The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Policy Bi-Monthly Newsletter – September 2016
Contents Apprenticeships .................................................................................................. 6 CIPP webcast on the Apprenticeship Levy...........................................................................................................6 Consultation on the Scottish Government Response to the UK Apprenticeship Levy..........................................7 Apprenticeship funding consultation closes 5 September ....................................................................................7 Register of apprenticeship training providers - survey..........................................................................................8 Apprenticeship Levy guidance for software developers .......................................................................................9 Draft regulations for the calculation, payment and recovery of the Apprenticeship Levy......................................9 Employment News............................................................................................. 10 Employment Tribunals .........................................................................................................................................10 Daily penalties: HMRC victory in Court of Appeal ..............................................................................................10 Islamic headscarf ban is direct discrimination ....................................................................................................11 Indirect Sex Discrimination.................................................................................................................................12 Territorial Jurisdiction .........................................................................................................................................12 What Uber's employment tribunal could mean for employers ............................................................................13 Reasonable adjustments may extend to protection of pay .................................................................................14 General Employment News..................................................................................................................................15 Legislative priorities announced by Welsh Government.....................................................................................15 Statutory code of practice on English language requirement .............................................................................15 UK workers experienced sharpest wage fall of any leading economy................................................................16 New universal credit web tool.............................................................................................................................16 What does Brexit mean for UK employment law? ..............................................................................................17 Universal Credit and employers .........................................................................................................................18 Employers struggling to effectively manage an ageing workforce? ....................................................................19 Pay and work rights complaints..........................................................................................................................19 Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting for public sector employers ..................................................................20 Jobseekers over £1,000 worse off in real-terms.................................................................................................20 Rise in maternity discrimination prompts Committee action ...............................................................................21 UK employees waste 20% of their time worrying about their finances ...............................................................22 Understanding your payslip................................................................................................................................22 Thinking about introducing a work from home policy?........................................................................................23 Research shows increase in zero-hours contracts.............................................................................................23 National Work Life Week 2016...........................................................................................................................24 Managing People – new guide from Acas ..........................................................................................................24 CIPP webcast on Gender Pay Gap reporting.....................................................................................................25 Expenses, Benefits & Reward.......................................................................... 26 Childcare providers are critical to the successful roll out of Tax-Free Childcare – spread the word...................26 Does your benefits package meet your employees’ needs? ..............................................................................27 Payrolling non-cash vouchers and credit tokens ................................................................................................27 Consultation on salary sacrifice for the provision of benefits in kind ..................................................................28 Consultation on alignment of dates for making-good on benefits-in-kind ...........................................................28 Worldwide subsistence rates..............................................................................................................................28 Consultation on simplifying the PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) process....................................................29 Advisory Fuel Rates for Company Cars from 1 September 2016.......................................................................29 Company car tax for ultra-low emission cars......................................................................................................29 Planning to payroll Benefits in Kind in 2017? .....................................................................................................30 CIPP survey: Simplifying tax and NICs treatment of termination payments .......................................................31 CIPP survey: Alignment of dates for ‘making good’ on benefits-in-kind .............................................................31 Tax-Free Childcare.............................................................................................................................................32 CIPP Survey: Consultation on salary sacrifice for the provision of BiKs.............................................................33 Government News ............................................................................................. 34 Can online activity history help GOV.UK Verify work for more people? .............................................................34 GDS - continuous iteration of research is the key to building services that meet user needs ............................35 GOV.UK Verify technical update ........................................................................................................................35 Office of Tax Simplification: new board members announced............................................................................36 HMRC Protecting customer data with 2 Step verification ...................................................................................36 Government Committee launch inquiry on executive pay ..................................................................................37 Autumn Statement 2016 date confirmed ............................................................................................................38 Finance Act 2016 ...............................................................................................................................................38 HM Revenue & Customs ................................................................................... 39
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