Payroll & Reward Brunch - 27 May 2021 - i-Realise

Payroll & Reward Brunch
27 May 2021

Payroll & Reward Brunch

               Ian Holloway
               Payroll Consultant

Purpose:
• A regular session for payroll and reward professionals
• Share thoughts and knowledge for your benefit
• Allow you to tell us what you want to discuss
• Two-way – share your thoughts and experiences on topics

              Submit any questions/comments via the chat box at the
                      bottom and we will discuss at the end.

Agenda

  • The devolved Government elections
     • Scotland
     • Wales
  • The Queen’s Speech
  • Bits and pieces
     • The Payroll Administrator Apprenticeship review
     • i-Realise KPI update.

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May 2021 Elections

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SCOTLAND

NORTHERN IRELAND
                                      ENGLAND

                   WALES

Scotland

           • 65 MSPs for a majority
           • SNP-led administration, not SNP-controlled.

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Scotland - people

Nicola Sturgeon – First Minister   Kate Forbes – Economy and Finance         Humza Yousaf - Health

       Keith Brown - Justice                       Shirley–Anne Somerville – Education and Skills

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SNP Manifesto

  • Scottish Income Tax ‘aims’:
      • ‘Over the course of the next parliament we will freeze Income Tax rates and bands’
      • Thresholds will be increased by ‘a maximum of inflation’
  • Strengthening tax powers:
      • ‘the devolution of VAT, and full powers over income tax and National Insurance
        contributions’
      • A UK Income Tax and NICs structure and a Scottish one?!
  • Independence:
      • Pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament (SNP + Scottish Greens)
      • Indeyref2 looks likely.

                            SNP-led administration, not SNP-controlled

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SNP Manifesto

  • ‘Young Person’s Guarantee‘
      • Aged between 16 and 24 in Scotland
      • Based on ‘circumstances and ambitions’
      • University, college, an apprenticeship, training, work placement, volunteer programme
  • Employment
      •   Explore the benefits of a 4-day working week
      •   ‘Call’ for the full devolution of employment rights
      •   Independence would achieve that, though
      •   If devolved, employment rights UK (England and Wales), Northern Ireland and Scotland
  • The Scottish Agricultural Wage
      • Work with the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board to ensure payments at the Real Living
        Wage.

                             SNP-led administration, not SNP-controlled

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Wales

        • 31 MSs for a majority
        • Welsh Labour-led administration, not Welsh Labour-controlled.

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Wales - people

Mark Drakeford – First Minister   Rebecca Evans - Finance        Vaughan Gething – Economy

   Eluned Morgan - Health                         Jeremy Miles – Education and Welsh Language

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Welsh Labour Manifesto

  • Welsh Rates of Income Tax:
      • ‘Not take more in Welsh rates of income tax from Welsh families for at least as long as the
        economic impact of coronavirus lasts’
      • Implies WRIT powers will be used
  • Tax devolution:
      • ‘Make the case for clear and stable tax devolution for Wales that is fit for purpose’
  • Employment and apprenticeships:
      • ‘Young Persons Guarantee’ (similar to Scotland)
      • ‘Improve workers’ rights, drive up the quality of jobs and public services’
      • Carers to be paid Real Living Wage
      • ‘Address pay gaps based on gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability and other forms
        of discrimination’ – public sector
      • Creation of more apprenticeships.

                             Labour-led administration, not Labour-controlled

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The Queen's Speech

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The Queen’s Speech May 2021

  • The National Insurance Bill
      • Legislate for veteran’s employer’s NI holiday
      • Legislate for Freeports NI holiday
  • The Subsidy Control Bill
      • The UK replacement for the European Union State Aid framework
  • The Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
      • General Elections as per the Prime Minister, not fixed dates
  • The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill
      • The ‘flexible Lifelong Loan Entitlement’
  • The Employment Bill?
      • Neonatal leave and pay (from 2023)
      • Extensions to employment protections
      • The right to request flexible working for all workers.

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Other

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Bits and Pieces

  • Advisory Fuel Rates from 01 June 2021
      • All petrol and LPG changes, 1 diesel fuel change
  • Right to Work Checks
      •   COVID-19 adjusted checks allowed scans or photographs of original documents
      •   Was due to end 16 May 2021
      •   Now ending 20 June 2021
      •   From 21 June 2021, face-to-face and original document checks
  • HMRC’s CJRS Taxpayer Protection Taskforce
      • Writing to 10,000 employers
      • Check claims – see ‘Pay Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme grants back’
  • Payroll KPIs
      • Working party established and correspondence on-going to develop our model
  • Level 3 Payroll Administrator Apprenticeship
      • Undergoing a 3-yearly review.

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Next Brunch – 24 June 2021

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                    Payroll Consultant
                    iholloway@i-realise.co.uk
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