Pay transparency and your company: How to comply with the UK’s new payslip legislation
Posted by: ADP on 23 April 2019 in Compliance, Payroll
New legislation around itemised payslips recently came into force on 6th April 2019, giving contractors, freelancers, and zero-hour workers the right to receive a detailed payslip from their employer regardless of their employment status. Previously legislation did not require payslips to be issued to those classified as ‘non-employee’ workers but now employers must provide payslips to all workers and display hours where pay varies by the amount of time worked. This legislation aims to increase transparency in the workplace and ensure workers are paid fairly and accurately in all industries across the UK, thus representing an important step forward. Covering pay periods which began on or after 6th April 2019, the adjustment to current pay was motivated by a drive to increase transparency in the employer-employee relationship as a result of the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, which called for greater...