Issue 34 - February 2010 |
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Welcome to issue thirty four of transform-hr.com, our e-zine for HR and payroll professionals. In our special feature this issue we look at professional networking sites – The professional networking site ‘LinkedIn’ continues to grow in popularity but are such business networking sites an asset or a liability? We also have a range of articles from our opinion column looking at the rise and fall of salary sacrifice through to our regular legislation timetable ‘Legal Eagle’ in Industry Specials. Transform-hr.com will give you ideas, knowledge and inspiration to help you transform HR and payroll to deliver effective structures, policies, services and processes that can significantly impact your business in a positive way. transform-hr.com is a comprehensive online source of knowledge and thinking for the HR and payroll community. Therefore to ensure it provides the best service, responses and feedback to the topics discussed are critical to the e-zine's continued success! |
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Professional Networking SitesThe professional networking site 'LinkedIn' continues to grow in popularity but are such business networking sites an asset or a liability? [more] |
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Too Hot to Handle - The Rise and Fall of Salary Sacrifice[more] |
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Agency workers' Regulations 2010At the moment, most agency workers are not protected in the same way as direct employees. This is soon to change... [more] |
also in industry specials this issue: |
Childcare VouchersChildcare vouchers are a method for parents to pay for childcare facilities using salary sacrifice... [more] |
Strategic Reward Management and Integrated HR SystemsHow critical is the role of Reward in the implementation of a new HR system? [more] |
Extension to Parental LeaveThe European Union are proposing an extension to existing parental leave rights... [more] |
The Use of Mobile Phones Whilst DrivingDriving is one of the most dangerous work activities... [more] |
Greener Transport OptionsThe role that employers will have to play, should the UK government stand by its commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% over the next 40 years, could be significant... [more] |
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Overview of a Redundancy within a SchoolWith the allocation of the School Budget there may be difficult decisions ahead regarding staffing levels... [more] |
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Recent changes to employing migrant workersThe rules for advertising vacancies in order to employ migrant workers have recently changed... [more] |
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Legal EagleHere is a summary of forthcoming legislation that could affect you and your company... [more] |
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Indication of 6 May Election[more] |
also in ipp news this issue: |
UK economy emerges from recession[more] |
Staff absences due to snow…[more] |
New rates for statutory payments[more] |
Increase in credit card payment fee[more] |
Tax credits calculator updated[more] |
HMRC fail to collect £11bn say Public Accounts Committee[more] |
HMRC tightens up two popular salary sacrifice schemes[more] |
Forthcoming changes to the car benefit rules[more] |
HMRC Dispensations – new online application form[more] |
A change to the student loan box on form P46[more] |
New termination payment rules for civil servants[more] |
Pre-claim conciliation - a free Acas service[more] |
Employees can lose holiday by failing to comply with notice requirements[more] |
UK Identity Cards - Is your business ready for the new identity cards?[more] |
Pay gap narrowing but still unacceptably high[more] |
Gender pay gap reporting - immunity[more] |
Employer supported childcare[more] |
Proposals to let parents decide who looks after the baby[more] |
Government publishes Family Friendly Green Paper[more] |
Uprating leads to downrating![more] |
New version of 'Using your own vehicle for work' published[more] |
Right to Request Training Guidance Published[more] |
UK workers are giving away £27 billion of unpaid overtime[more] |
Pre-employment health questionnaire ban backed by HR chiefs[more] |
£500,000 fines for serious data protection breaches[more] |
Record number of taxpayers filed their SA tax returns online this year[more] |
Massive upsurge over tax return e-mail 'phishing' scam[more] |
National Insurance rebates[more] |
BIS Publishes Guidance on Annual Leave and Sick Leave[more] |
New medical statement – consultation response[more] |
Salary Sacrifice - employer-provided canteens[more] |
Flexible working for all?[more] |
Union to hold strike ballot over redundancy 'cuts'[more] |
Firms must publish complaints data[more] |
Launch of Apprenticeship Week 2010[more] |
Minimum pension age to rise to 55 from April 2010[more] |