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Will you make The Reward 300 2020?

The Reward 300 2020, sponsored by Cintra HR & Payroll, is now open for nominations. The questions is; will you make the index of the industry’s most important influencers and decision-makers?

Will you make The Reward 300 2020?

15 Jan 2020by Amber-Ainsley Pritchard

The Reward 300 2020, sponsored by Cintra HR & Payroll, is now open for nominations. The questions is; will you make the index of the industry’s most important influencers and decision-makers?

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Flexible working and technology has blurred the lines for working parents

15 Jan 2020

Dominic Chappell ordered to pay £9.5m into BHS pension schemes

15 Jan 2020

How can data analytics be used to identify top performers?

15 Jan 2020

BBC loses equal pay case against Samira Ahmed

13 Jan 2020

BBC loses equal pay case against Samira Ahmed

Recently launched IR35 review to conclude next month

How to prepare for 2020 employment law changes

CIPD: CEO pay ratio reporting shouldn’t be treated as a tick-box

Top bosses’ pay overtakes the average worker’s entire 2020 pay in three days, according to research from the CIPD and think tank High Pay Centre

The Payroll & Reward Conference returns for 2020

With more than 40 years’ combined experience, Reward Strategy and The Payroll Centre will come together - for the third time - to host the Payroll & Reward Conference in 2020

60% of companies unprepared for executive pay gap reporting

Three-fifths of UK organisations are still not ready to report their executive pay gap - almost twelve months after the legislation came into force, new research finds

Pension schemes pursue risky investment strategies that seek extra returns, TPR finds

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published new research on leverage and liquidity to better understand the potential risks for defined benefit (DB) pensions

What we learned at the Autumn Update 2019

Reward Strategy highlights three key learnings from the Autumn Update, sponsored by Ceridian, Cintra HR & Payroll, Immedis and Western Union Business Solutions

Financial worries cost employers £14.2bn in turnover

Financial worries cost UK employers £15.2bn every year in employee absence, turnover and lower productivity, according to new research

CIPD: How to manage perceptions about fair pay

Over-reliance on line managers to communicate about pay could be leaving HR teams out of touch with workforce perceptions of fair pay, according to the CIPD

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Payroll & Reward Conference

03 Jun 2020

09:00The Chelsea Harbour Hotel, London

Payroll & Reward Conference: with a combined 40 years experience in leading payroll events, Reward Strategy and The Payroll Centre have joined forces and have created the UK’s largest independent conference.

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The Reward 300 Gala Dinner & Awards

03 Jun 2020

18:30

The Reward 300 2020 will be revealed during a gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Chelsea Harbour Hotel, in London, on 3 June. This follows the first day of the Payroll & Reward Conference.

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Funding fertility

Latest edition’s highlights:

→ Cover feature: Will reward managers support staff on their journey into parenthood

→ The RS Interview: Sue Brooks, head of reward at Trowers & Hamlins, on wellbeing, helping people flourish and why law firms are in their "own little world"

→ What payroll wants and needs: SD Worx and Reward Strategy share the findings of a roundtable which discussed the challenges and future of payroll

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RS Interviews

“Invite yourself to the conversation”

by Amber-Ainsley Pritchard

Maria Hennessey on her 34-year-strong payroll career at McDonald’s

"Reward people love firefighting"

by Amber-Ainsley Pritchard

Tim Robertson of ITN on reward professionals’ characteristics, bias in salary setting and the need for portable benefits

Redefining reward

by Amber-Ainsley Pritchard

Megan O’Shaughnessy of BT on her journey into reward, how to attract and retain talent and the importance of flexible working

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Benefit Cosmetics on the importance of employee wellbeing

CIPD: Communication is key for a&nbsp;reward strategy&nbsp;

CIPD: Communication is key for a reward strategy

Sunrise Senior Living: Improving employee wellbeing

Virgin Atlantic Airways: The payroll and HR relationship

Opinion

News in brief: Editor’s picks

by Amber-Ainsley Pritchard

Since returning from the holidays, a few articles from other news outlets - relating to pay, reward and HR - have spiked my interest, so I thought I would round them up and continue to do this on an ongoing basis

Are your policies green enough?

by Alastair Kendrick

Employment tax specialist Alastair Kendrick highlights issues HR managers should be considering to be more environmentally friendly

Reward 300 - index of influence

Charles Cotton

Performance and Reward Advisor

CIPD

Liz Robins

Managing Partner

AS Robins

Karen Thomson

Head of Payroll Services

Armstrong Watson

Neil Hollister

CEO

The Learn Centre

Ian Hodson

Head of Reward

University of Lincoln

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Guides

Advisory Fuel Rates December 2017 – four changes

by Ian Holloway

HMRC’s Advisory Fuel Rates (AFR) can be used by employers in two situations, both applying if the employee has a company car.

Recognised Overseas Pensions Schemes

by Ian Holloway

Where transfers of funds are made from a UK-registered pension scheme to an overseas one, that overseas scheme must be ‘recognised’ by HMRC to maintain UK tax benefits. HMRC publishes an updated list of overseas pension schemes that have told them they meet the necessary criteria to be a Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (ROPS).

Employer Bulletin 67 (August 2017)

by Ian Holloway

Billed as ‘your route to the latest in payroll news’, this should always be on everyone’s weekend reading list. However, I do have some concerns/comments regarding some of the topics in the latest Employer Bulletin from HMRC.

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