Policy News Journal - 2017-18

In addition, they very much want to hear more about some more specific issues that payroll professionals might be well placed to answer. There has been a lot of commentary about reductions in pay differentials between grades and changes to staff benefits in response to the NLW. Shifts in contract types, for example a move to using more zero hour contracts, are something they have also heard much about.

Hearing your views about compliance with the minimum wage, and what role payroll systems can play in preventing non-compliance is also a critical part of their work this year.

Please contact Samantha Mann CIPP senior policy and research officer at policy@cipp.org.uk for full details of this important event.

Attendance will be granted on a first come, first served basis.

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CIPD survey on proposed changes to payslips 26 September 2017

The CIPD has been running a short survey on proposed changes to payslips. If your organisation pays people by the hour please take a few minutes to provide your opinion.

The survey from the CIPD will close on Friday 29 September. We appreciate that this doesn’t leave much time for completion, however the survey is short and will only take a couple of minutes of your valuable time. Thank you.

Background The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is reviewing whether it should require employers to include hours and pay for National Minimum Wage purposes on a payslip, as defined by the National Minimum Wage Act. According to the definition in the Act, certain hours (such as hours worked for holiday pay, or rest breaks for hourly-paid workers) and certain pay amounts (such as pay for premium pay uplift, holiday pay or pay for sick leave or maternity leave), would be excluded from hours or pay worked for National Minimum Wage purposes respectively. The payslips proposal is based on the Low Pay Commission’s (LPC) recommendation in its Spring 2016 report that employers should include in their hourly-paid staff’s payslips the hours each worker is being paid for. The idea behind the LPC’s recommendation is to increase transparency and information provided to workers about how their pay is calculated. BEIS officials are very interested in developing this proposal, and responses will help to identify the best way to do so, and to obtain a better estimate of its business impacts and benefits. The proposal will be implemented across all sectors.

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Payslip activity survey 16 October 2017

Please take a moment to answer two multiple choice questions about your current payslip activity.

The Low Pay Commission recommended in their Spring 2016 report that employers should include in their staff’s payslips the hours each worker is being paid for. The reasoning behind the recommendation is to increase transparency and information provided to workers about how their pay is calculated.

We have produced a short survey in conjunction with BEIS: please take a moment to answer a couple of questions on your current payslip activity.

The survey is only running for this week and will close at 12pm on 22 October.

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