Category Archives: Payroll

How payroll can get pension-smart (without really trying!)

Posted on March 30, 2017 by

Pensions are important. They occupy our press, parliament and they occupy payroll! For better or worse we have wedded payroll to work and unless you are on a payroll, it is increasingly unlikely that you are earning much more than credits … Continue reading →

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How can payroll bureaux profit from auto-enrolment?

Posted on January 15, 2017 by

I’ve recently been asked by the leading payroll trade publication to answer some questions. I’ve enjoyed thinking about them and have set out my answers below. I’m not a payroll manager and I don’t run a bureau – I’m not … Continue reading →

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THE RISE OF THE EMPLOYEE – guest blog from Dan Docherty

Posted on July 20, 2016 by

    The huge increase in internet and smartphone usage across the country is rapidly changing the way people want to interact with the businesses that employ them. As they grow more accustomed to inputting their personal data online, employees … Continue reading →

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If your boss doesn’t care about your pension , he doesn’t care about you.

Posted on June 6, 2016 by

Popcorn pensions We’re used to bosses telling us that we’re the company’s greatest resource.Britain is a service led economy and even in an increasingly digital market, the human resource is expensive to acquire and to replace. If you have a … Continue reading →

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What price advice?

Posted on April 27, 2016 by

The principal purpose of the Financial Advice Market Review carried out by the FCA and sponsored by Harriet Baldwin (Chief Economic Secretary to the Treasury) is to broaden the availability of advice to ordinary people. Critical to the purchasing of … Continue reading →

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(Workplace) Isa ain’t gonna wash for a week!

Posted on April 22, 2016 by

  A radical idea Michael Johnson has published his proposal for a workplace ISA, Michael has explained this to me before and has explained his proposals publicly to the DWP Select Committee. The proposal is not just to include an ISA … Continue reading →

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Upstairs Downstairs RIP -today’s domestic employment market has moved on.

Posted on April 22, 2016 by

As we grow more affluent – British families are outsourcing many of their domestic duties Many of the employers who will be staging auto-enrolment by the end of decade have no idea they have any duties to provide pensions. They … Continue reading →

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Time-Cost will prevail

Posted on March 31, 2016 by

That “it’s all about payroll stupid!” has become one of the axioms of auto-enrolment strategy. It’s a truism you hear mouthed by people who sell pensions but I’ve not hear many in payroll return the compliment! “It’s all about pensions” … Continue reading →

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Auto-enrolment limits – what the DWP aren’t saying!

Posted on December 16, 2015 by

The DWP’s paper on the Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Bands(QEB) for auto-enrolment next year is very well written and gives an insight into just how much thought is going into managing the conflicting needs of employers, workers, administrators and…HMRC. … Continue reading →

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Choice – we love to have it – we hate to use it!

Posted on December 13, 2015 by

Choice – a mass of contradictions I’ve noted before that choice is something we feel we cannot do without but is something we generally cannot deal with. It is rare that the phrase ” I had no choice” is used in … Continue reading →

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