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Apr 29, 20214 min read
HR software: How to choose the right one
So you’re thinking about making the move from paper to digital record keeping.
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BHP Group
May 12, 20204 min read
Return to work guidance: Covid-19 update
The Government’s long-awaited guidance on how to return to work safely as lockdown restrictions are eased provides 8 papers
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BHP Group
Apr 18, 20201 min read
Furlough: HMRC step-by-step guide to making a claim
Claim for your employees wages through coronavirus job retention scheme.
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BHP Group
Apr 18, 20203 min read
How to make a claim under the furlough scheme
You can only claim for periods when your employee was on furlough. You must claim for all employees in each period at one time ....
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BHP Group
Apr 18, 20202 min read
Holiday Pay, Statutory Leave, Unpaid Leave and Furlough
The employer & employee can agree to vary holiday entitlement as part of the furlough agreement, however almost all workers are entitled to.
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BHP Group
Apr 18, 20203 min read
Furlough: claiming pension contributions
You’ll still need to pay pension contributions on behalf of your furloughed employees
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BHP Group
Apr 18, 20205 min read
Furlough: claiming employer National Insurance contributions
The total grant for employer National Insurance contributions cannot exceed the total amount of employer National Insurance contributions..
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BHP Group
Apr 18, 20206 min read
Furlough: Working out the maximum wage amount you can claim
The maximum wage amount you can claim is £2,500 a month, or £576.92 a week, plus any National Insurance and pension contributions.
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BHP Group
Apr 18, 20202 min read
Furlough: What to include when calculating wages
The amount you should use when calculating 80% of your employee's wages is regular payments you are obliged to make.
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BHP Group
Apr 4, 20202 min read
Holidays during and beyond the furlough period
Confusion remains around the issue of holidays and furlough: can employees take holiday during furlough?
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BHP Group
Mar 25, 20205 min read
Furloughing staff. What, when, how?
With the coronavirus outbreak, many employers are considering reducing their workforce. The Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme..
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BHP Group
Sep 10, 20192 min read
What do you pay when an employee is off sick during their notice period..?
The rules surrounding sick pay are complex, none more so than when an employee is on sick leave during their notice period.
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BHP Group
Jun 28, 20193 min read
Blurring of work and home life: are there ‘winners’ and ‘losers’?
The US comedian Carrie Snow once said new technology “brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other”.
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BHP Group
Jun 13, 20192 min read
Gender-neutral ads to encourage female STEM apprentices
Women represented just under 9% of #STEM apprenticeship starters in 2017/18, according to gender balance campaign group WISE.
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BHP Group
May 16, 20192 min read
Waste plant fined £500k over fatal wheeled loader crush
George Richardson had worked for Sanders Waste and Plant Management at its site in Pegswood, near Morpeth, for ten years when the accident
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BHP Group
May 2, 20193 min read
Energy giant fined £230,000 for unfairly dismissing employee that ‘HR didn’t know how to deal with’
“One of the UK’s largest energy providers has been ordered to pay an employee £230,000 for unfair dismissal
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BHP Group
Apr 26, 20192 min read
Reliance on agency workers increases as confidence in economy drops
When asked about economic conditions in the country as a whole 13% of employers said they were getting better, while 44% believed they were.
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BHP Group
Apr 11, 20191 min read
Unguarded machine trapped worker’s hand
On 25 April 2018, an experienced worker was making concrete screen wall blocks at their site in West Sussex
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BHP Group
Mar 26, 20191 min read
Award limits and amounts payable under employment legislation
The new limits apply where the event that gives rise to the award or payment occurs on or after 6 April 2019.
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BHP Group
Feb 8, 20192 min read
HMRC should stop its “unreasonable” investigations
n a letter to the HMRC, the #BRC said it was “inappropriate” for enforcement officers to pursue companies for technical breaches
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