Professional October 2017

Professional October 2017

Official publication of The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals

in Payroll, Pensions & Reward

Issue 34 October 2017

National Payroll Week 2017

Absence management Features and facets

Phantoms of the OpRA Beyond rehearsals

Intermediaries legislation Disguised employment

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“Don’t worry when you are not recognised, but strive to be worthy of recognition.” Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

National Payroll Week reminds employers, employees and the government of the essential role the payroll function plays in compliance, collection of taxes and delivery of social and employment policies. Seeing this year’s NPW CIPP staff awards Editor’s comment

crucial social/employment statutory requirement. Are the failures more extensive than currently being revealed (see page 20), and who should shoulder responsibility? This month’s feature topic is absence management (see pages 36–39) which is a continuing source of concern for employers. Mental ill-health is one of the main causes of long-term absence, resulting in15.8 million days being lost annually. Lisa Gillespie (page 39) quite rightly sets out a call to action from the government.

(pages 12/13) made me think about the well-deserved honours that I wish I’d bestowed on colleagues in finance and personnel departments from my distant payroll processing past. Might the CIPP’s staff awards be an inspirational prototype for future NPWs across the UK? Pages 8/9 feature an article on the national minimum/living wage. It seems increasingly evident large number of employers are failing – whether deliberately or otherwise – to comply with this

Mike Nicholas MCIPP AMBCS Editor

Chair’s message

For once I seem to be on terra firma in the UK and starting out at the busiest time in our CIPP payroll calendar. The House of Commons launch was a wonderful event, starting our celebrations

progress your chartered institute into the future. You will have an opportunity to vote online this year and full details can be found on the CIPP website. In the past, for whatever reason, our members have not always felt it necessary to vote for board candidates. With there being so many applicants this year, it’s more important than ever to look at the skills and experience of each candidate and ensure you are confident the board of directors have the make up to set the strategy for the CIPP, especially with the impending addition of a new membership level coming soon, to be announced at our Annual Conference. I’m really excited about our conference this year, and hope that I will get the opportunity to meet with as many of you as possible at our flagship event of the year.

‘Putting the spotlight on payroll’ at the beginning of National Payroll Week (see page 12). It was great to see and hear from so many payroll professionals. We followed that with our second Scottish National Conference where we heard from key note speaker Anton Colella, chief executive of ICAS (see page 14) and were informed about topical subjects – such as money laundering, the General >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62

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