CIPP Payroll: need to know 2018-2019

The National Minimum Wage: consultation on salaried workers and salary sacrifice schemes will run until Friday 1 March.

The CIPP Policy team has produced a survey in line with the questions asked in the consultation document, which will take approximately 10 minutes to complete – slightly longer if you have a lot of information to impart.

Whether you complete our survey or the government’s survey, or indeed both, this subject is an important one where the outcome will be change. Please help us to influence that change for the better.

Our survey will run for 4 weeks and will close on Friday 22 February 2018. Thank you in advance for your time.

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CIPP webcast on tipping processes 5 February 2019

The CIPP policy team has produced a short webcast exploring typical payroll processes around tips, gratuities, cover and service charges and tronc systems and discusses the plan to legislate to ban employers from making unnecessary deductions from staff tips.

CIPP webcast on tipping processes

Visit My CIPP on our website for other topical webcasts - an easy way to update your team on aspects of payroll legislation.

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What priority does your business give to supporting work-related stress? 12 February 2019

According to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) over 11 million days are lost at work a year because of stress at work and in 2015/16 over 480,000 people in the UK reported that work-related stress was making them ill. This amounts to nearly 40% of all work-related illness.

Acas talks about the reluctance many employees have to talk about stress at work. Despite what statistics show there is still a stigma attached to stress and people still think they will be seen as weak if they admit they are struggling.

Mental health is no longer the taboo subject it once was and can affect anyone at any level of an organisation. It is therefore important that an employer takes steps to tackle the work-related causes of stress in its organisation and encourages staff to seek help at the earliest opportunity if they begin to experience stress.

Reducing work-related stress can be hugely beneficial to an employer, it can: • Make staff healthier and happier at work • Improve performance and make staff more productive • Reduce absence levels • Reduce workplace disputes • Make the organisation more attractive to job seekers.

The employer benefits are not the only reason to address work-related stress as an employer has a legal obligation to ensure the health, safety and welfare of its employees. As part of this, an employer must conduct risk assessments for work-related stress and take actions to prevent staff from experiencing a stress-related illness because of their work. If you have fewer than five employees you don’t have to write anything down, however it may be useful to do so in case circumstances change so you can review it later. If you have five or more employees, you are required by law to write the risk assessment down.

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