statutory redundancy pay to at least £500 a week.
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The salaries of staff at the BBC, including well known stars, are going to be cut, as the corporation seeks to trim its budget in the economic downturn.
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Employees continue to be entitled to paid holiday while on long-term sick leave, the European Court of Justice has ruled in a controversial decision in which HM Revenue & Customs was the employer concerned.
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Employers have criticised pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, manufacturer of cough remedy Benylin, over a TV ad that suggests people should take a day off for minor ailments.
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The conciliation service ACAS has updated its guidance on disciplinary and grievance procedures to take recent legislative changes into account.
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Latest figures on pay settlement levels from the IDS Pay Databank show that the overall picture is broadly stable, with tentative signs that the outlook for pay rises may be easing in the face of falling inflation.
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HM Revenue & Customs has issued one of its strongest warnings yet over fraudsters targeting taxpayers with scam emails in the run up to the 31 January Self Assessment tax deadline.
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The cost of making an employee redundant can be more than £15,000, even without taking hidden costs such as impact on engagement and productivity, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.
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A new service which enables organisations to sell the time of their staff has been announced.
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There is no system for implementing the reduction of the personal allowance for those earning more than £100,000 from April 2010, as announced in the Pre-Budget Report, the Institute of Payroll Professionals has warned.
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In consultation by the Scottish Executive, a majority of respondents backed the idea for a local income tax to replace council tax.
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The Government has announced plans to replace GP sick notes with 'fit notes', which will switch the focus to what people can do rather than what they cannot.
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There has been a marked fall in advertised salaries across all regions, according to a survey by the job search website AllTheTopBananas.com.
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Chase Moulande, the nationwide payroll recruitment consultancy has acquired payrecruit.
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Payroll World has been shortlisted for Business Magazine of the Year category in the Periodical Publishers Association’s Independent Publishers Awards.
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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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