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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
18 August 2011
Could your IT Consultants really be your Employees after all?
Many IT consultants work under HMRC’s IR35 rules that are designed to prevent independent contractors (usually IT contractors), who would otherwise be liable for income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs), avoiding them in favour of the lower rates of tax available if they work through the intermediary of their own personal service company (PSC).
18 August 2011
Amendments to Agency Workers Regulations 2010
The Government has published last-minute amendments to correct drafting errors in the Agency Workers Regulations 2010.
15 August 2011
Getting rid of maternity leave
David Cameron’s strategy director Steve Hilton reportedly suggested that the solution to the economic crisis is to abolish maternity leave. He believes this will cut red tape and kick start the economy. This is less “blue sky thinking” and more “living in cloud cuckoo land”.
13 July 2011
Modern workplaces and red tape
Yesterday I attended a fascinating debate at the TUC. It was chaired by Louisa Peacock at the Daily/Sunday Telegraph and the two principle speakers were David Frost, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, and Brendan Barber, the TUC General Secretary, alongside Jo Lloyd, non-executive director of a small to medium size marketing company (Z Cards), and Siobhan Endean of the Union Unite.
8 July 2011
Should Employers prioritise unemployed Britons in their recruitment processes over foreign workers?
Ian Duncan-Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, stoked the coals of controversy recently by urging employers in the UK to “give our young people a chance, and not fall back on labour from abroad”. The issue is still a hot potato four years after Gordon Brown’s ill-fated campaign in 2007 to create “British jobs for British workers”.