Trefnus Editorial Team

Published: 28 August 2026 | Last reviewed: 28 August 2026 Very few projects finish exactly as they were planned. Requirements shift, suppliers miss dates, budgets tighten and stakeholders think of something they forgot to mention at the start. None of that is a failure. The failure is when those changes slip into the project quietly, one small favour at a time, until nobody can say what the project is meant to deliver or when it will be finished. Project change control is the discipline...

Published: 21 August 2026 | Last reviewed: 21 August 2026 Final pay when leaving a job is one of the most common flashpoints between UK employers and departing staff. The last payslip rarely looks like the previous eleven. It may cover a part month, a run of untaken holiday, a notice payment, a redundancy sum, and possibly a deduction or two, with different tax and payroll treatment depending on what each payment represents. Get it right and someone leaves on good terms. Get it wrong and...

Published: 15 August 2026 | Last reviewed: 15 August 2026 Working out holiday entitlement for part-time employees is one of the most common sources of payroll error in UK small businesses. The principle sounds simple enough. Part-time staff are entitled to the same statutory 5.6 weeks of holiday as full-time staff, with that entitlement expressed in proportion to their working pattern. In practice, the arithmetic trips people up, particularly when bank holidays, shift patterns or mid-year...