If you have employees you will want to know how much you can pay your employees in 2016-17 before you have to pay employer National Insurance Contributions and if there are any further benefits which will help you as an employer. …
There can't be many employers who aren't aware of the living wage rate which comes into effect from 6th April 2016. Increasing the minimum wage for employees aged 25 and over from £6.70 per hour to £7.20 per hour this will be a significant cost for some employers especially in businesses such as hospitality, child care and care in the home for the elderly and disabled. …
I was very privileged last week to be invited by John Glen MP to attend the Department for Work and Pensions Select Committee to provide an insight into how auto enrolment is affecting small businesses. The DWP Select Committee launched an inquiry into pensions auto enrolment in December 2015 and since then a variety of individuals and organisations have provided written or given oral evidence. …
All businesses who employ staff will be aware from the adverts on television, the articles in the press, editorials online and the information letters they will have received from The Pension Regulator that they cannot ignore Pension Auto Enrolment. So what are the 5 most important things you need to do before it is too late? …
For the last two weeks Karen, our Auto Enrolment Administrator, has been busy setting up workplace pension schemes with The People's Pension. This has been the most popular pension scheme with our client employers and several of them decided to have it set up before the new charges came into place today. Since the announcement was made Karen has set up 12 schemes for …
