Last year saw the introduction and changes of multiple employment laws that have affected thousands of UK businesses, including first reports for the Gender Pay Gap, changes to benefit and pension rates, updates to National Minimum, National Living and Apprentice Wages and many more.
2019 is set to be a big year in terms of planned changes to employment and business law, especially with the advancement of Brexit and a confirmed leave date of 29th March 2019.
Topics: Industry Legislation
Following an excellent year of informative guides and thought-leadership pieces, Datum RPO have issued a list of our most-downloaded content throughout 2018.
Season's Greetings and a happy new year from Datum RPO.
Datum RPO would like to thank you for your continued and valued support and we would like to express our sincere appreciation for your business.
What a great way to spend a pre-Christmas Friday afternoon opening presents and wearing festive jumpers?
On 14th December 2018, Datum RPO continued to support the 20 charities selected in 2018 as part of the PAP 20:20 year-long campaign of fundraising activities, events and celebrations.
Employee of the Year - a chance to shine amongst your colleagues. Every year is the same, you (and your colleagues) pretend like it's no big deal and you're "not bothered this year", when in fact, in the lead up to voting day, you go home every night plotting how you can grab yourself some extra votes by squeezing in an extra tea round for your team or setting up 'you vote for me, I'll vote for you' false promises.
Topics: Insider
UK Parliament introduced the Modern Slavery Act in 2015 (MSA) with hopes of fighting crimes of corporate slavery and human trafficking in the UK.
Since its introduction, the number of prosecutions under the law has grown year on year (in 2017, 130 defendants were prosecuted, as opposed to 51 in 2016) but modern slavery is still prevalent in the UK, with most large companies not even aware that it exists in their supply chain.
Topics: Industry Legislation
On Friday, 26th October, Datum employees took to the (virtual) velodrome, raising just under £200 for the #PAP2020 charity support year through their hard-worked sweat & tears at the Datum RPO Head Office.
Topics: Insider
In essence, HMRC are planning to make changes to the UK tax rules in the private sector, specifically for off-payroll working (self-employed contractors), in the hope of minimising tax avoidance from ‘disguised employees’ working as independent contractors.
Currently, in the private sector, contractors determine their own IR35 status via their accountants or through independent worker status tests, however, the planned changes (which could be implemented as early as April 2019) will ultimately shift the liability to determine IR35 status from the contractors to the end user.
Topics: Industry Legislation
It's been 10 months since the birth of our #PAP2020 2018 charity support year, where Datum RPO and its sister company, Omega Resource Group, are raising £20,000 for 20 charities in celebration of our 20th Year Anniversary in business...
...and what an eventful 10 months it has been!
Topics: Insider
Staffline Group Plc, the AIM listed Nottinghamshire based recruiter, has this morning announced they have acquired Passionate About People Group (PAP) and its subsidiaries, Omega Resource Group and Datum RPO.
Staffline is the UK’s largest provider of blue-collar workers, finding work for up to 60,000 people every day at over 400 OnSite locations for the UK’s best-known brands.
Topics: Insider