The document summarizes a panel discussion on payroll ethics held by NAIP on February 2nd, 2013 at the Holiday Inn. The panel was moderated by Mr. Ashish Gakrey and included panelists from Accenture, Total Resources, Remunance Progress Partners, and Makemysalary.com. They discussed the importance of ethics, confidentiality, integrity, compliance, security, and legality as they relate to payroll. Maintaining ethics requires keeping all payroll data confidential. Compliance with laws and regulations is also crucial for payroll professionals.

1. Opportune were sponsor partner at NAIP on 2 nd Feb 2013 Holiday-Inn

2. Panel discussion on Payroll Ethics:
Moderator:
Mr. Ashish Gakrey-Sr manager HR, Capgemini India
Panelist:
Mr. Mahesh Parmar, APAC Head-HR Operation, Total resources, HRIS & Special Projects-
Accenture.
Mr. Rajendra Vaidya, CEO, Remunance Progress Partners
Mr. Pratik Vaidya –Director of Karma Consultancy & chairman of NAIP,
Mr Dilip Thakkar – Makemysalary.com
 Discussion started with 5 data sources
1. Recruitment
2. Employee onboard
3. Payroll
4. Exit Team
5. Finance team.

3.  According to Mr. Mahesh, “Ethics is something within an individual. It
cannot be taught. An individual should understand the importance of any
data & should keep it confidential.”
 Mr. Rajendra said that ethics is doing thing right or wrong. Any organization should
follow minimum wages act. As a payroll processor, one needs to be very ethical.
 Mr Dilip said “For payroll to survive confidentiality is a must”. Ethics is like
DNA.
Q. Mr Ashish asked panel - How compliance related to payroll Ethics is
important?
 Mr Pratik answered that “compliance is adherence to procedure led down to run the
organization”
 One must be aware of local rules & regulation said by Rajendra
This Panel discussion touched the following points related to payroll ethics:
 Confidentiality: Everything related to payroll must be confidential
 Integrity & Trust: Willingness to do the job right & with pride
 Compliance: Make sure that we are in compliance with federal, state & local
guidelines
 Security : Payroll data are recorded properly & make sure that the data is secure
 Legality: Follow all the rules /laws set forth by the govt. or agencies