The majority of employers would like to see tax breaks introduced in order to encourage firms to invest in private medical insurance, new research argues. More than 1,000 HR executives were polled by healthcare provider Simplyhealth and more than   More...
01 February 2012 09:00

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Stephen Hester may have bowed to public pressure and waived a £1 million bonus, but how much can executive pay really be reined in? Employment lawyer Emma Sanderson looks at Vince Cable's proposals to limit b  More...
30 January 2012 13:17

The Government today issued amendments to the timetable against which employers must enrol their staff in workplace pension schemes. The Government says that the amendments have been made in order to allow smaller businesses more time to prepare for  More...
25 January 2012 15:41

The Government's plans for an overhaul of the executive pay system have been announced. The proposals were first outlined in September 2011 by business secretary Vince Cable and more detail has been provided in a speech given to MPs. Speaking in   More...
24 January 2012 12:02

Private sector pay bargaining got off to a good start in January as pay rises hit their highest level in three years, despite remaining stagnant throughout much of 2011. This is according to XpertHR's latest pay trends report, which found that the m  More...
20 January 2012 00:01

Employers need to review staff communications about the economic pressures on pay in order to keep them motivated when awards are constrained, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has warned. The CIPD's Employee Atti  More...
04 January 2012 11:34

On 1 January 2012, new rules on the VAT treatment of certain benefits provided under salary-sacrifice schemes will come into force. The changes follow a ruling in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that, where an employer operates a salary-sacrific  More...
31 December 2011 13:50

Despite the pressure on budgets caused by the downturn, more than four employers out of five are continuing to protect staff with competitive health and benefits packages, latest research has suggested. The study, by insurer Unum and Personnel  More...
20 December 2011 10:30

Every year brings with it some important new employment legislation for the employer to negotiate. Whether related to unfair dismissal, pensions, employment tribunals or redundancy, 2012 presents new legislation relevant to all organisations, large or s  More...
20 December 2011 00:01

Pay awards are continuing to lag well below inflation, with just 2% of settlements keeping up with the retail prices index (RPI) in 2011, research has found. According to XpertHR's latest pay trends report , the median basic pay award rem  More...
16 December 2011 09:43

More than four-fifths (81%) of employers provide sick pay above the statutory entitlement, according to research published by Unum and Personnel Today. Further, two-thirds of organisations said that they continue to pay their employees for up to one   More...
06 December 2011 10:20

Barts & The London NHS Trust v Verma Facts This case deals with the issue of a pay-protection policy and how it should be applied. Dr Verma trained as a dentist in India and subsequently qualified as a doctor. She specialised in oral and maxi  More...
05 December 2011 10:10

Public sector unions have lost their High Court battle over alterations to how pensions are calculated. George Osborne announced in his emergency Budget in June 2010 that, with effect from April 2011, pensions would be uprated using the consume  More...
02 December 2011 16:21

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's autumn statement has delivered some bleak news for the public sector, with higher job losses than previously forecast and confirmation that pay awards in the sector will be restrained to an average of 1% for each of the  More...
29 November 2011 16:01

Businesses with fewer than 50 employees will not have to auto-enrol staff into pension schemes until 2015, the Government has confirmed. Minister for pensions Steve Webb confirmed in Parliament today that auto-enrolment for small businesses will be   More...
28 November 2011 16:43

The number of employers freezing pay has crept up in the three months to the end of October 2011, with almost three pay packets in 10 (28%) frozen, compared with 25% in the last rolling quarter. This is according to the latest pay analysis from  More...
18 November 2011 10:09

I've sacked a member of staff who was underperforming, with immediate effect. His contract has a clause providing an option for pay in lieu of notice. He has complained that this sum has been taxed unreasonably, claiming that the money was "compens  More...
17 November 2011 10:25

Social care staff at housing association Family Mosaic will be told to accept "massive" pay cuts or lose their jobs. This is according to public sector union Unison, which said that the London- and Essex-based housing association intends to dismiss   More...
15 November 2011 15:48

The Government has been accused of using misleading figures in an attempt to manipulate public opinion in the debate over public sector pensions . The accusation came from Britain's largest union, Unite, which said that Chief Secretary to the T  More...
08 November 2011 00:00

EXCLUSIVE  The Unison ballot, in which members voted yes to a strike over public sector pensions, could be "fatally flawed", meaning that employers could put a stop to the planned "day of action" on 30 November.   More...
03 November 2011 15:58