Feature insight - payroll data and benchmarking
Every organisation can be liable to occasional data breaches, but are some types of payroll more susceptible to such failures? It will also be interesting to see whether particular breaches are more or less likely with electronic transmission than with paper. The survey currently focusses on personal data generally and then on payslips sent to the wrong person, and on data wrongly received from elsewhere. In the paper era payroll teams sometimes earned money from using payslips for advertising or in producing copy payslips or P60 certificates. Are people thinking of imaginative ways of replacing that lost income as paper gives way to online transmission? But the biggest opportunities must be in comparing costs. Staff are of course the largest cost area for any business these days. The numbers clearly vary a lot, and understanding the factors behind the differences could be very useful. How for example are staff numbers affected by particular types of outsourcing? Or by industry sector? Do the particular features of public sector employers lead to different
staffing needs from those in the private sector or the charitable sector? Moving on to other costs, we can assume for example that London-based teams will be paying more for office accommodation than those further away from the big cities, but is the picture as simple as that? And so on, and so on. What’s changed for 2019? We have made some significant changes to the question bank for the 2019 survey, learning from feedback from previous participants as well as trying to focus more clearly on our twin benchmarking objectives of identification and comparison. So, of the revised questions for 2019: ● some are about identification – distinguishing groups of payroll teams with similar characteristics, based on things like geography or industry or size or other features ● some are about comparison – telling us about volumes or values of events: overpayments or errors or costs for example, and ● some are about both.
Once we have collected the answers to these questions, we can use analysis tools to filter results to produce conclusions and help us further improve the survey for 2020. We shall at the same time seek feedback and ideas from those who participated in the survey, and here we have a big advantage over many business groups. Payroll professionals, as we all know, are always busy with their core tasks. Yet at the same time they are unfailingly ready to devote time and energy to help take the profession forward. The time available for informal consultation on the design of the 2019 questions was sadly all too brief, but the answers I received were amazingly thorough and thought provoking, and I want to express my thanks to those who found time to help us in this way. So, please complete our benchmarking survey this year, whether you have done so in previous years or not. And please encourage payroll colleagues to do so as well. The more data we receive the more useful will be the results, and the faster we can move forward to produce better and more useful data still. n
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: ● Explaining the importance of employment status ● Outlining the factors determining employment status ● Classifying different categories of workers ● Distinguishing different types of employment intermediaries
● Summarising the off-payroll working rules for employment intermediaries ● Summarising the recent changes to modern employment practices ● Outlining the various rights to work in the UK
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 52 | July/August 2019
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