Home and car winter tips
Keeping your home and car in top condition during the winter months can be a challenge, with varying degrees of severe weather it’s always good to know the top tips…
Monthly Archives: December 2015
New Year’s Resolutions
New Year; new you. We all think the New Year will bring motivation to make the changes we have been wanting to for a while, and it might be the…
Smoke and carbon monoxide: Landlords raise the alarm!
Only 83 per cent of properties in the private rented sector have working smoke alarms, despite the fact that 40 per cent of fire-related deaths occur in properties without working…
Swapping annuities for cash
The Government has announced that from April 2017 tax restrictions for pensioners wanting to sell their annuities will be removed. This means that anyone who already has, or is going…
The changing face of Santa (and Employment)…
A glance at the festive TV schedules will confirm that Christmas remains a time for repeats. So with that in mind, I thought that I would conclude my posts for 2015 with…
Keep Christmas merry by protecting your child’s presents
There was a time when the value of what a child kept in their school bag wasn’t enough to buy, well, a new school bag. Times have changed. The relentless march of new technology means…
Social Media: the business benefits and risks
Social media is something that evokes excitement as well as fear, providing the possibility of unlimited reach as well as risks to your business. The phenomenon is shaping the way…
Employers ‘largely unaware’ of the launch of Fit for Work service, shows research from Jelf
Research by Jelf Employee Benefits reveals that few employers have yet to be made officially aware of the introduction and availability of the new government-funded initiative to reduce sickness absence…
2016/17 automatic enrolment thresholds
Hot of the press from the government website this morning are the proposed pension auto-enrolment triggers and band earnings for the next tax year. Such detail is of course important given that…
Employer-supported volunteering: An objective view
Earlier this year I wrote about the Conservative Party manifesto commitment to introduce a new employment entitlement for employees connected with employer-supported volunteering (ESV). This new rule is intended to extend to all…