Archive for June 21st, 2010

A bank holiday may occur while an employee is away on maternity, paternity or adoption leave.  What action, if any, the employer takes with regard to payment for the bank holiday is a contractual matter. In the case of salaried staff, for example, where an employee’s salary is paid as normal when there are one [...]

While contemplating for a few hours what the Chancellor has in store for us in his Budget, why not give a little thought to how you might detect fake “fit notes” and what you would do if you found that an employee had presented one to justify absence and claim SSP? Sponsored by Learn Payroll

A recent IPP newsletter highlighted a recent BBC news item about a website, www.doctorsnotestore.com, that sells fake “fit notes” from £25 each, with a money-back guarantee if they fail you get the purchaser our of work or school. Selling sick notes is apparently not illegal, only using them fraudulently to obtain payment of SSP.  Employers [...]

In its recent newsletters, the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP) has provided details of changes to the bank account details to be used from payments by employers to the Centralised Attachment of Earnings Payment System (CAPS), operated by HM Courts Service (HMCS). The changes were added by HMCS to the website page that explains how [...]

The 2002 European Working Time Directive, as it applies to mobile road transport workers (i.e. drivers of commercial goods and passenger vehicles), makes provision for its rules to apply to self-employed drivers from 23 March 2009. However, in 2008, the European Commission consulted on permanently exempting self-employed drivers, proposing instead that the Directive should be [...]

On 17 June, the Revenue Commissioners published a consultation document and draft regulations relating to the Mandatory Disclosure of Certain Transactions legislation introduced in section 149 of the Finance Act 2010.  The legislation requires the promoters of tax schemes with certain characteristics to disclose them to the Revenue Commissioners shortly after they are first marketed [...]