Pay and benefits

New and updated

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  IR35: Apply the IR35 rules when engaging an individual to provide services

  Use this IR35 flowchart to help ensure compliance with the IR35 rules on off-payroll working when engaging an individual to provide services, for example a contractor, freelancer or consultant. The flowchart can also be used to review existing contracts.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Record-keeping - statutory requirements

  Updated to reflect a change to record keeping requirements regarding the national minimum wage, effective 1 April 2021.

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  Overpayments: Deal with an accidental overpayment discovered after employee has left organisation

  Use this overpayments flowchart to deal with an accidental overpayment made to an individual where the overpayment is discovered only after they have left the organisation.

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  Overpayments: Deal with an accidental overpayment made to an employee

  Use this overpayments flowchart to deal with an accidental overpayment made to a current employee.

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  Pensions auto-enrolment: Assess an individual to ascertain your duties in relation to them

  Use this pensions auto-enrolment flowchart to ascertain your pensions auto-enrolment duties in relation to an individual.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Does an employer need to provide evidence that it is meeting the requirements of the national minimum wage?

• Date:

  24 March 2021

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Reward strategy actions for 2021

  Duncan Brown, independent government and employer adviser, and researcher on reward management issues, discusses the need for change in prevailing UK reward models, and shows how organisations can begin to build back better and fairer reward strategies.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Sleep-in care workers not entitled to national minimum wage while asleep, rules Supreme Court

  In Tomlinson-Blake v Royal Mencap Society; Shannon v Rampersad and another (t/a Clifton House Residential Home), the Supreme Court dismissed both appeals and ruled that sleep-in care workers are entitled to be paid the national minimum wage only when they are awake for the purposes of working, not when they are sleeping.

• Date:

  9 March 2021

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  April 2021 employment law changes: Five things for HR to do

  While continuing to deal with the impact of coronavirus, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the usual raft of April employment law changes. In April 2021, these changes include the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector, a tweak to the national minimum wage age bands, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.

• Date:

  4 March 2021

  Type:

  Case studies

  How Rostrum reinvented its benefits package

  Rostrum talks to XpertHR about why and how it completely changed its employee benefits offering in 2020.