Mark Crail
About Mark Crail
Mark Crail is content director of XpertHR. He leads the salary survey and HR data benchmarking services, overseeing the collection and publication of pay data through the Job Pricing tool and our wider HR research programme which forms the core of XpertHR Benchmarking.
Gender pay gap reporting: five things you need to know
A new duty requiring big employers to publish data on their gender pay gaps now looks set to come into...
Predictive HR analytics raise “Big Brother” ethical and legal fears
As employers become more sophisticated in their use of HR metrics, they need to ensure they are aware of the...
The rise of CPI: HR hedges its bets over inflation
Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), fell to its lowest ever level in January 2015, hitting just...
Bonuses for 60% of white-collar workers last year
Six in 10 white-collar workers took home a cash bonus last year, worth on average 13.8% on top of basic...
Staff with a grievance get paid off with compromise agreement by employer
Nearly eight out of 10 employers would rather pay off a former employee with a grievance if the cost of...
Employers make liberal use of working time regulations opt-out
Many organisations routinely ask key employees to opt out of working time limits even though there is little prospect that...
Online recruitment delivers more applicants and wins vote of most employers
Online recruitment may not produce better quality candidates, but it does deliver more of them and that makes it easier...
Graduate starting salaries fall behind inflation as good graduates are hard to find
Starting salaries for new graduates have seen only modest increases over the past year, according to a survey by Personnel...
Private sector pay awards to stay high in 2008
One in three private sector employers expects to come out of the 2008 wage round with a settlement of 4%...
Return-to-work interviews do cut sickness absence rates
Two out of three employers believe that return-to-work interviews have cut employee absence rates, according to a study by Personnel...
Human resource practitioners believe maternity pay is too low
Most humna resources (HR) practitioners believe that statutory maternity pay (SMP) is set at too low a level, according to...
Employers confident over recruitment prospects
by Mark Crail Nearly one in five employers expects to recruit more employees by the end of the year, according to figures compiled for the Manpower...
Equal pay claims push tribunal cases to new high…
The number of cases brought to employment tribunals rose sharply last year, according to figures published by the Tribunals Service.More...
Employers find online timewasting more of a problem than employees accessing porn websites
Three out of four employers have had to deal with employees who waste time online rather than doing the job...
Research update – Senior managers are getting harder to find
It takes an average of 12 weeks and costs £11,000 to fill a senior management vacancy, according to a study...
