The CIPP policy team has produced a short webcast which provides an overview of the CEO pay ratio reporting requirements.
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CIPP / BEIS policy think tank – Agency workers recommendations 7 January 2019
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BEIS) and the CIPP are looking for some members to attend a Policy think tank on 23 January 2019 in London to discuss how the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate’s (EAS) remit can be extended to cover policing umbrella companies. Further to the CIPP’s response to the consultation on Matthew Taylor’s agency worker recommendations, BEIS is interested to hear from payroll professionals as to how it can properly define an umbrella company to ensure that all organisations with an umbrella business model are captured but, crucially, so that ‘pure’ payroll companies – ie those that don’t employ the worker but just pay them as an outsourced function of the employment business – are not caught within the definition. The consultation included the proposal: • The Director of Labour Market Enforcement should consider whether the remit of the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) ought to be extended to cover policing umbrella companies and other intermediaries in the supply chain.
100% of those who responded to the CIPP’s survey were in agreement that there needs to be someone in control of legislation and for there to be a point of contact to ensure fairness for all.
Payroll professionals are obviously receptive to the idea but how can it work in reality?
If this is an area that will affect you and you would be happy and willing to discuss ideas and issues with the CIPP and BEIS, please contact policy with your details, using ‘Policy Think Tank - umbrella companies’ in the subject box. Thank you.
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CIPP response to consultation on Ethnicity Pay Reporting 14 January 2019
The CIPP has submitted to government its formal response to the consultation on Ethnicity Pay Reporting.
Background In her February 2017 report, Race in the Workplace, Baroness McGregor-Smith recommended that the government should legislate to introduce mandatory reporting of ethnicity data. At the time, the government said that the case had been made for ethnicity reporting and it expected businesses to do this voluntarily. The government asked Business in the Community (BITC) to assess what steps employers have taken to haul down workplace barriers and harness the talent of a diverse workforce – they found that barriers persist in the workplace. Only a small number of employers had chosen to publish ethnicity pay data voluntarily, so in October 2018 the government published a consultation on ethnicity pay reporting (alongside a Race in the Workplace Charter) asking how a new mandatory reporting requirement should operate.
The government invited views on mirroring some or all elements of the gender pay gap regulations such as proposing the same threshold of 250 employees or above.
CIPP conclusion and recommendations
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
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