Tired of making the same old excuses when you want a day off? Help could be at hand with the duvet day, another perk being offered to attract and retain staff.   We all know these January mornings when it’s cold and dark outside, the trains are still running late and are crowded with th... [More]

Regulations covering Flexible working arrangements came on the 6 th April 2003. Under the new legislation, permanent employees with more that 26 weeks service who have parental responsibility for a child under age 6 (or under 18 if entitled to disability living allowance) are entitled to request fle... [More]

Every employer should know the basics about statutory holiday entitlement for permanent employees. So, here is our eight-point guide. All full-time employees are entitled to twenty days of paid holiday a year, usually defined as four weeks. Part-time workers are entitled to the same amount of le... [More]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that current UK maternity pay policy is unlawful: In the UK statutory maternity pay (SMP) is calculated on the basis of a worker's average weekly pay during the eight week period before SMP starts ECJ's view is that if a pay rise takes effect during th... [More]

The national minimum wage applies to nearly all workers and sets hourly rates below which pay must not be allowed to fall. It helps business by ensuring companies will be able to compete on the basis of quality of the goods and services they provide and not on low prices based predominantly on low r... [More]

Where an employee is required to travel in the course of his or her duties, many employers supply a company car, and make arrangements for reimbursement of fuel costs. This leaves the employee with taxable benefits, and unless accurate figures for these benefits have been included in his or her PAYE... [More]