Having a diverse and inclusive workplace is important not only ethically but also for improving employee morale, boosting innovation and...
Sheila Attwood
Sheila Attwood
Sheila Attwood is Senior Content Manager, Data and HR Insights at Brightmine. She has more than 20 years' experience of working in a research and editorial capacity in a publishing environment, with a focus on the labour market, reward, industrial relations and HR practice. Sheila leads the team that is responsible for the HR and reward content on Brightmine, with a key responsibility for the pay settlement tracking service. She is an expert on company pay awards and is regularly called upon to appear in the broadcast and print media to comment on the level of increase in pay rates.
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Almost a quarter of pay awards each year are based on a measure of employee performance. Sheila Attwood looks at...
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A new XpertHRÂ guide to employee recognition looks at the importance of praising people for what they’ve achieved. Sheila Attwood...
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Charities will have to spend more than £3 million bringing their staff up to the new national living wage rate...
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Private-sector employers are expecting to increase employees’ pay by just 2% during the next year, the same rate of increase...
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Pay award levels recorded by XpertHR have been low for the best part of seven years now, but is this...
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The median pay rise for health and safety professionals in 2014 was just 1%, according to a survey from Health...
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Any negotiation with a trade union should aim to achieve a mutually acceptable outcome. But when making changes to employees’...
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Four out of 10 employees (37.8%) were paid a bonus in 2014. The value of bonuses paid, both in monetary...
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The gender pay gap is closing, but earnings growth has yet to catch up with inflation, the latest wage data...
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The level of pay rises across the economy has been low for some time. The latest figures from pay analysts...
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Research by XpertHR found that the most popular way of flexing the benefits package is to offer benefits on a salary-sacrifice basis.
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The latest figures show that employers are facing dilemmas over pay, as wage rises fail to keep track with economic...
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Health-related benefits feature heavily in the most common benefits provided by employers, a survey of 327 organisations' benefits packages conducted by XpertHR has found.
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The Queen’s Speech at the state opening of Parliament has set out “pension reforms that will allow for innovation in...