Pay and benefits

New and updated

• TUPE: Obligation to keep national minimum wage records moves to transferee

  Date:

  1 August 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Mears Homecare Ltd v Bradburn and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the duty to maintain national minimum wage records moves to the transferee on a TUPE transfer.

• Take part in our pay award forecasts survey

  Date:

  30 July 2019

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  XpertHR is conducting a pay forecasting survey to gauge private-sector employers' pay intentions over the coming year, and would like to invite you to take part.

• Never mind the gender pay gap: here's the gender pensions gap

  Date:

  26 July 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  There have been exhaustive discussions on the gender pay gap, but what about the huge chasm between women's pension wealth and what men are able to accumulate for retirement? Nikki Thompson explains.

• Pay awards: 25 July 2019

  Date:

  25 July 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  The table summarises the latest pay settlements monitored by XpertHR.

• Pay trends July 2019: Summer stability in pay awards

  Date:

  25 July 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Pay awards continue to hold up well at the halfway point in the year, as our analysis finds the median unchanged at 2.5%.

• Recruiting graduates and apprentices survey 2019/2020

  Date:

  24 July 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR research provides insights on the recruitment and reward of graduates and apprentices in 2019/2020.

• Off-payroll working: How IR35 rules affect the private sector

  Date:

  17 July 2019

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Despite a raft of problems concerning IR35 "off-payroll" rules in the public sector, HM Revenue & Customs last week confirmed that from 6 April 2020, the tax regulations extend to the private sector. Caroline Harwood explains how businesses need to prepare.

• Pay As You Earn

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on the Government's response to its consultation on, and proposed legislation to implement, reforms to IR35 in the private sector.

• IR35: HMRC publishes private sector tax rules

  Date:

  11 July 2019

  Type:

  News

  Organisations have just nine months to prepare for changes to off-payroll working rules, which are being extended to the private and third sectors, with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) publishing draft legislation today.

• Boris Johnson pledges to 'fix' pension tax allowance rules

  Date:

  10 July 2019

  Type:

  News

  Tory leadership front runner Boris Johnson has vowed to "fix" the pension rules that have led to NHS consultants finding they are better off if they work fewer hours.