Around 500 Scottish Water workers have begun strike action today (22 April) in a dispute over pay.
The workers, who...
Zoe Wickens

Zoe Wickens
Zoe Wickens is a journalist with five years of experience writing for trade and business to business publications. She joined Employee Benefits as a reporter in May 2021 and writes news and features content for the website. She won the Willis Towers Watson pay, reward and employee benefits journalist of the year award in 2023. Before writing about the HR, reward and benefit industry she worked as a reporter for publications about the optical and eyewear market and the UK stock market.
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Employment tribunal finds part-time lecturer at London-based Capital City College (CCC) faced less favourable treatment.
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The Employee Benefits Awards on 27 June 2025 will be hosted by comedian Maisie Adam.
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Supermarket Asda is to increase hourly pay rates for its store-based employees in three phases as part of an £80 million investment.
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Lloyds Banking Group, Housing 21, Next and PepsiCo are some of the employers to have made the Employee Benefits Awards 2025 shortlist.
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Tesco has announced a pay rise for its store employees from 30 March, following negotiations with Usdaw trade union.
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Technology retailer Currys has increased pay for its workforce through an £8 million investment, with a 6% increase in hourly-paid wages.
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Employee benefit providers Benefex and Benify have merged to become one business known as Benifex.
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Lidl is giving its 28,000 hourly-paid employees a pay rise from March 2025, ahead of the increase in the national living wage.
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Half of employees admit they regularly experience anxiety at work due to workloads, time pressures, and balancing professional and personal lives.
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More than 350 bin workers based in the city of Birmingham have begun strike action over a pay dispute.
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Supermarket chain Aldi increases pay for store assistants to at least £12.71 per hour nationally, from March 2025.
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Senior doctors and consultants across Scotland accept 10.5% basic pay increase backdated to 1 April following negotiations.
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Thousands of NHS staff in Scotland have voted to accept the Scottish government’s pay offer, ending a consultation process.
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Merlin Entertainments' Janet McKenzie will present the closing keynote on the first day of Employee Benefits Live 2024.