Professional December 2018 - January 2019

Membership focus

What the future holds for payroll, pensions and reward As I’ve often remarked one thing hasn’t changed over the ages – people will always need to be paid, receive rewards and be paid a pension. It will therefore continue just to be as busy and demanding a role as it always has been, dependant on accuracy and timeliness. In fact, for many years most payroll departments have had the following mantra: ‘paying employees accurately and on time’ – which has served us well. However, I think the 21st century payroll team mantra should be: ‘paying employees accurately as per the relevant legislation, on-time payment as per their contract, raising payroll standards and providing great customer-service’. This path can be supported though education, membership and recognition supported by the CIPP. In the last two years we’ve started to focus on the ‘future of payroll’ through an annual survey, which includes elements of pensions and reward. Our 2018–19 survey has recently closed, and the report is due in January 2019. We had just short of 1,000 responses from members responsible for paying 6,000,000 employees (about 20% of the UK workforce) which gives the results some credibility.

Areas that we cannot escape from are robotics, artificial intelligence and even blockchain. Part of the CIPP strategy, with industry and board input, during 2019 will be how we support our membership as the technological advances march ahead.

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reward professionals. It is important both for training, learning, understanding and implementing new legislation, that we are the first organisation individuals think of to support them, and that we continue to be seated within government consultation forums providing a voice to our members and the industry. It’s also important employers realise that employees in their payroll department having a payroll qualification isn’t a ‘nice to have’ but a requisite in performing their role, and that continuing professional development is actively pursued and maintained and that the learning requirement never ceases The CIPP will to continue to focus on our key core activities of education, training and membership and promote and celebrate the uniqueness in offering Chartered membership across our industry. n

We will need to ensure that our membership see our qualifications as material to their aspirations and career, and that our learning experiences are focussed, up to date, informative and of world class quality. This will ensure they are valued and recognised not just in their line of industry but as a key component and critical to the success of their employers and organisations. For the CIPP, particularly having Chartered membership, we aspire to be the organisation for all payroll, pension and offering Chartered membership across our industry

Employment status and modern employment practices

One day

This course explains how to assess employment status, the financial risk of getting it wrong, the right to work in the UK and a variety of modern employment practices. It covers recent developments such as the IR35 process changes (‘off-payroll working’) and possible future developments following various Government consultations.

This course covers: ● Importance of determining employment status ● Determining employment status ● Types of worker

● Employment intermediaries ● Right to work in the UK ● Future developments

Book online at cipp.org.uk/training , email info@cipp.org.uk or call 0121 712 1000 for more information.

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| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward |

Issue 46 | December 2018 / January 2019

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