In order to streamline your admin costs you’re considering ditching printed payslips and sending PDF versions via e-mail instead. However, one of your employees insists that this practice is illegal.
Are they correct?
Published 23.03.2015
When completing their new starter form, an employee has crossed through the bank details section and written that they would like their “wages paid in cash”. Even if this is legally possible, is it
wise?
Published 31.10.2012
One of our subscribers wants to know if it’s legal to send employees their payslips by e-mail. On the face of it there’s nothing to stop them doing this. But are there any hidden dangers lurking
behind the scenes?
Published 09.03.2010
An employee is entitled to receive an itemised statement of pay on, or before, their pay date which sets out their gross and net pay amounts. When it comes to the actual deductions made, what
information must you provide?
Published 20.11.2014
You must give an employee a P45 when they leave your employment. But does the law state how long you have to issue a P45 and what happens if you can’t provide this document to the employee before
they start a new job?
Published 23.03.2023
As a careful employer you always provide your employees with an itemised pay statement, often called a payslip, at the point you pay them. But where do you stand if a member of staff says it’s
incorrect?
Published 02.06.2009
Under the government’s Job Retention Scheme you can “furlough” employees and claim 80% of each individual’s wage costs, up to a cap of £2,500 per month. Do you have to pay the remaining 20%?
Published 08.04.2020
A colleague is having problems recovering an over-payment of salary made to an employee who’s recently left. What should you have in place to avoid the same problems in your workplace?
Published 09.02.2006
An employer demanded that an employee repay £20,000 after it discovered that she had been overpaid for more than ten years. When an historic overpayment is spotted, can you make an automatic
deduction from the employee’s salary?
Published 26.10.2020