Strategies for tackling rising employment costs post-Autumn Budget
What’s the event about?
Join Debra Lee, Jane Gilmore and Jack Darwin for an interactive session on understanding and forecasting the post-budget rising employment costs, and mitigating the impact on your profit and business into 2025. Gain valuable insights into how the Autumn Budget changes will affect your organisation and explore initiatives and strategies to help offset some of these increased costs.
Key Discussion Points:
- Highlighting the key changes to National Minimum Wage in 2025 and beyond
- Understanding how the increase in Employer NI will impact your business
- How the changes could impact your current operation, structure, P&L and overall business performance
- The benefits of reviewing your people and costs now to prepare for the changes
- Top Tips on how to best communicate and manage these changes through your Leadership team
Who is the event for?
The event is aimed at senior decision makers in SME businesses, and is ideal for CEOs, Managing Directors, and business leaders responsible for the P&L of small to mid-size businesses (£5m+).
Event timings
8:30 – 9:00: Arrival, coffee and networking
9:00 – 10:30: Speaker + Q&A
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee and networking
Speakers
Debra Lee
Regional Director | People Puzzles
Debra is a seasoned Regional Director with over 25 years of operational and HR experience in corporate retailing at Ikea, Marks & Spencer, and Asda, brings a dynamic and results- driven approach to her current role at People Puzzles. Since launching the northern region in 2015, Debra has grown a team of 16 People Directors, supporting hundreds of businesses with a current client roster of 40+ ambitious SMEs in the region. As part of People Puzzles’ network of 85+ People Directors across the UK, Debra is committed to helping SMEs achieve their growth goals through strategic HR solutions.
Jane Gilmour
Associate Director | Forvis Mazars
Jane is the national lead for National Minimum Wage (NMW) and supports employers with their NMW compliance strategies and wider reward offerings, including pension salary sacrifice implementation. Prior to joining Forvis Mazars in 2022, Jane spent over 25 years working across HMRC in personal tax, customs and NMW before and then spent four years with a big 4 advisor, specialising in NMW support and guidance, across a wide variety of FTSE100 and FTSE250 companies. Jane has extensive, specialist NMW knowledge to advise and support employers through the technical NMW regulations and legislation and help businesses with their NMW strategy to assure on-going compliance.
Jack Darwin
Assistant Manager | Forvis Mazars
Jack works in the employment taxes team and supports clients with cost reduction and compliance, benefits in kind reporting, and various other reward offerings. Jack joined Forvis Mazars as a school leaver 6 years ago, gaining experience in both personal tax and employment tax and has supported clients of various size, including SME and large and listed businesses. Jack is a fully qualified chartered tax advisor and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (“CIOT”), and Association of Taxation Technicians (“ATT”).
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