Time-and-a-half, double-time and normal hours Accurate capturing and managing your employees’ hours worked is essential, and a reliable and reputable time and attendance system will ensure your Payroll department...
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Subsistance Allowance: What’s it all about?
Photo credit: Seniv Petro – www.freepik.com Travel is, once again, becoming part of the work place. Since travel involves expenses, companies can either pay for accommodation and meals ( and reimburse incidental...
10 Hats Worn by Payroll Professionals: Hat 3 — Gatekeeper of compliance
This is part 3 in the 10-part series entitled 10 Hats Worn by Payroll Professionals. Click to read part 1 and part 2 In my previous article dealing with the issue of record keeping, I explained that payroll...
The Paymaster People Solutions story: 20 Years of successful payroll processing
Corporate days at Bergers Stores Back in 1997, Ian Hurst and Karen Morrison worked for Bergers Stores, a large clothing retail chain owned by the Morkels Group. Ian was the Human Resource Manager and Karen was involved...
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10 Hats Worn by Payroll Professionals: Hat 2 — The payroll professional as accurate keeper of records
This is part 2 in the 10 part series — Read part 1 here (click) No pressure, but did you know that, when asked, your reputation as an efficient payroll professional is built upon the fact that you can efficiently and...
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10 Hats Worn by Payroll Professionals: Hat 1 — The payroll professional as implementer of legislation
Legislation drives the payroll profession Legislation drives the payroll profession. Proud payroll professionals don’t do anything that is not prescribed by law. Based on what legislation prescribes, payroll...
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Ten month article series presented by Paymaster: 10 Hats Worn by Payroll Professionals
Author: Ian Hurst — Managing Director, Paymaster People Solutions #ProudPayrollProfessionals I am a proud payroll professional. A few months ago, while talking to a group of Payroll people I was asked, “What will the...
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New Year’s Resolutions 2019
Author: Ian Hurst — Managing Director, Paymaster People Solutions Most people believe that 5 new year’s resolutions are manageable. Any more than 5, and keeping to these resolutions becomes an impossible challenge. Any...
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For a better 2019 transform these 5 payroll challenges into New Year’s resolutions
Author: Ian Hurst — Managing Director, Paymaster People Solutions Payroll in 2018 has been a challenge. Then again, Payroll every year becomes more and more challenging as we try to keep up with all the new things being...
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great...
What do your employees think? Fostering great employee-relations using online-surveys
Author: Ian Hurst — Managing Director, Paymaster People Solutions Consider this scenario… …The phone rings in your office and one of your employees answers the incoming call. The client on the other end of the...
Minimum wage decisions—Ignoring them will not make them go away
Author: Ian Hurst — Managing Director, Paymaster People Solutions The minimum wage will be introduced on the 1 August 2018. The minimum wage will be set at R20 per hour. This means that an employee who works a 40-hour...
