Archive for the ‘Human Resources’ Category

Going global without the grief

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Think small and you will undoubtedly get left behind. The increasingly global nature of business means organisations must look beyond the local or even national boundary.

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HMRC PAYE review is radical for the industry

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

What do you think of the PAYE review published yesterday? It’s pretty radical stuff to feed all employee data to HMRC each pay period from April 2012 and from 2015 move to HMRC calculating tax and NICs.

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Next generation leadership

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Your business is only as good as your people – it is a commonly used and accepted adage. But in the case of your own organisation, is it actually true?

There is little point investing in internal staff if you are going to cut workers at the earliest sign of a downturn. Training and employing staff is a costly process and it is surely remiss to write off such investment.

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Less joined up government – Duncan-Smith plans to break up DWP

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

According to Government sources, Iain Duncan-Smith, the Work and Pensions secretary is about to split the DWP into two separate departments, one looking after welfare and one dealing with pensions. DWP has the biggest budget in Whitehall and has been restructured frequently in recent years. It was created in 2001 from the Department of Social Security which until 1988 had the health brief too, and despite this happening over thirty years ago, lots of people still refer to DWP as the DHSS!

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One letter makes a big difference to final salary pensions!

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Sometimes the most innocuous sounding announcement can have a big impact. Steve Webb, the new Pensions Minister, threw a lifeline to final salary pension schemes in the private sector recently by allowing them to amend their scheme rules to use the lower Consumer Pries Index (CPI) to uprate their pensions in payment and deferred or preserved pensions rather than the Retail Prices Index (RPI ).

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Revenue outlines service reduction for share support – is this the thin end of the wedge?

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

HMRC’s Share Schemes Services Unit have written to their customers outlining the reduced level of support that they can expect as the annual share returns are about to be submitted – to the same deadline as P11Ds.

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HMRC manages expectations on service

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

In its latest newsletter to stakeholders, HMRC’s David Ellis is very clear about the current service standards that employers can expect from the department, and one would suspect that with more budget cuts to come, this will become business as usual.

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Cable proposes a graduate tax

Monday, July 26th, 2010

One year on from the debacle of the Student Loans Company’s (SLC) handling of loans to last year’s intake of graduates, Business Minister Vince Cable has put forward a novel way to solve the problem and at the same time cut more public sector jobs – scrap the SLC and introduce a graduate tax instead.

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Vetting and Barring Scheme – the ins and outs

Monday, July 26th, 2010

The Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) that has been dogged with controversy since its inception is yet again under review by the Home Secretary, Theresa May. She has called for a ‘common sense’ review that will see the registration of individuals with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA), that was due to begin on 26 July, now on hold. Employers will therefore find themselves in limbo as some of the reforms that went live in October 2009 are unchanged whilst new systems have to go live on 26 July, albeit with some modification.

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Review of NEST announced

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

New Pensions Minister Steve Webb has published the promised review of the scope of auto-enrolment into the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) workplace pension that is due to be rolled out from October 2012 onwards.

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