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HR & payroll, done properly

Practical, country-by-country guides on payroll, compliance and leave — and how to treat your people as capital to invest in, not headcount to manage. Written for HR leaders at growing companies across the UK, Ireland, USA, UAE, India and Australia.

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ERA 2025 Global

ERA 2025: The End of Fire and Rehire

ERA 2025 makes fire and rehire automatically unfair dismissal except in exceptional circumstances. What this means for changing employment terms.

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Use Cases Global

HR Software for Care Homes and Social Care

Care home and social care HR: DBS check tracking, SSP management for high-absence workforces, shift pattern compliance, and CQC documentation requirements.

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Global Payroll India

Adding starters to payroll in India

When a new employee joins your organisation in India, you must complete a specific sequence of registrations, deductions and filings before their first salary is paid. Miss any step and you risk compl

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Global Payroll UK

Adding starters to payroll in the United Kingdom

When a new employee joins your business in the UK, you must collect specific information from them, register them with HMRC through your payroll software, and make the correct deductions from their fi

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Global Payroll USA

Adding starters to payroll in the United States

When you hire someone new in the United States, you need to collect specific documents, register information with government agencies, and set up withholding correctly before you run their first paych

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Global Payroll Australia

Adding starters to payroll in Australia

When you hire someone in Australia, you need to complete a specific set of payroll setup steps before their first pay run — including collecting a Tax File Number declaration, confirming superannuatio

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Global Payroll UAE

Adding starters to payroll in the United Arab Emirates

When a new employee joins your business in the UAE, you need to complete several interdependent steps — visa sponsorship, labour registration, WPS enrolment and pension registration — before their fi

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Global Payroll Ireland

Adding starters to payroll in Ireland

Adding a new employee to payroll in Ireland requires you to register them with Revenue before their first payday, set up their tax deduction details correctly, and make real-time submissions on or bef

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Global Payroll India

Attachment of earnings and court orders in India

Employers receiving a court attachment order must deduct a specified sum from an employee's wages and remit it directly to the court or designated authority. The process is governed by the Code of Civ

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Global Payroll UK

Attachment of earnings and court orders in the United Kingdom

An attachment of earnings order is a court instruction that requires an employer to deduct money from an employee's wages and pay it directly to a court or creditor. Compliance is not optional — igno

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Global Payroll USA

Attachment of earnings and court orders in the United States

Wage garnishment in the United States is a legal process that requires an employer to withhold a portion of an employee's earnings and send those funds directly to a creditor or government agency. Onc

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Global Payroll Australia

Attachment of earnings and court orders in Australia

Attachment of earnings orders are not a standard federal mechanism in Australia — instead, wage garnishment for debts operates through a patchwork of state, territory and federal court processes that

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