CONFERENCE OPENING AND WELCOME Liz Lay MSc FCIPPdip FHEA ACIPD | Chair | CIPP
To open the CIPP’s Annual Conference and Exhibition in style, a short video was presented, to highlight all the work that payroll professionals have carried out over the past year, and how the CIPP has been there to support.
The CIPP’s chair, Liz Lay, then welcomed everybody to the event, which was held face-to-face at the Celtic Manor in Wales for the first time in two years.
Liz thanked the event sponsors, and extended a warm welcome to guests, with special thanks to our overseas partners.
Liz spoke of the challenges posed by government initiatives, and the pandemic more generally, and applied them to her role at Aldi. She encouraged payroll professionals to take pride in the work they have carried out over the past few turbulent years.
The changes to National Insurance (NI) this tax year were mentioned, including: ● the increase to NI rates of 1.25 percentage points, from April ● the mid-year change to the primary threshold, from July ● the second mid-year change to NI rates, which mean they will revert to 2021/2022 levels, from November.
There was also discussion of the vast array of new legislation that’s recently been introduced. Liz then explained why all of this means it’s imperative that payroll professionals are still recognised as ‘key workers’.
Details of how the CIPP has supported its members were provided, including: ● the budget hub ● ‘ The Payroll Pages ’ weekly LinkedIn newsletter ● the award-winning BeKnowledgeable webinar series
● the Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) ● National Payroll Week celebrations.
Looking towards the future, Liz discussed the CIPP’s involvement in future government consultations, the graduation ceremony 2022, the payroll careers project, the annual general meeting coming in 2023, and of course, the fact that the IPP Education (a subsidiary of the CIPP), is now an Ofqual-approved end-point assessment organisation.
Liz then declared conference open, reminding attendees that sponsors were there to speak to, and the CIPP was on hand to help with anything they needed.
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