Payment in lieu of notice (PILON)
Notice periods no longer covered by furlough
HM Treasury has confirmed that statutory and contractual notice periods will not be covered by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme...
Arcadia agrees to pay furloughed staff full notice pay
Topshop and Dorothy Perkins owner Arcadia Group has agreed to pay full salaries to staff facing redundancy, after it emerged...
Warnings issued over using furlough pay to calculate redundancy pay outs
Employers could be unwittingly breaking the law by calculating redundancy pay outs based on furlough pay, rather than an employees’...
Calculating notice pay for employees on furlough
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was created at such speed that it created many unanswered questions. The government has...
Top 10 HR questions November 2019: IR35, Christmas parties and PILON
Pending a review announced by chancellor Sajid Javid, reforms to the IR35 rules are due to be extended to the...
Top 10 HR questions August 2019: term-time holiday calculations
How should you calculate holiday pay for a term-time worker without regular hours?
A recent Court of Appeal decision, The...
Top 10 HR questions March 2019: Anonymous witness rights
If a witness in a disciplinary procedure wishes to remain anonymous, how can the employer balance their privacy against the...
Top 10 HR questions February 2019: Redundancy, FTCs and maternity leave
When faced with the need to make redundancies, how should an employer decide which employees to select?
Redundancy exercises bring...
Top 10 HR questions January 2019: Holiday pay, overtime and tax on exit payments
How should employers deal with overtime when calculating holiday pay? Does it make a difference if the overtime is voluntary,...
Top 10 HR questions May 2018: GDPR special category data
Many HR professionals will have spent months preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Now it is finally in...
The top 10 questions April 2018: taxation of termination payments and GDPR
New rules on the taxation of termination payments came into force in April 2018. All payments in lieu of notice...
Tax reform: Hidden traps in the changes to termination payments
Employers should be prepared for several tax system reforms that are due to take effect this year, including changes to...
How to deal with the risks of departing employees with a grudge
Employees who are leaving under a cloud can cause problems, demonstrated recently when a Twitter employee hid President Trump’s account...
Withdrawal of job offer made by agency costs employer £3,000
An employment tribunal has ordered an employer to pay breach of contract damages after it withdrew a job offer made...
Changes to tax on termination pay in April 2018
The Government has cut back proposed changes to taxing termination payments, issuing new draft legislation that is expected to come...
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