Pay and benefits

New and updated

• Right to work: Employer wrong to rely on checking service

  Date:

  17 December 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Badara v Pulse Healthcare Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer should not have relied solely on negative Home Office checks when it dismissed the employee for failing to provide right to work documentation.

• How OVO Energy launched a workplace ISA to help its employees get on the housing ladder

  Date:

  16 December 2019

  Type:

  Case studies

  OVO Energy talks to XpertHR about its approach to financial wellbeing and how it is helping its young workforce to save the money they need to buy their first house.

• Cases on appeal

  Type:

  Law reports

  Updated to reflect that the Court of Appeal will not hear the appeal in Awan v ICTS UK Ltd because the parties reached a settlement.

• IR35: Three things public-sector HR needs to know about the April 2020 reforms

  Date:

  3 December 2019

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  HR professionals in public authorities may think that the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector in April 2020 will not affect them. However, public-sector bodies need to be aware of some proposed changes to the rules.

• Take part in our reward priorities survey

  Date:

  2 December 2019

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  To find out what organisations are prioritising in the reward field over the next year, please complete XpertHR's survey on reward planning for 2020.

• Basic pay and benefits

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include revised advisory fuel rates, effective from 1 December 2019.

• What is IR35?

  Type:

  FAQs

• HMRC revamps CEST tool ahead of private sector IR35 rules

  Date:

  26 November 2019

  Type:

  News

  HM Revenue and Customs has updated its Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool ahead of the introduction of private sector IR35 rules next year. But concerns about its accuracy remain.

• Pay awards: 21 November 2019

  Date:

  21 November 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  The table summarises the latest pay settlements monitored by XpertHR.

• Pay trends November 2019: Median pay award rises

  Date:

  21 November 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  As we approach the end of the year XpertHR's headline measure of pay awards has increased slightly in the latest three-month period.