In December last year we posted an article about Social Network policies in your business. Due to new Anti-Sectarianism laws being passed there is a need to be extra vigilent on how your employees use their social networking sites. In March new legislation was passed by the Scottish Government, this means that it is not [...]
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Avoid the Potential Hazards of Benefits
Is Salary Sacrifice cost neutral to your business – are you sure? Benefits these days are few and far between so when as a business you are able to offer a benefit that is a “neutral cost” you’d be crazy not to offer this to your staff, wouldn’t you? Be sure to check the small [...]
Protected Conversations
He says, she says Protected conversations are the controversial topic of a Government Consultation this year. While we recognise that it is a good thing the Government have acknowledged a need for employers to be able to broach difficult performance matters; in reality are protected conversations the way to do this? On the surface this [...]
Agency Workers Regulations
On October 1st 2011 changes to the Agency Workers Regulations came into force. The AWR are very comprehensive but the three main changes which have come into force are: After a 12-week qualifying period, agency workers have the same rights to pay and working conditions as permanent staff in a similar role. This includes overtime [...]
Salary Sacrifice Vat Changes
From 1st January 2012, new rules have come into force on VAT treatment of certain benefits provided under a salary sacrifice scheme. After a ruling in the European Court of Justice, an employer, operating a salary sacrifice scheme, must pay “output” tax on the pay given up by employees. Output tax, which is the VAT [...]
Pension Reforms
By the end of September 2016 all companies, no matter how large or small, will legally have to automatically enrol all eligible employees into a pension scheme and make minimum contributions into it. Already more than 100 employers have signed up to the government backed NEST (National Employment Savings Trust) pension scheme in advance of [...]
Equality Act 2010
With all of the Election excitement the Equality Act 2010 has snuck onto the statute book. This was conceived to unify the previous anti discrimination legislation covering gender, age, disability etc. Unsurprisingly there are also a lot of new factors in this act, for example with pre-employment health questioners employers are prohibited from asking job [...]