Without stating the obvious, South Africa has a huge unemployment problem. Stats SA estimates that unemployment is at 27.5%—that’s almost 3 in every 10 people. Even worse, according to Stats SA, unemployment among...
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Matt Newnham
Paymaster People Solutions—A comprehensive HR and Payroll software solution (Part 2)
Introducing Paymaster People Solutions Paymaster People Solutions is a progressive South African human resources and payroll software solutions provider. Trailblazers in easy to use, reliable and modern technology...
Paymaster People Solutions—A comprehensive HR and Payroll software solution (Part 1)
Introducing Paymaster People Solutions Paymaster People Solutions is a progressive South African human resources and payroll software solutions provider. Trailblazers in easy to use, reliable and modern technology...
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...
Ian Hurst
Employee self-service—The new normal
Author: Ian Hurst — Managing Director, Paymaster People Solutions Employee self-service Employee self-service (ESS) in its most basic form, is the ability for employees to apply for leave, collect their payslips and...
Adrian Baillie-Stewart
It only takes 1 bad apple to infect the rest
Author: Renier Krige, Founder and CEO of HRDirect You might know the saying, “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch.” But, is this true from a business and team perspective? The answer is yes! Behavioural research...
Are you responding to countless payroll-related questions? Here’s how to recover 3 hours of your valuable ‘lost time’…
Problem: are you responding to countless payroll-related enquiries? Often, it seems as if all of our time is consumed by responding to staff and colleagues’ countless payroll-related questions. This type of time-wasting...
Unpacking employee working hours
Working hours regulations applies to specific employees According to the Basic Conditions of Employment (BCEA) Amendment Act 2014, working hours regulations apply to employees who fall within the earnings threshold of...
Which employee-related records must I keep in order to sleep peacefully at night?
An organisation has a legislated obligation to keep employee-related records South African legislation makes it very clear that you, the employer, have an obligation to keep employee-related records. You need to make...
6 Ways To Motivate Employees by Using Little to No Money At All
Keeping your employees happy and motivated is a key ingredient to running your small business. Did you know that 13% of employee separations are voluntary—and it’s usually the best and brightest ones who move on the...
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Hat 8 — The Payroll Professional as Counsellor
Hat 8 — The Payroll Professional as Counsellor People trust payroll people. They like to tell us about their situation and then ask us for advice. We listen and sometimes that is enough. Often we give them the company...
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Hat 7 — 3 Levels of Trust
Hat 7 — 3 Levels of Trust Trust is earned. It’s something all payroll professionals acquire upon joining a payroll department. It’s naturally assumed that when you’re a staffer in a payroll department, that...
