Finance

Learn how to present your financial management skills and achievements effectively on your CV, demonstrating your value to potential employers.

Agency Work and Contracting

Many companies will from time to time, seek to employ temporary workers via recruitment agencies or will outsource particular work they need doing to contrac...

Employment Tax Issues

The issue of tax is something that often seems complicated to the majority of us yet taxes are unavoidable and it’s important to grasp the ‘essentials’...

How to Get a Pay Rise

Many of us go to work and on occasion, feel that we are undervalued and underpaid but, apart from an annual company pay review, most of us do not seek to rec...

National Minimum Wage

The National Minimum Wage is a legal obligation which must be met by employers and which covers almost the entire UK workforce in order to prevent the exploi...

Negotiate a Better Settlement...and Keep Your Job

Many people are forced into looking for a new job not because they want to move on, but because they are simply not being paid enough. This has seldom been a...

P45 and P60: What You Need to Know

Starting a new job can seem to entail a never-ending ream of paper, forms and bureaucracy. Much of this paperwork is attributable to the taxman. It is vital...

Part Time Working

Back in 2000 the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations were introduced to ensure that part-time workers were treated just a...

Taking Out a Pension

Provided your earnings are more than the National Insurance lower earnings limit (£87 in tax year 2007-8) and where a company consists of at least 5 employe...

Understanding 'Emergency Tax'

So-called ‘emergency tax’ is one of the most irritating, and potentially costly, problems facing employees moving jobs. The situation is a common one: yo...

Working Tax Credits

Working tax credits are part of the UK’s system of means-tested social security benefits designed to help individuals and families who are on low incomes....