Tag Archives: Payroll

The best audience I will have all year – thanks CIPP!

Posted on October 11, 2019 by

  Take a look at the audience above and you will see what I saw when I arrived to speak- not a single empty chair , everyone paying attention and a great gender mix. The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals … Continue reading →

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Can awards be rewarding? You bet they can!

Posted on October 10, 2019 by

My old firm, First Actuarial, didn’t do awards. They got grumpy when they got nominated (by me) and they made it official policy not to compete against their peers. You can see the sense in that, money spent on tables … Continue reading →

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Pension’s “unknown unknowns”

Posted on September 18, 2019 by

This one takes some beating for nerds interested in the nuts and bolts challenges of building a mass workplace #pensions system:https://t.co/vR638ugBgr — Gregg McClymont (@greggmcclymont) September 17, 2019 Gregg tweets a story run by the FT almost a year after … Continue reading →

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How payroll won friends and influenced Government

Posted on September 7, 2019 by

  This is national payroll week so I’m blogging an article I wrote earlier in the summer for Reward Strategy Magazine. Since the end of the auto-enrolment staging period, I have had less day to day interaction with payroll people, … Continue reading →

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Auto-enrolment – what next?

Posted on September 6, 2019 by

We have got so used to auto-enrolment contribution rates going up as phasing unwinds that it’s actually quite disappointing to think we have no further challenges on the horizon. The Government, in its 2017 auto-enrolment review, promised to introduce a … Continue reading →

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Payroll are tomorrow’s Pension Experts!

Posted on October 11, 2018 by

I spoke at the CIPP Conference at the National Exhibition Centre at what payroll can do to help staff understand pensions and in particular – the pension freedoms. Here are my slides I think there are three things that hold … Continue reading →

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Must we remain in darkness about our retirement money?

Posted on June 18, 2018 by

  The two comments on this thread from David and Matt, show the two ways that pots could follow member. David’s solution is the solution that Hargreaves Lansdown want our Government to adopt. Matt points out that it could force … Continue reading →

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Pensioning employee’s sleep ( with thanks to Kate Upcraft)

Posted on May 19, 2018 by

Not for the first time, I’m very grateful to Kate Upcraft for highlighting a pensions issue that impacts thousands of carers – but appears to be completely off the radar of most pension people. Kate is a freelance payroll consultant … Continue reading →

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By George, I just shrunk the pension!

Posted on April 19, 2018 by

While “workplace pensions” go from strength to strength in terms of coverage, the amount of money being paid as “pensions”, certainly in the private sector, is likely to shrink. this article looks at why and asks some awkward questions about … Continue reading →

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DIY Pension Diagnostics – (a data dream)

Posted on March 31, 2018 by

  Most of us know how hard it is to see a Doctor these days, and how easy it is to get medical help online. Most people I know will consult the internet rather before ringing the surgery. If only … Continue reading →

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