2021 Budget - 3rd March HR & Payroll News - Software for People Mar 04 2021 7 0 Budget HR Payroll Tax 2021 Budget 2021 Budget – 3rd March Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered the UK 2021 Budget in Parliament setting out tax and spending plans with measures to support businesses and jobs/ livelihoods through the current pandemic – within 3 core topics: supporting the British people and businesses through this moment of crisis; once on the way to recovery, beginning to fix the public finances; and starting the work of building the future UK economy Read more ...
SfP World Service Training HR & Payroll News - Software for People Nov 30 2020 0 0 HR Payroll Software for People are delighted to announce the publication of the SfP World Service 2021 Training Prospectus. Read more ...
Support for businesses who are paying SSP to employees HR & Payroll News - Software for People Jun 04 2020 2 0 HR Payroll Covid 19 ONLY applicable to a business with fewer than 250 employees (as at 28 Feb 2020). This is still SSP - and therefore subject to all the usual rules, such as a maximum of 28 weeks’ pay, except that: There is no PIW to apply (so pay can start from the first day of sickness); and The employer can reclaim (via the online service at GOV.UK) up to 2 weeks of SSP per relevant employee. Note:those two exceptions ONLY apply if the ‘sickness’ is Covid-19 related (although this can be due to isolation not just confirmed infection). Read more ...
Corona Virus Job Retention Scheme HR & Payroll News - Software for People Jun 04 2020 0 0 HR Payroll Covid 19 Payroll The scheme is being extended to run until 31st October (instead of ending on 30th June), there is a new key caveat – namely that an employee can only be furloughed on/after 1st July IF already furloughed prior to 30th June. In practice this means that the ‘closing date’ for putting a previously unfurloughed worker onto furlough is 10th June (so that a minimum period of 3 weeks has been completed before 1st July)! Read more ...
Congratulations to Newham College HR & Payroll News - Software for People Feb 24 2019 9 0 HR Awards Newham College has been named one of the most inclusive employers in Britain by lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall in its Top 100 Employers list for 2019. Read more ...
AE Pension Contributions Increase HR & Payroll News - Software for People Feb 20 2019 6 0 HR Payroll Tax Auto Enrolment Payroll Pension The minimum contributions you and your staff pay into your automatic enrolment workplace pension scheme will increase from 6 April 2019. The minimum employers have to contribute into their staff’s pensions goes up from 2% to 3% of qualifying earnings with staff’s minimum contributions going up from 3% to 5% at the same time. It is your responsibility to make sure these increases are implemented. Read more ...
Congratulations to Hudderfield New College HR & Payroll News - Software for People Jan 25 2019 4 0 HR Awards Huddersfield New College has been named the number one organisation in the UK for Equality and Diversity – for the third year running! HNC received the award at the National Centre for Diversity (NCFD) awards ceremony last night. The evening was a double celebration as HNC was also named as the Further Education Provider of the Year. Read more ...
How SfP are preparing for GDPR HR & Payroll News - Software for People Feb 09 2018 7 0 HR Payroll In May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) will come into force across the UK. Software for People’s (SfP) clients (Controllers) are ultimately responsible for the implementation of GDPR within their own organisations and by extension have a legislative responsibility to ensure that third parties who process data on their behalf (Processors) are also compliant with the regulations. Read more ...
AE Pension Contributions Increase HR & Payroll News - Software for People Jan 24 2018 2 0 HR Payroll Auto Enrolment Pension The minimum employers have to contribute into their staff’s pensions goes up from 1% to 2% of qualifying earnings from 6 April 2018. Read more ...
The Disability Confident Scheme HR & Payroll News - Software for People Apr 06 2017 14 0 HR Disability Confident In 2016 the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) quietly relaunched Disability Confident, an initiative originally launched in 2013 by David Cameron, as a replacement for the Two Ticks positive action scheme. Read more ...