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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Ian Hurst
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...
Budget Tax Guide 2022
WHATS New in Paymaster Budget Tax Guide 2022 Tabling the national budget at Parliament on Wednesday,Finance Minister Godongwana announced no major tax increases, saying this was not the time, given SA’s fragile economic...
Lezé Felton
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Bursaries and Skills Development: Education for a Better South Africa
Access to education is a tremendous challenge in South Africa. Schooling at all levels costs money. Many employees all over the country struggle to afford even basic education and yet it is such a vital pillar of the...
Matt Newnham
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...
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POPI and payroll: What you need to know?
The final regulations for the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) were published in December 2018. This means that the Act is now in force. Most people only have a vague outline of what POPI means, but what...
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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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The Employee Tax Incentive (ETI) scheme — What it’s all about
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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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...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) for payroll & payroll functions
Author: Adrian Baillie-Stewart — Director and Content Strategist at Content Strategics (Pty) Ltd Editor’s note — This is the fourth article in the four-part series of articles published exclusively for Paymaster People...
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2017 — The Year Ahead for the HR Industry
Author: Ian Hurst — Managing Director, Paymaster People Solutions Sitting on the beach, watching beachgoers and holidaymakers bodysurfing or having fun in the waves is a great way to relax. It is also a time of...
