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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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    • Retail
    • Pay settlements

    Asda increases hourly pay and enhances family-friendly policies

    by Zoe Wickens 28 Mar 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 28 Mar 2025

    Supermarket Asda is to increase hourly pay rates for its store-based employees in three phases as part of an £80 million investment.

    • Benefits
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Employee Benefits Awards 2025 shortlist revealed

    by Zoe Wickens 24 Mar 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 24 Mar 2025

    Lloyds Banking Group, Housing 21, Next and PepsiCo are some of the employers to have made the Employee Benefits Awards 2025 shortlist.

    • Collective bargaining
    • Latest News
    • Retail

    Tesco announces pay rise for store employees

    by Zoe Wickens 18 Mar 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 18 Mar 2025

    Tesco has announced a pay rise for its store employees from 30 March, following negotiations with Usdaw trade union.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Pay settlements

    Currys increases hourly pay by 6%

    by Zoe Wickens 6 Mar 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 6 Mar 2025

    Technology retailer Currys has increased pay for its workforce through an £8 million investment, with a 6% increase in hourly-paid wages.

    • Benefits
    • Mergers and acquisitions
    • HR Technology

    Benify and Benefex merge to become Benifex

    by Zoe Wickens 12 Feb 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 12 Feb 2025

    Employee benefit providers Benefex and Benify have merged to become one business known as Benifex.
    The global reward and benefits...

    • National living wage
    • Latest News
    • Retail

    Lidl announces pay rise from March 2025

    by Zoe Wickens 11 Feb 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 11 Feb 2025

    Lidl is giving its 28,000 hourly-paid employees a pay rise from March 2025, ahead of the increase in the national living wage.

    • Anxiety
    • Mental health
    • Latest News

    Half of UK employees suffer anxiety at work

    by Zoe Wickens 11 Feb 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 11 Feb 2025

    Half of employees admit they regularly experience anxiety at work due to workloads, time pressures, and balancing professional and personal lives.

    • Local authorities
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    • Industrial action / strikes

    Bin workers strike over pay in Birmingham

    by Zoe Wickens 4 Feb 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 4 Feb 2025

    More than 350 bin workers based in the city of Birmingham have begun strike action over a pay dispute.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Pay settlements

    Aldi store assistants to receive March pay rise

    by Zoe Wickens 21 Jan 2025
    by Zoe Wickens 21 Jan 2025

    Supermarket chain Aldi increases pay for store assistants to at least £12.71 per hour nationally, from March 2025.

    • NHS
    • Scotland
    • Latest News

    Consultants in Scotland accept 10.5% pay rise

    by Zoe Wickens 7 Nov 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 7 Nov 2024

    Senior doctors and consultants across Scotland accept 10.5% basic pay increase backdated to 1 April following negotiations.

    • NHS
    • Scotland
    • Latest News

    Thousands of NHS staff in Scotland accept pay offer

    by Zoe Wickens 23 Sep 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 23 Sep 2024

    Thousands of NHS staff in Scotland have voted to accept the Scottish government’s pay offer, ending a consultation process.

    • Benefits
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Employee Benefits Live 2024: Unknotting your global benefits tangle

    by Zoe Wickens 5 Sep 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 5 Sep 2024

    Merlin Entertainments' Janet McKenzie will present the closing keynote on the first day of Employee Benefits Live 2024.

    • Carers
    • Latest News

    Eight in 10 carers would support paid leave right

    by Zoe Wickens 27 Aug 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 27 Aug 2024

    Four in five (80%) of carer employees said that additional paid carer’s leave would help them to balance work and caring responsibilities, according to new research.

    • Latest News
    • Gender pay gap

    EHRC names employers failing to report gender pay gap data

    by Zoe Wickens 1 Aug 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 1 Aug 2024

    Equality watchdog names six organisation that have failed to report their gender pay gap data to the government.

    • Case law
    • Latest News
    • Pensions

    Court of Appeal upholds Virgin Media pension ruling

    by Zoe Wickens 29 Jul 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 29 Jul 2024

    Court of Appeal upholds ruling that a written actuarial confirmation was needed for changes to Virgin Media pension scheme’s rules.

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