NATIONAL PAYROLL WEEK
The Chartered Institute decided to continue with the theme of ‘keeping the UK paid’ for National Payroll Week 2020 as this year, more than ever, it is a vital sentiment to all the payrollers who have been working exceptionally hard to ensure they have kept the UK paid. Taking place in the first week of September, National Payroll Week was established to raise the profile and awareness of payroll as a profession in the UK. It helps demonstrate the impact the payroll industry has in the UK through the collection of income tax and National Insurance which are expected to contribute some £325.7bn or so to the UK economy in 2020/21. THE ONLINE NPWPACKWAS DOWNLOADED MORE THAN 5,000 TIMES!
THE CIPP FUTURE OF PAYROLL ROUNDTABLE The CIPP launched National Payroll Week 2020 on Monday 7 September with a roundtable discussing the Future of Payroll. The event brought together some of the
industry’s leading experts to discuss the future of the profession following on from the global pandemic we are experiencing. The main outcome reveals how certain trends within the industry have been accelerated by Covid-19, and what they look like now. A good trend is that payroll is becoming more represented at board level within organisations and businesses. A report of the roundtable will feature in the November issue of Professional magazine.
THE CIPP’S VIRTUALWINE TASTING In the evening, following the Future of Payroll roundtable, the CIPP hosted their very first National Payroll Week virtual wine tasting session, which was hosted by Samantha Alder DipWset, of the East London Wine School. Jason Davenport gave a wonderful speech at this invite-only event, welcoming and thanking all for attending, and discussing the meaning of National Payroll Week, as well as celebrating all the hard work that payroll professionals have done which does not go unnoticed. In his opening speech to the session, Jason said that “it is a first for me, and the CIPP, to host a drinks reception virtually, but we are in unusual times and have been forced to think of new and innovative ways to keep in touch and run our events.
“I have to admit, I do like the fact that this year has forced many organisations to embrace technologies that previously may have been ignored. “I hope that you haven’t started on the wine yet! We have the very experienced Samantha Alder from the East London Wine Company joining
us shortly to explain the origins and flavours so that we will all be experienced connoisseurs by the end of the evening. “But before that, I wanted to welcome you all and say a few words in recognition of payroll and National Payroll Week.
“2020 has been a challenging year for payroll professionals, many of whom have been working twelve-hour days, seven days a week to, quite literally, keep the UK paid. Arguably making 2020’s National Payroll Week the most important National Payroll Week that the CIPP has ever run. And I thank you for being a part of it! “Payroll professionals all over the UK have been working hard to implement the government’s coronavirus job retention scheme, otherwise known as CJRS, along with its various iterations and changes, to ensure that the UK has been paid. So have our colleagues in other countries who have been dealing with their own version of the CJRS. And all of this initially during tax year-end – could it have come at a worse time for payroll? “As such, payroll really has had the profile raised. In Australia, the prime minister gave payroll professionals a public thank you for the work that they had done to keep Australia paid. “Here in the UK, the financial secretary to the Treasury, the right honourable Jesse Norman, has provided the CIPP with a public endorsement [see below] of National Payroll Week. It is excellent to have received this official recognition of the profession in writing, and we will continue to work with government to highlight the work payroll professionals do, not just in these difficult times, but in normal times as well.”
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