“Don’t worry when you are not recognised, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
National Payroll Week reminds employers, employees and the government of the essential role the payroll function plays in compliance, collection of taxes and delivery of social and employment policies. Seeing this year’s NPW CIPP staff awards Editor’s comment
crucial social/employment statutory requirement. Are the failures more extensive than currently being revealed (see page 20), and who should shoulder responsibility? This month’s feature topic is absence management (see pages 36–39) which is a continuing source of concern for employers. Mental ill-health is one of the main causes of long-term absence, resulting in15.8 million days being lost annually. Lisa Gillespie (page 39) quite rightly sets out a call to action from the government.
(pages 12/13) made me think about the well-deserved honours that I wish I’d bestowed on colleagues in finance and personnel departments from my distant payroll processing past. Might the CIPP’s staff awards be an inspirational prototype for future NPWs across the UK? Pages 8/9 feature an article on the national minimum/living wage. It seems increasingly evident large number of employers are failing – whether deliberately or otherwise – to comply with this
Mike Nicholas MCIPP AMBCS Editor
Chair’s message
For once I seem to be on terra firma in the UK and starting out at the busiest time in our CIPP payroll calendar. The House of Commons launch was a wonderful event, starting our celebrations
progress your chartered institute into the future. You will have an opportunity to vote online this year and full details can be found on the CIPP website. In the past, for whatever reason, our members have not always felt it necessary to vote for board candidates. With there being so many applicants this year, it’s more important than ever to look at the skills and experience of each candidate and ensure you are confident the board of directors have the make up to set the strategy for the CIPP, especially with the impending addition of a new membership level coming soon, to be announced at our Annual Conference. I’m really excited about our conference this year, and hope that I will get the opportunity to meet with as many of you as possible at our flagship event of the year.
‘Putting the spotlight on payroll’ at the beginning of National Payroll Week (see page 12). It was great to see and hear from so many payroll professionals. We followed that with our second Scottish National Conference where we heard from key note speaker Anton Colella, chief executive of ICAS (see page 14) and were informed about topical subjects – such as money laundering, the General Data Protection Regulation, devolution and Brexit – and the latest from The Pension’s Regulator amongst many more. It really was a successful event. As I said in the September issue, we were delighted to receive so many applications for a position as board director. I trust that you will all look through the candidates thoroughly and select the individuals who you feel would best represent you as a member and you would trust to act on your behalf to
Eira Hammond FCIPPdip Chair, CIPP
Summer is now long gone as we enter a very busy autumn season. It was good to see so many distinguished guests celebrate National Payroll Week at the House of Commons on 4 CEO’s message
review the criteria of each board applicant to ensure you are ably represented by board members with an appropriate mix of skills representative of our industry. As we approach November, it’s time for celebration as we hold our Graduation Ceremony for those who have successfully completed our university approved qualifications. To our successful graduates for this year, I remind you to maintain your CIPP membership to ensure you stay up to date, compliant and can continue to use the well-earned letters after your name.
September, ably inaugurated by our chair, Eira Hammond. Next this month is our Annual Conference and Excellence Awards ceremony, once again with a high calibre agenda and an outstanding number of quality submissions for our Awards. I look forward to meeting up with many of you at the conference and to celebrate with our winners at the Awards. As the chair alludes to in her message, Eira has written several articles this year encouraging members to consider board membership – and the response has been superb. I would endorse Eira’s comments that prior to casting your vote you carefully
Ken Pullar FCIPP Chief executive officer, CIPP
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Issue 34 | October 2017
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