Pay & benefits

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

An average worker in Burnley will earn in a full year what a worker in London will be paid by August, according to Centre for Cities.

MPs will table amendment for Employment Rights Bill to include statutory bereavement leave for workers who suffer a miscarriage.

Working parents increasingly stressed as number of employees who say employer is highly supportive of family life falls by nearly a third.

The rise in employers’ national insurance contributions from this April is likely to cause an overall slowing of long-term wage growth.

Sainsbury’s has announced it will increase wages by 5% from £12 an hour to £12.60 by August.

The case brings into sharp focus the complexity of employment status – something that the Labour government has promised to simplify.

The situation at South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) is described as “nuttier than a squirrel’s brunch”

Ethnic minority workers are almost twice as likely to be denied a pay rise or promotion, according to research from...

Workplaces are being urged to revisit and refresh their first aid practices and approaches as UK plc reopens for business...

More than half of private sector employers plan to raise prices to help offset tax increases, according to the British Chambers of Commerce.

High Pay Centre analysis shows CEO pay in FTSE 100 will surpass the median worker's 2025 salary at around 11:30 this morning.

An MP plans to introduce a 'safe leave' Bill this week that would give victims of domestic abuse access to paid time off work.

The cost of employing low-wage workers will hit a record high in 2025, according to analysis by the Centre for Policy Studies.

People up and down the country are being left unable to access dentistry because of ‘eye-watering’ increases in private fees,...