Employment Law for Payroll

In the last nine years, this government has introduced 35 new employee rights.

This course focuses on key areas of employment law that affect payroll.

It provides an insight into many diverse areas, including lawful and unlawful deductions from pay, which is currently the biggest source of complaint to Employment Tribunals and the recovery of overpayments of salary.


Course Programme:

• Employment status – who is an employee & who is self-employed?
• What are the consequences of getting it wrong?
• TUPE – what are the payroll implications regarding deductions & administration of
   court orders?
• How does TUPE 2006 differ from 1981 regulations?
• Contracts of employment – how to vary terms including pay
• Entitlements – holiday pay & other payments
• Statutory paid leave are you paying the correct amount? How to avoid the pitfalls
• Deductions – what is lawful & unlawful?
• Recovery of an overpayment of salary – is it legal? What are the rules?
• Termination of employment – redundancy & dismissal and the implications where a   salary sacrifice is in place
• Absence due to ill health – the legal position
• Maternity rights – the rights & wrongs and how statutory paid leave affects maternity leave
• Extension to the provision of non pay benefits during maternity leave
• The latest news on holiday accrual during sick leave
• Agency workers rights
• The principles of Equal Pay
• Age discrimination – how does this affect payroll?
• Pre-employment checks for potential new employees and employees transferred
   under TUPE

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