Paying staff for travelling time to customers or clients

Unbelievably there has been a recent case going through the Courts where an employer tried to maintain that they shouldn't be liable to pay their employee for the time it took them to move between clients during the working day. The employee was a care worker...

Betting on the Budget

Let's face it, most people (including some accountants!) find the Budget pretty boring but something they need to give some attention to in case it affects their business or personal financial situation. However, if you want to make the Chancellor's Budget...

Break some compromises

Historical precedents within a particular industry force customers to make compromises or concessions. Consider the following :- Why do most hotels prohibit you from checking in before 3pm? After all, hotel maids generally start work at 8am or 9am so some rooms are...

Small businesses can’t ignore these new pension rules

If you are an owner-manager of a small business then you probably find a discussion about your own pension arrangements a bit of a necessary evil that you need to look at every now and then. So considering the pension position of your employees is even more of a...

Mens and Womens brains are the same

Viewpoint client, Dr Gina Rippon has been widely quoted in the National Press and on BBC Radio this week. Dr Rippon is a director and shareholder of The Rippon Group, but she is better known as a renowned UK neuroscientist at Aston University Birmingham. Dr Rippon was...