NATIONAL PAYROLL WEEK
The CIPP and Portfolio Payroll exclusive networking drinks
The CIPP launched National Payroll Week 2018 on Monday 3 September alongside the event’s main sponsors, Portfolio Payroll. Networking drinks and canapes were held at 4pm at the Portfolio Payroll London office and was attended by invite-only guests to kick off National Payroll Week. Ken Pullar, CIPP chief executive officer (CEO), gave a wonderful speech, welcoming and thanking everyone for attending and discussed the true meaning of National Payroll Week. Alongside the networking drinks in the London office, a second one was taking place in Portfolio Payroll’s new Manchester office, spreading payroll awareness and celebrations 180 miles away.
The Future of Payroll roundtable
The celebrations continued on day two of National Payroll Week with a roundtable event at Portfolio Payroll’s London offices, to discuss the results of the CIPP’s Future of Payroll Report 2017 – which was completed by payroll professional across the everywhere. The results of the 2017 survey were analysed by the group as well as hot tops in payroll news and legislation such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The 2018 survey report will be released in November.
The CIPP House of Commons event Following the Future of payroll roundtable, the day continued with a prestigious event at the House of Commons, sponsored by Julian Knight member of parliament. This event was attended by VIPs and event sponsors as well as full, fellow and Chartered members of the CIPP.
Both Eira Hammond, chair of the CIPP, and Gill Dix, head of workplace policy at ACAS, gave incredible speeches to the room of guests. Eira went into further detail on key points from the Future of payroll report and Gill discussed the hard work ACAS are currently doing on behalf of payroll professionals as well as what is in the pipeline. To quote from Eira’s speech: “I am delighted to be here today to launch such a prestigious event. I hope by now you have all seen the Future of payroll report 2017/18, based on the survey, which was launched during National Payroll Week in 2017 and completed by over 500 people. “Based on the survey results, payroll professionals, just like us, represent 2.3 million employees being paid in the UK. It’s not just paying those employees, it’s the amount of tax and National Insurance contributions deducted and paid over to HM Revenue and Customs that also helps keep the economy moving. It’s a big responsibility. “Keeping the UK paid – I’m sure you’ll recognise our slogan for NPW – concentrates solely on the UK but we recognise that it is crucial to continue to work with our international payroll organisation colleagues including those at the American Payroll Association, the Canadian Payroll Association, the South Africa Payroll Association and the association for payroll specialists in Australia. We support and work with each other, and consequently support our payroll professional colleagues around the world, whichever country’s payroll they are paying. “One final point to note from the report is looking at payroll whether as a strategic or an operational function? Where payroll does get on the board of an organisation, it’s generally through finance or human resources, or where a director no longer has payroll in their title but where they’ve widened their remit to include learning and development or reward. “Having said that, it’s time businesses appreciated more that payroll can provide significant information to the business to support strategic decisions; providing both intelligence and analytics regarding the organisation’s most valuable asset, it’s employees, and one of the highest costs, their pay. “Payroll can also affect employee motivation (or lack of it if not performed correctly), adding to the employee lifecycle through communicating and educating employees by empowering the workforce with knowledge and efficiency savings, which will ultimately benefit them in their daily lives. “The CIPP supports members with compliance on employer-supported childcare, cycle to work schemes, other expenses and benefits including optional remuneration arrangements, and other such complexities, like calculating holiday pay when overtime is guaranteed or not, and off-payroll working in the public sector – and probably private sector at some point soon.”
| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward | October 2018 | Issue 44 16
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