NPW26 sponsored webinar - IRIS
The Strategic Payroll Function: Turning Data and Change Into Boardroom Influence
Date and time: Thursday 10 September 2026, 14:00 – 14:45 GMT
Webinar details: Payroll has long been seen as a back-office function, accurate, essentiial, but operational. That perception is about to be tested.
The legislative landscape facing payroll teams has never moved faster. The Employment Rights Act is reshaping sick pay, leave and zero-hours rules; the new Fair Work Agency has brought employment-rights enforcement under one roof; and from April 2027 mandatory payrolling of benefits in kind begins to phase in, with Class 1A moving into real time. For many teams, the instinct is to brace for more work. But there’s a bigger story here.
Each of these changes does more than add complexity: it puts richer, real-time data into payroll’s hands, live visibility of the true cost of employment, total reward, and workforce cost that the business has nowhere else. As automation absorbs the processing, that data is the difference between reporting what happened and advising on what to do next.
Join the CIPP and IRIS Software Group during National Payroll Week 2026 as we explore how the changes coming down the track can be the catalyst for payroll’s move from compliance to counsel, and what payroll professionals can do now to claim a more strategic, consultative seat at the table.
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