Setting up payroll charity donations may be a headache for HR, but the rewards can be significant. Alex Blyth looks at the pros and cons of workplace giving.  More...
02 July 2007 08:00

Kronos has announced that it has been bought by entities affiliated with Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners , a private equity investment firm. Kronos announced on March 23, 2007 a definitive agreement to be acquired by Hellman &a  More...
12 June 2007 12:32

Lloyds TSB has signed a multi-million pound outsourced payroll deal with human resources services provider Ceridian . The agreement covers Lloyds TSB’s 98,000 staff and pensioners in the UK, and extends the existing sev  More...
22 May 2007 08:30

UK firms are making a combined minimum saving of at least £90m by submitting their payroll year-end tax returns online, new research has found. A survey commissioned by software supplier Sage and conducted by YouGov , questioning 1,368 firms  More...
18 May 2007 16:00

Three new staff have joined international payroll software and services firm Patersons , in the company’s drive to cement its global reach. The move follows hard on the heels of the opening of its new offices in the US and Singapore earlier   More...
08 May 2007 11:36

A specialist provider of professional temporary and interim personnel has broke all previous daily, weekly and monthly credit control records with the help of Topaz Credit Control. The achievement by the Venn Group ’s credit control staff help  More...
08 May 2007 11:26

Personnel expert and managing director of BusinessHR David Lennan will be a speaker during the Topaz customer day on 14 June at the award winning facilities of Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire . Lennan is the chairman of the IT Forum Foundation   More...
20 April 2007 11:49

Asset management company Threadneedle has signed a new deal with IT outsourcer LogicaCMG for a fully managed payroll and outsourced HR administration service. The HR outsourcing project aims to provide a one-stop shop for key  More...
13 April 2007 09:28

The University of Southampton has signed a £560,000, five-year deal with provider Northgate HR for its ResourceLink HR, payroll and pensions software . The new software will replace the university’s current HR and payroll system  More...
06 March 2007 14:16

Supermarket giant Somerfield is to outsource the payroll and people information services for its 44,000 UK employees to HR provider Ceridian . The seven-year deal - involving the transfer of 41 Somerfield employees under the TUPE (Trans  More...
02 March 2007 09:25

Payroll used to be seen as a mouse in HR's shadow. But the two functions must now move closer together than ever. Sue Weekes reports.  More...
13 February 2007 08:00

Practical Payroll Handbook 2006/07 Author: Alexandra Durrant Price: £75 Publisher: Gee Publishing Pages: 477 ISBN: 0421965207 Buy this book at Amazon This is a handbook-style guide to payroll and takes a comprehensive look at all the p  More...
06 February 2007 00:00

The accuracy of employee expense claims probably isn't a great concern for most HR managers, but new research suggests this is an issue that should be taken more seriously. Nick Martindale reports. According to a survey of blue-chip companies and   More...
23 January 2007 08:00

Christian Aid has announced plans to outsource its payroll function. The charity has chosen provider Northgate HR to manage its payroll from January 2007. Christian Aid will be able to calculate payroll costs in real time and report on things such  More...
07 December 2006 08:26

The UK's largest integrated HR and payroll system - the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) has added the 500,000th NHS employee onto the 'live' system. When complete, all 1.2 million NHS employees - about 7% of the UK workforce will be paid by   More...
22 November 2006 09:46

British Transport Police has signed a contract worth £655,000 for a hosted, flexible, auditable payroll solution from MidlandHR. Using MidlandHR's system, the law enforcement agency will for the first time be able to view its workforce on one   More...
13 November 2006 09:33

The five-star Dorchester hotel on London's Park Lane has installed a new HR and payroll system. Software provider TeamSpirit  won the contract to supply its HR and payroll software to replace the existing in-house system from a previous supplier.   More...
06 November 2006 12:36

University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust has signed a landmark deal with outsourcing provider Xchanging to set up a new HR and payroll business. The multi-million pound venture, the first of its kind in the NHS, aims to expand the h  More...
13 September 2006 08:00

Debenhams is planning to close its £500m defined benefit scheme to new members and stop existing members from building further benefits.  More...
31 July 2006 14:50

Catering giant automates payroll and admin roles to keep HR in-house.  More...
19 May 2006 09:43