Payroll Services Archives - Ward Williams HR Advisers

19Mar

Changes to National Minimum Wage rates 2024/2025

The Department for Work and Pensions has published its annual rate increases for 2024/2025. These changes will take effect in April 2024. The rate for statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared…

29Mar

by Hannah Peyton

HR and Employment documentation production, Payroll Services

New Information for Payslips

HMRC is asking employers, where appropriate, to include the following message on payslips: ‘1.25% uplift in NICs, funds NHS, health & social care’. This message is for the payslips of…

01Mar

by Hannah Peyton

Payroll Services

Closure of SSP Rebate Scheme

HMRC has announced that the Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme will close on 17 March 2022. Employers will no longer be able to claim back Statutory Sick Pay for their employees’ coronavirus-related…

06Jan

by Sarena Harwood

Payroll Services

Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme reintroduced for SME’s

Employers with fewer than 250 employees will be able to claim up to two weeks’ Statutory Sick Pay per employee for COVID-related sickness absences occurring from 21 December 2021. The…

20Dec

by Sarena Harwood

HR and Employment documentation production, HR and Employment Law Advice and Support, Payroll Services

Temporary change to Fit Notes

For Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), where employees go off sick on or after 10 December 2021, employers can only ask employees for proof of sickness (such as a fit note)…

26Apr

by Hannah Peyton

HR and Employment documentation production, Payroll Services

IR35 – Are you ready?

Despite the pandemic adding a year’s extension to the original IR35 deadline, recent surveys have shown nearly half of mid-size employers are not prepared for it. Under IR35 if a…

21Apr

by Hannah Peyton

HR and Employment Law Advice and Support, Payroll Services

National Minimum Wage for Sleep in shifts

There has been a further ruling in the supreme court which has concluded the long argument surrounding the MENCAP dispute over pay for care workers who ‘sleep over’ as part…

10Mar

by Sarena Harwood

Coronavirus, Payroll Services

Furlough Scheme extended until September 2021

In the Budget it was announced by the chancellor that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of September. Rishi Sunak said the scheme – which pays 80%…

03Feb

by Sarena Harwood

HR and Employment Law Advice and Support, Payroll Services

National Minimum Wage Update

The age from which employees are entitled to the national living wage has been reduced from 25 to 23 from 1 April 2021. The new increases are: • National Living…

27Jan

by Sarena Harwood

Coronavirus, Payroll Services

New Furlough Treasury Direction

HM Treasury has issued a new Treasury Direction. It’s an amending Direction, not a comprehensive direction. But it seems three main points arise… The scheme is formally extended to 30…

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