How does working with an Umbrella Company benefit you as a business?

With Umbrella companies being placed further under the microscope (a good thing - the compliant ones have nothing to hide!) we thought it was time to revisit the value add and benefits that working with a reputable Umbrella brings to your business.

Reduced Administration

Managing your own PAYE candidates requires;

• Time spent dealing with pay queries - you are responsible for them.

• Responsibility of providing documentation such as P60's, P45's, amongst others.

• Risk associated with Right To Work and adherence to National Minimum Wage.

• Frequent training on evolving tax and compliance regulations.

  
  

👉 Clipper handles all this— we will be on hand to assist with pay queries, after-caring workers to ensure that they are satisfied with their payments and taking on employment responsibilities.

For CIS agencies, we take on the specialist burden of carrying out the compliance around self-employment. Using our expertise, our specifically trained staff will carry out said compliance in the form of SDC (Supervision, Direction and Control) assessments directly with the workers in question, in addition to a SEA (Self Employed Assessment). This saves the agency the burden of having to complete them themselves.

We free up your time so that you can continue recruiting.

Provide Advice and Guidance

We are your payroll partners - lean on us for any advice and guidance such as;

• Ever-changing legislation such as minimum wage, tax liabilities and the impact on our shared industry.

• Supervision, Direction and Control, plus IR35 compliance.

• Contractor insurances and how these work.

• Any client audits/requests for information.

  
  

👉 The recruitment and payroll world at times can be difficult to navigate - we are here to advise and guide you - lowering your agency’s legal and financial exposure.

Scalable Without Overheads

Recruitment agencies often experience rapid growth or project-based spikes in contractor numbers.

👉 Working with Clipper means that we can easily support you as headcount grows - we’ve got all the staff and systems already in place to support your workers. Our auto-updates and digital systems allow management of large numbers of registrations and we can keep up with demand.

We provide same-day onboarding and payment cycles, speeding up your contractor placement and billings.

A summary reminder of Clipper’s benefits to agencies

• Assigned account manager available directly on mobile.

• Bespoke agency training packages available, on any topics necessary.

• Automated updates for candidate registrations.

• We’re Employee Owned – we have a vested interest in your success!

• FCSA & Saferec accredited

• Fiscally strong business that can handle economic pressures

• Proven track record of over 16 years, offering security and longevity.

• Robust disaster recovery systems - whatever the disaster, we’ll still be able to pay.

• Same day payments available every day.

• Friday 4.30 pm deadline for payments before the weekend.

Benefits to workers

• Personal accident insurance as standard, not as extra.

• Legal, tax and counselling helpline available to all.

• Translation support in 45+ languages, and a one-click registration process.

• We’re Employee Owned – if you are an employee with us, that means you too are a beneficiary! (please ask us for further details).

• Speak to real people, with an average call waiting time to our team of 12 seconds.

• Access to shopping discounts and wellbeing perks through Clipper Plus

• Specialist contractor mortgage and income protection advice from our trusted partner Cleerly.

• 10% discount on tax returns and gym memberships via our partners Gorilla Accounting and The Gym Group.

• For construction workers, a bespoke product that provides £2.5k of cover for tools via our partner Kingsbridge.

There are plenty of benefits to be had in working with us – ask for more details!