Transatlantic Employment Desk
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Start here: one employment plan for UK and US headquarters
A US finance lead hiring in Britain and a UK People lead hiring in the US face the same coordination problem: headquarters approves the role and funds it, while the employment arrangement must work where the person does. Start with the employee’s work location and the event in front of you. That giv
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The dangerous sentence in a transatlantic payroll week is “It was approved on Monday.” Approved by whom, and was there still time to fund it? In this fictional case, the US People lead approves UK payroll before the payroll cutoff. The UK employer still misses its separate funding deadline.
Read article ↗GUIDEUS salary language and UK offer language: reconcile the actual package
A US manager says “£80,000 salary plus a discretionary bonus.” The UK offer draft says £80,000 salary and nothing about a bonus. That omission does not settle the question. It leaves the candidate, the manager and the UK employer with three possible versions of the deal.
Read article ↗GUIDEThe first ninety days of a bidirectional employment relationship
Three completed payrolls can conceal a failed operating model. If headquarters still has to carry every employee question between the local employer and finance, the team bought payroll execution but kept the coordination job it meant to hand over.
Read article ↗GUIDEWhat changes when your second office becomes the decision centre?
The dangerous instruction is “London now approves everything.” It can mean three different things: London chooses what the business wants, the US parent releases the cash, and the UK employee’s employer agrees and implements any change to employment terms. A useful transition names each decision sep
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