Holiday pay rules for irregular workers are one of the most misunderstood areas of UK employment law. So it’s no surprise that SMEs find the legislation complicated. But it’s not because business owners aren’t trying to get it right. The rules changed in April 2024. Many of the most-visited government pages still carry outdated information […]
Outsourced employment is when two organisations share responsibilities for the same group of workers. This business relationship usually splits up responsibilities by having one organisation manage the day-to-day work while the other is the legal employer and manages HR, payroll and other types of admin. It can be a useful arrangement for smaller businesses or […]
For many UK employers, P11D filing is an annual compliance task that arrives, gets done and gets forgotten. This year is different. The 2026 filing season is expected to be the last full P11D cycle for several key benefits before HMRC begins phasing in mandatory payrolling from April 2027, with the majority of other benefits […]
For UK business owners, HR professionals or anyone who runs a business, Employer National Insurance 2026 is one of the biggest payroll costs you need to plan for, especially now the April 2025 changes are fully in effect. With so many other tasks to manage, it’s not surprising that many SMEs are still running on […]
It’s Monday morning. A new starter is joining on Wednesday. That means creating a record in your payroll platform, setting them up in your HR platform, adding them to the scheduling tool and sorting their clock-in access separately. Meanwhile, the payroll run is two days away and last week’s timesheets still need matching by hand […]
Running a business is hard. A lot of SMEs right now are running on the same unspoken strategy: get through this month, then the next one, then figure out the rest. That’s understandable. But survival mode has a ceiling. Stay in it long enough and it stops being a response to difficult conditions and starts […]
Bristol Bears is delighted to announce the renewal and expansion of their partnership with Employment Hero, with the AI-powered employment platform becoming the official sleeve partner of the men’s team for the 2026/27 season. As part of the enhanced agreement, the Employment Hero logo will feature prominently on the sleeve of the Bristol Bears men’s […]
Compliance has and always will be, a core responsibility for UK business owners and HR professionals. For many businesses, this has meant a full filing cabinet, a spreadsheet that very few people understood and anxiety about making sure everything adheres to UK employment law. But the volume and pace of regulatory change has moved well […]
AI is reshaping how companies find and hire people. It can screen hundreds of applications overnight, schedule interviews without a single email chain and surface candidates a recruiter might never have found manually. For businesses dealing with high-volume hiring or stretched HR teams, that efficiency is genuinely valuable. But AI in hiring also carries real […]
The Employment Rights Act 2025 has introduced a number of changes for UK businesses, including a new statutory duty to keep holiday and holiday pay records for a minimum of six years, what this article calls the ‘six-year records rule’, which came into effect on 6 April 2026. The newly launched Fair Work Agency (FWA) […]
