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Employed or Self employed?

Employment requires the following

Personal Service

Control

Mutuality of Obligations

Personal Service

Who is required to undertake the work?

Substitution?

Control

Who decides how and when the work is performed?

Mutuality of obligations

Employer is obliged to offer work and employee obliged to accept that work.

Other Factors

Financial Risk

Equipment

Duration of Contract

Other Contracts

Intention

Getting it wrong

Employee rights

PAYE

Auto-enrolment (workplace pension)

Anna Pepler, Director

Do you want to grow your business?

Employing staff

Should you do it?....

What should you think about?

Employed V Self Employed Can you afford it? Take that leap Be clear on roles and responsibilities Compare against other jobs in market place Hours, Location, Pay, Benefits….

Payroll

You need to pay people!!!

Must be issued with payslip by law Must detail deductions Must be paid in line with T+C’s

Contract of employments

You need to pay people!!!

A written statement of terms of conditions Signed copy on file Must be given within 8 weeks of start date

Insurance

You must have public liability and professional indemnity

Must cover staff members Must display certificate where employees can read

(can be online)

Insurance

You must have public liability and professional indemnity

Must cover staff members Must display certificate where employees can read

(can be online)

Holidays and sickness

• Holiday– 28 days (Including Public/Bank Holidays)– Pro Rata for Part Time Staff– New starters entitlement pro-rata to full holiday year– Holiday accrual during absence– Holiday pay / termination of employment

• Sickness– SSP at current government rate– No reclaim– Payable for 28 weeks– Long term sickness – disabilities

Pensions

Auto Enrolment – compulsory for employers of any size to auto enrol employees into a pension scheme

An employer also required to make contributions to that pension scheme, unless staff members opt out

Less than 30 staff by 1st April 2017 30-49 members 2015

FEARS?

Remember we are here to help!

PAYE

Rachel Baker,Director

PAYE

Decide to take on employee

Register with HMRC Receive reference numbers from HMRC

Collect data from employee – P45/New starter form

Choose software and set up [will need ref. no. for this]

Process employee’s gross pay

Submit RTI report to HMRC

Make payment of net pay to employee

Extract report of PAYE due

Make payment to HMRC

Making your employees your brand ambassadors

Your business cycle

It has changed…

Why engaging employees matters

It’s really simple…If you engage people they will…. Perform betterWork harderStay with you longer = business success!

You are your brand…

Your brand is how you want people feel about your business…..

You are your brand…

  “The reason employees are great brand ambassadors is because people trust people like themselves more than anyone else in the

organisation.”

Great examples of employeebrand ambassadors

Six ways to create brand ambassadors

1. Strong leadership 

2. Common goal 

3. Rules of the game

4. Celebrate success!

5. Support risk taking 

6. 100% involvement and inclusion

                                

And finally…

Growth Vouchers

Up to £2,000 matched funding

Can be used for strategic business advice on

Expanding your workforce

Finance and cashflow

Marketing and customer service

IT and web

Leadership and management

Growth Vouchers

Conditions include 

Business must be in England 

Must be actively selling goods or services

Not all eligible business will be entitled to vouchers 

(selected randomly from applications)

Growth Vouchers

Scheme due to end 31 March 2015 

Advice must be obtained from an approved supplier 

To apply and for more details 

https://www.gov.uk/apply-growth-vouchers

https://marketplace.enterprisenation.com/

  

Any questions…?

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