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Pension Contributions During Maternity Leave: A Practical Guide for Employers and Payroll Teams

Pension treatment during maternity leave is a frequent source of queries and potential payroll errors. The rules combine employment law protections, auto-enrolment duties and the terms of the pension scheme itself. Correct application protects employees’ pension rights and reduces compliance risk for employers. Statutory Maternity Leave lasts up to 52 weeks and is divided into […]

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Pension Contributions During Maternity Leave: A Practical Guide for Employers and Payroll Teams

HMRC Guidance & Employer Bulletins

HMRC Reinstates

As featured in the June 2025 Employers Bulletin HMRC has announced a significant update in the latest June 2025 Employers Bulletin, confirming it has reverted to the term ‘Disputed Charges’ after briefly renaming it ‘Charge Resolution’. The change reflects a renewed focus on helping employers navigate PAYE discrepancies more effectively. According to HMRC, the most common cause of disputed charges is duplicate […]

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Qualifying workplace nursery?

As part of the July 2024 agent update 121, HMRC confirmed that many of the new salary sacrifice arrangements claiming to be based on workplace nurseries do not work. This is because the employer either doesn’t have enough responsibility for or is not involved enough in the provision. This could be viewed that an employer […]

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Employment Rights & Workplace Policy

Pilot for 4-Day week concludes

In Autumn 2024 the non-profit group ‘4 Day Week Campaign’ launched a second pilot scheme trialling further proposals to introduce a four-day working week. To achieve this businesses adapted the working week by compressing the number of hours usually worked over five days to four: Example: The total number of worked hours remains the same […]

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Pay, Benefits & Expenses

P11D and P11D(b) Filing and Payment Deadlines

The deadline to notify HMRC of any Class 1A National Insurance contributions owed for the tax year ending 5 April 2025 is 6 July 2025. Ensure all submissions are completed by this date, as late or missing submissions may result in penalties. Payment Deadlines: Submission Guidelines When completing your P11D and P11D(b) forms, make sure your […]

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Employment Rights & Workplace Policy

Auto Enrolment Duties for Seasonal Staff

During the summer periods some employers in certain sectors such as hospitality or farming may have the need to take on extra staff to cover increase workloads in their business, typically this will include seasonal workers such as fruit pickers or to cover certain types of labouring work where there is an increased demand for […]

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Employer Compliance & Best Practice

Reporting payroll information on time

The guidance on how much you pay if you do not report payroll information on time has been updated. Information for employers about late or non-filing PAYE penalties, specified charges, inaccurate reports and how to avoid penalties in future has been updated with the latest figures on how much you pay if you do not report on […]

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Employment Rights & Workplace Policy

Veganism and protected philosophical beliefs

An employment tribunal is to question whether veganism should be recognised as a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. The claimant worked as head of policy and research for the League Against Cruel Sports. He argues that he was dismissed after raising concerns that his employer’s pension fund was investing in businesses that […]

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Parental Leave

Extension to Shared Parental Leave and Pay Bill proposed

Draft amendments to the Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Extension) Bill have been published after a proposal to extend the provisions to self-employed workers was put forward under the parliamentary ten-minute rule. Tracy Brabin, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, made the case for amendments to the Bill in a speech to parliament in February 2018. Following […]

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Pay, Benefits & Expenses

Higher salaries on offer as businesses struggle to recruit

Job market data from CV-library revealed that advertised salaries reached a 12-month high in November. The research, which compared data from November 2018 with the same period in 2017, revealed some impressive hikes in advertised salaries. In Liverpool, salaries were found to have increased by 11.9 per cent, while Glasgow, Southampton and Aberdeen all saw […]

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Relief at source pension schemes newsletter

HMRC has published its latest relief at source pension schemes newsletter, containing updates and guidance on pension schemes. The newsletter includes information on the notification of residency status report for 2019 to 2020. It notes that from January 2019, an additional residency status will be added to tell you if your member has Welsh residency status […]

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