Pay & benefits

Sheila Attwood discusses upcoming changes to apprenticeships and the implications on employers.

Barclays doubles its CEO’s pay to £10.5m as the bank's top performers share a bonus pot of £1.9bn.

Employee benefit providers Benefex and Benify have merged to become one business known as Benifex.
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More than a dozen MPs are calling on ministers to consider a four-day working week as part of the Employment Rights Bill.

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

Marks and Spencer boss Stuart Machin repeats call on government to phase in increase to employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs).

The KPMG/Recruitment and Employment Confederation report on Jobs survey for January 2025 showed that the fall in permanent hiring extended the current period of contraction to 28 months.

Accenture has axed its global diversity and inclusion goals after an evaluation of the changing US political landscape.

More than half (56%) of UK workers say they are now more likely to accept a job with an employer...

Crawley Town FC, according to the Guardian, asked kitman to work 100 hours a week for no extra pay.

From 6 April this year about 60,000 new parents will be able to benefit from a right to neonatal care leave.

BT is scrapping bonus scheme elements that include diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) measures for thousands of middle managers. 

January 2025's top 10 HR questions include FAQs ion TUPE, severe weather, notice periods, and alcohol or drug misuse

British employees are working 215.8 hours of overtime every year, with more than two in five (42%) doing so for free.

KPMG UK partners receive record pay averaging £816,000 following an 11% increase in pre-tax profits to £404 million.