Global Employment Solutions, EOR, & PEO in United Kingdom

Omnipresent, acting as your (UK) United Kingdom PEO and EOR employer partner, facilitates the hiring of workers in the UK for your business based outside the region. We ensure that each employee is provided with HR services, benefits, and paid leave, aligning with local UK standards. Specializing in payroll processing and human resource services, we offer a robust compliance framework, effectively becoming your company's operational arm in the UK. Explore how an employer of record in the UK can improve your business’s logistics with HR outsourcing. Explore how an employer of record in the UK can improve your business’s logistics.

Omnipresent provides global employment solutions and professional employment organisation (PEO) services for companies looking at global expansion in United Kingdom. Traditional methods of establishing global employment and subsidiaries in United Kingdom typically take months and can incur heavy costs navigating each work visa and local laws. Omnipresent’s UK PEO solutions and global employment services solutions are helping hundreds of organisations onboard global talent in United Kingdom in a matter of days with full compliance with local labour laws. We use a tech-forward approach to streamline the process.

• Your company conducts the hiring and candidate selection process in United Kingdom.
• Omnipresent hires the selected candidate through our local professional employment organisation in United Kingdom.
• We take care of ensuring your new UK employee is hired in compliance with local employment law, payroll regulations, employee benefits and more -- all without needing to set up a UK subsidiary.
• The individual is legally contracted by Omnipresent but assigned to work for your company and reports to a manager or team in your organisation as your full-time employee.

Employer costs include Workplace Pension and National Insurance. Use the OmniCalculator to estimate costs, or contact us for further information.

Income taxes

20% - 45%

Employee Contributions

The NI contributions payable by an employee on weekly earnings for tax year 2024–25 are as follows:

• 0 pounds to 123 pounds — exempt;

• 123.01 pounds to 242 pounds — 0 percent;

• 242.01 pounds to 967 pounds — 8 percent; and

• over 967 pounds — 2 percent.

Employees over the state pension age do not pay NI contributions.

The UK adopted the EU Working Hours Directive into its laws. However, in the UK you have the ability to opt out of the 48 hours per week maximum in the employment contract, as long as the employee consents. This is market practice in virtually all office jobs.

Employers do not have to pay overtime unless it is outlined in the contract.

The UK offers 28 weeks of protected and paid sick leave.

Minimum sick pay very low - only £96.35 per week (as at 1 April 2021) and must be paid by the employer, not the government. Most employers will offer sick leave at full pay for a period of time, 4 - 12 weeks would be usual.

Maternity is up to 52 weeks (i.e. 1 year), the first 39 weeks of which are paid.

Paternity is 2 weeks paid, but parents can choose to share the Maternity Leave if they wish.

The UK offers a minimum of 28 working days paid annual leave, inclusive of public holidays. The UK currently has 8 regular public holidays.

However, it is common for employers to give more than this. Market standard would be 25-28 days excluding public holidays.

There is no mandatory severance pay when employees resign or are terminated, unless it is a formal redundancy.

In the first 2 years of service, employers can terminate without cause.

For employees with more than 2 years of service, employers can only terminate if they have a valid reason, which can be due to the employee's behaviour or performance, but must follow a ‘fair and reasonable process’.

Employers must be given notice in all cases, except gross misconduct.