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The 2026 umbrella crackdown If your business relies on agency workers or contractors, you might assume that how they get paid is entirely the responsibility of the recruitment agency or their chosen umbrella company. For years, many businesses have taken...

Continuity of service is one of those concepts that sits quietly in the background of employment law until the moment it matters enormously. It can be the difference between an employee having real protection against dismissal and having almost none....

As an employer, you want to look after your team’s health and wellbeing. Offering to cover the cost of routine healthcare like eye tests and seasonal flu vaccinations is a brilliant way to show you care. But historically, the tax...

Salary sacrifice schemes look simple on paper. Reduce the salary, provide the benefit, process the payroll on the lower figure. What is there to get wrong? Quite a lot, as it turns out. After years of working with businesses across...

Mandatory payrolling of benefits in Kind (BiKs)comes into effect on 6 April 2027. But on 15 June 2026, HMRC confirmed that the shape of that deadline will change considerably -: rather than mandating payrolling for all benefits at once, the...

If you have been keeping one eye on employment law over the last year or so, you will have seen the Fair Work Agency coming. It launched on 7 April 2026, and for the first time, the enforcement of workers’...

Most employers know the basic idea of salary sacrifice. The employee gives up some salary and gets a benefit instead – everyone saves on tax and National Insurance. Unfortunately, like many things in payroll, salary sacrifice isn’t as simplistic as...