Pay and benefits

New and updated

• What is the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs

• What is the role of employers in the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Why the right benefits can help in the new war for talent

  Date:

  13 February 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Employee experience has become a watchword for employers looking to recruit and retain the best staff and avoid high turnover. But they need to do more than offer juice bars and gym memberships, according to Jack Curzon of Thomson Online Benefits.

• Pensions auto-enrolment earnings thresholds rise

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Updated to reflect that the draft Regulations have been finalised.

• Changes to Scottish income tax bands and rates introduced

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Updated to reflect a change to the earnings threshold of the higher rate tax band.

• Itemised pay statements and statements of fixed deductions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on draft Regulations that will extend the right to itemised pay statements to workers, from 6 April 2019

• More than £800m generated from HMRC payroll investigations

  Date:

  12 February 2018

  Type:

  News

  HMRC collected £819m in additional tax through payroll investigations last year, as it continued to crack down on organisations that wrongly classify workers as self-employed.

• State pension rates 2018/19

  Type:

  Quick reference

  A table listing the state pension rates 2018/19.

• Employers offering health and wellbeing benefits on the rise

  Date:

  9 February 2018

  Type:

  News

  The number of organisations with a designated fund for health and wellbeing benefits has risen by a quarter, following a marked increase in stress and other mental health conditions.

• Public-sector pay 2017: Public safety

  Date:

  8 February 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  The announcement of the pay awards for prison officers and police officers in England and Wales heralded an easing of the Government's public-sector pay restraint, but most employee groups in the public safety sector received increases in line with the policy of pay awards averaging 1% in 2017.