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Companies with payroll disbursements in more than one country face many risks like salary payments being on time, secure and compliant. There is a solution – Payroll Treasury Services.   What is a payroll treasury service?   How www.dictionary.com describes...

With effect March 2019, the South African Government is planning to change the taxation laws for ‘tax residents’ living and earning outside of South Africa. For the past 16 years, South African law stated that if a ‘tax resident’ is working abroad for more than 183...

“When we sit with Payroll and HR Professionals, there are many situations that cause them incredible stress. Individuals and departments are overloaded, exhausted and motivation is low. They barely get through daily ‘admin loads’, which stops them focusing on...

Who are the Takers, Matchers, Self- Protective Givers, Selfless Givers in your organization? Harvard Business Review Professor Adam Grant and Reb Rebele from Wharton University of Pennsylvania “Although givers are the most valuable people in organizations, they’re...

  For many businesses, there are advantages to outsourcing their payroll, such as cost efficiencies, consistency, labour law compliance etc. OPS encourages you to dig deeper, and thoroughly analyse whether outsourcing your payroll would make sense for your...

One of our Payroll Specialists was recently asked to assist a company in navigating through a rather difficult separation process with an Employee. The Employee argued for his final settlement to be significantly more. He questioned the prorated work days calculation,...

Payroll is firmly centred around quality. The knock-on effect of compromised confidentiality, hidden errors, lack of local labour law knowledge, poor staff attendance, overpayments and debt recovery, as well as internal conflict of interest to adhere to payroll...

Article by Diana Geldenhuys | M.Com HR I Managing Director, Outsourced Payroll Solutions I love Surfski. The feeling of catching waves, and stretching your gaze to where sea and sky fuse into blue, is something that is hard to describe. Those early morning paddling...

We are aware that some of the GCC and surrounding countries have broken diplomatic ties with Qatar with immediate effect. These include Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Libya and the Maldives. While the economic and geopolitical impact of...

After attending the Ministry of Finance Workshop earlier this week I have concluded that not everything you read about VAT in the papers can be trusted.

Rebooting Saudi Arabia's economy by taking measures to wean it off oil, from raising taxes and reducing subsidies to slashing over-the-top perks for those on the government's payroll. He is also leading the charge for the world's largest IPO, the state-owned oil...

Outsourced Payroll Solutions (OPS), a UAE-based payroll provider, has appointed Frontierpay to assist with its daily operations by providing treasury and international payments services. OPS manages employee salaries and provides a cloud-based payroll platform for...

Companies have been warned they will no longer get away with failing to pay their employees on time. The message came from Maher Hamad Al Obed, Assistant Undersecretary of Inspection Affairs at the...

For Diana Geldenhuys entrepreneurship is a mindset, a way of thinking about life not only business. - Find out what she had to say about being an entrepreneurship in issue 9 of Expatlife.

What does the New UAE Student Labour Law mean for your Payroll? Employers in the UAE can now have students and young people working for short periods without sponsoring them. Article By Diana Geldenhuys | M.Com HR | Managing Director, Outsourced Payroll Solutions Saqr...