Don't Miss Out - Optimise Your Net PayIn the ever evolving legislative landscape, working within Social Care you may be entitled to offset expenses.This is particularly relevant when providing home care support and/or when your work takes you across multiple sites.At ePayMe, we recognise how hard you work for your money, and we work hard to ensure your net pay position is the best it possibly can be.Of course, we do this with compliance front of mind and ensure all deductions and … [Read more...]
The clock is ticking……………………. ACT NOW
AS16………….IR35……………Are you ready?April 6th, 2017 is fast approaching and with that comes all the changes relating to IR35 legislation. Whilst the Public Sector dominates the spotlight for the change, the private sector doesn’t go unnoticed.Within the Public Sector, we are seeing legislative change, like we’ve never seen before. The most significant factor seeing the end client being responsible for the compliance of their contractors.Don’t underestimate this change. The new rules will … [Read more...]
Umbrella vs In-house PAYE
Finding it difficult to decide? Are you stuck between using an agency which offers internal PAYE or working for an Umbrella company? There are a few things you’ll need to consider before you make a decision.One of the main benefits of Umbrella over in-house PAYE is that with Umbrella you are fully covered by employment rights throughout. This includes statutory payments, such as; sick pay, maternity/paternity pay and holiday pay (if you do not opt out). Your workers’ rights are not always … [Read more...]
IR35 – are you missing the elephant in the room?
The new “off payroll” rules for workers in the public sector are planned to go live on 6 April.HMRC have issued some guidance with more promised in the next few weeks and the draft legislation has been published but is likely to change before it is finalised.We have an unfinished status tool that won't be ready for public consumption until the end of February.Some public sector organisations are making knee jerk decisions around the status of their contractors and expecting that … [Read more...]
Hermes facing legal challenge from its self-employed workers
Move is being led by GMB union on behalf of couriers who believe delivery company wrongly classes them as self-employedHermes, the courier company that delivers parcels for John Lewis and Next, is facing a legal claim from workers who believe they are wrongly classed as self-employed, according to the Labour MP Frank Field.Speaking on Thursday, he said the move is being orchestrated by the GMB union. It follows a Guardian investigation that found Hermes was paying some of its couriers at … [Read more...]
75 Days to go…
As we have stated previously, 'Do you operate in the Public Sector?’, one thing is clear, the landscape of temporary workers within the Public Sector will be affected by the imminent changes to the IR35 regulations. On Wednesday this week, TfL announced that they would no longer be accepting workers who operate through their own Professional Services Company (PSC) and we expect that this will be a continuing trend. The NHS has already ordered hospitals and healthcare institutes to stop paying … [Read more...]
Status of ‘gig’ economy workers thrown into question again
The status of workers in the ‘gig’ economy has been thrown back into the spotlight, following a ruling that a courier with logistics firm City Sprint should be classed as a worker rather than self-employed.The BBC reported late last week a tribunal classed Maggie Dewhurst, the courier in question, as a worker, and therefore should be entitled to basic rights including holiday and sick pay, and the National Living Wage.City Sprint said it was "disappointed" at the ruling and will review … [Read more...]
NHS IT agency foresees PSCs moving to brollies
Contractors who supply the NHS through limited companies will likely move to umbrella companies before April’s IR35 reform comes into force, a health service IT recruiter predicts.Contractors’ next best alternative is to leave the public sector or the NHS for the private sector instead, says Don Tomlinson, managing director of NHS IT staffing firm max20.Tomlinson sounded aware that contractors who don’t act before April will have a third option -- stay as a limited company and accept the … [Read more...]
HMRC reveals plans for new public sector IR35 legislation—industry responds
This Monday saw the release of the HMRC’s draft finance bill, detailing the reforms as to how the IR35 legislation must be operated in the public sector from April 2017.There have been strong reactions from industry bodies to the Government’s new ‘Draft provisions for Finance Bill 2017’, nearly 400 pages of new tax legislation setting out the draft provisions for technical consultation, including changes to National Insurance contributions, clampdown on salary sacrifice contracts for new car … [Read more...]
NHS boss ‘orders a stop to payments to PSCs’
Hospitals have been ordered to simply stop paying external managers through personal service companies.Jim Mackay, chief executive of health service regulator NHS Improvement, reportedly issues the order in a letter he sent to hospital leaders on Tuesday.Seen by the Times, the letter states that interims in leadership roles can be hired only if they are set clear goals and held to account for failure to achieve them.The criteria come after Mr Mackay wrote there is sometimes either … [Read more...]