Pay & Remuneration

Are you guilty of implementing an uninspiring performance-related bonus scheme for your employees? You know the type—a meagre 2% of their salary if they miraculously achieve tough goals within an unrealistic timeframe. If this sounds familiar, I have some news for you: it's simply not...

What happens if this year, like many other businesses around the country, you’re struggling to afford it? First you need to understand your contractual obligations when it comes to paying a bonus. Simply put, if your contract states that employees will receive a Christmas bonus, they...

The 9th to the 15th October is the 20th annual Baby Loss Awareness Week. In the UK, it’s estimated that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss during pregnancy or birth. This means that if you employ people, it’s likely that at some point this will...

Whether or not voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay calculations has been a popular topic of discussion recently. It has been argued that organisations who do not pay their employees for exerting voluntary overtime should rethink their calculations, since we are increasingly finding ourselves experiencing more expensive...

We know we are at risk of becoming boring now, we’ve talked about this a lot lately, but the issue of holiday pay and overtime is still cropping up regularly with our clients so we wanted to set out the latest. It doesn’t make pleasant reading...

Image Credit: Flickr Commons, Seattle Municipal Archives, Sails & Trails Club circa 1932 After a brief spell of freezing weather last week, it reminds us that there are few wise steps to take to ensure your business runs as smoothly as possible over days like these...

Sick pay is a notoriously tricky one to get right. Schemes in the public sector have had some generous offerings, such as 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay including pay for the first 3 ‘waiting days’. But as you can expect, with...