Unless you have been hiding under a rock or marooned on a desert island for the past few months, you will undoubtedly have turned your attention to the General Data…

Not long into the 2017/18 tax year and already we know student loan thresholds for the tax year 2018/19. We already know the Plan 2 Student Loans threshold will be…

Mandatory Gender Pay Gap reporting came to the United Kingdom from April 2017 for reporting within 12 months.  To be more specific, it comes for ‘relevant employers’ with 250 or…

The ‘UK employment law case of the year’ hit the headlines on 28 October 2016, something that we had all been waiting for. Aslam and Others v Uber BV is…

As part of an open consultation / green paper entitled ‘Work, health and disability: improving lives’, the UK Government is vowing to ‘transform the employment prospects of disabled people and…

State Pension ages are to be reviewed. Yet, I’m not sure that I have come across something that is, seemingly, so simple yet made so complicated at every step of…

The pension contributions actually payable are determined by the individual scheme’s rules. However, for Automatic Enrolment there are minimum contributions that must be paid.  The combined 2015 Spending Review and…

The Lifetime Individual Savings Account (the Lifetime ISA or LISA) was announced in the March 2016 Budget.  This came with the announcement that ‘the government wants to help young people…

We already know that the Plan 2 Student Loans threshold will be £21,000 next year. The Student Loans Company Website reports that the Plan 1 repayment threshold will increase to…

One of the latest consultations released by HMRC is entitled ‘Simplification of the tax and National Insurance treatment of termination payments: government response and consultation on draft legislation’.  This is…

Summer has finally arrived and, with it, the age-old question about a maximum working temperature. This is a temperature above which it is not acceptable for employers to expect employees…

Each year, software developers receive guidance from HMRC on the National Insurance Number (NINO) prefixes that their systems will recognise. Such guidance (page 166) came on 02 November 2015 to…