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As the festive season approaches, many businesses rely on staff working longer hours, picking up extra shifts or staying late to meet demand. But are your clients confident they’re paying them correctly? Join HMRC’s National Minimum Wage (NMW) team, for a live webinar designed to help employers and their payroll advisers to understand what counts … Continue reading Extra Christmas working hours and minimum pay
Although employers may have set payment rates at or above the National Minimum Wage for their workers and employees, some even using the higher Living Wage (the voluntary living wage foundation rate), many appear to also get their workers to do extra time for free or count certain work activity as unpaid. All work time … Continue reading Another 103 employers caught not paying for time worked!
Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat commit to further strengthening security checks on delivery riders to prevent illegal working in the gig economy. Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat are to strengthen verification checks on delivery riders to clamp down on illegal working, following talks with the government. The commitment comes after ministers convened the … Continue reading Delivery firms to bolster efforts to stop illegal working
The Government… table amendments to the Employment Rights Bill. The Government have laid amendments to the Employment Rights Bill following weeks of consultation with business groups and unions. The Bill claims to support the Government’s mission to increase productivity and create the right conditions for long-term sustainable, inclusive, and secure economic growth, delivering on the … Continue reading Employment Rights Bill latest
The Employment Rights Bill will ban exploitative zero-hours contracts, end fire and rehire, and introduce basic employment rights from day one. The government are introducing new workplace rights to end unfair employment practices and help deliver economic growth. The Employment Rights Bill will ban exploitative zero-hours contracts, end fire and rehire, and introduce basic employment rights from day one - like paternity and parental leave, and … Continue reading What does the Employment Rights Bill mean for you?
The Labour government has unveiled the Employment Rights Bill in their effort to help deliver economic security and growth to businesses, workers and communities across the UK. Legislation introduced in Parliament to upgrade workers’ rights across the UK, tackle poor working conditions and benefit businesses and workers alike Ahead of International Investment Summit, the government … Continue reading Employment rights reforms revealed
The HMRC Software Developers Support Team (SDST) have issued an update on the RTI changes for April 2025. The following is a brief summary based on the information issued: Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (SNCP) As indicated on 3rd June 2024, to support SNCP there will be one new data item in the Full Payment Submission … Continue reading April 2025 RTI changes latest
As part of the Kings Speech delivered on Wednesday 17th July 2924, the Starmer Labour government set out its intention to extend rights with the Employment Rights Bill. My government is committed to making work pay and will legislate to introduce a new deal for working people to ban exploitative practices and enhance employment rights. … Continue reading Employment Rights Bill
The government is legislating to require businesses to change the information they provide to HMRC through Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) returns completed by employers. The Finance Act 2024 introduced powers to enable the collection of additional data and for HMRC to specify, through Statutory Instruments, the particular information required. The draft regulations published on … Continue reading HMRC to collect worked hours paid data
An employment agency breached National Minimum Wage (NMW) regulations by not paying enough to cover waiting time for workplace security checks on their workers. Nexus Workforce Limited lost their appeal against a number of Notices of Underpayment for failing to pay NMW. During HMRC investigation - it was identified that workers were required to undertake … Continue reading Work security check time is Working Time
The government has responded to the consultation on reforms to retained EU employment law and the consultation on the Working Time Regulation record keeping requirements. . They will legislate to introduce reforms to the working time regulations. In brief, the government propose to reform or introduce the changes to reduce time-consuming reporting requirements under the … Continue reading Change to Working Time record keeping
Workers right across the country will be given more say over their working patterns thanks to new laws supported by the Department for Business and Trade. Millions of workers will have a say over their working patterns as Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Bill achieves Royal Assent. Government-backed law gives all workers the legal right … Continue reading Millions to get more power over working hours
Change to data HMRC collects HMRC has indicated that proposed change in law will likely require employers to report more detailed work hours from April 2025. As part of ‘Change to data HMRC collects from customers’ published on 18th July, the proposal outlines three new compulsory data requirements with a failure to provide resulting in … Continue reading Worked Hours reporting change on its way?
78 of the 202 shamed employers breached minimum pay due to unpaid working time An increasing number of employers are being caught and shamed for not ensuring that the average of relevant minimum pay rate in a pay reference period are paid across all working time. 202 Employers shamed for underpaying minimum wage Unpaid working … Continue reading Unpaid working time may take pay below the minimum wage