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
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
An employer has faced criticism after it offered a three-month internship at a rate of £20 per day, i.e. less than the national minimum wage (NMW) - but this isn’t necessarily illegal. What does the
law say about paying interns?
Published 09.03.2015
The CSA has sent you a Deductions from Earnings Order (DEO) in respect of child maintenance payments which it says are owed by an employee. Must you notify the employee that this DEO has been
received?
Published 11.06.2013
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
Last month, for whatever reason, you were late in processing payroll data. This meant that staff received their pay a week late. Some of them are very unhappy and demanding compensation. Do you have
to pay it?
Published 28.06.2008
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
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
In October 2017 a prankster handed Theresa May a P45. Although she hasn’t changed jobs, this document must be given to an employee when they leave your employment. Does the law state by when you must
issue it?
Published 20.10.2017