National Minimum Wage & National Living Wage Increase

The National minimum wage, as well as the National Living Wage have been announced and are due to rise again this April 2023. The ‘National Minimum Wage’ is the minimum rate per hour (ph) that employers are obligated by law to pay their employees under the age of 23 years, almost all workers under 23 […]

Suggestions to Lower National Insurance

The team have enjoyed reading the latest blog from Recruiter.co.uk regarding the government potentially cutting National Insurance rates as a way of kick starting employment. We’d love to hear your thoughts. The government should cut National Insurance rates to reduce the cost of hiring as one measure to kick start employment, the CEO of the […]

Simple Recruitment Holiday Memo

The new holiday year has started and hence we thought it prudent to remind our temporary workers of our ‘Holiday Pay Process’, this would have also been discussed with you at the point of registration and detailed on the application forms you signed at the outset. If you wish to take holiday you must request […]

What Are The Qualifying Criteria For SSP?

SSP is payable to employees and certain other ‘employed earners’ who pay Class 1 NI contributions, such as agency workers – they are treated as employees for SSP purposes. It’s paid for sickness absence – when an employee is unable to work or is deemed unable to work (when certain conditions apply). As of 13 […]

National Minimum Wage

With the National Minimum & Living Wage increasing annually each April, the team at Simple Recruitment have been doing our research, we’d love to share with you some of the tips we have picked up along the way.   What is the National Minimum Wage? The National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage are […]

‘Request for Holiday’ Process

MEMO TO OUR TEMPORARY WORKERS ‘Request for Holiday’ Process If you wish to take holiday you must request it – first with your line manager at your place of assignment, once this has been agreed by them, please notify us (Simple Recruitment) of the relevant holiday dates, so we can then ensure this gets paid […]

Christmas Payroll Deadline

Friday 20th December Timesheets for work carried out 16th – 20th are required no later than 4pm on Friday the 20th of December. Friday 27th December Timesheets for work carried out 23rd – 27th are required no later than 4pm on Friday the 27th of December. PLEASE NOTE: We will not be chasing timesheets/hours for […]