Pay & benefits

Facebook has announced that employees can now take up to 20 days of paid leave if an immediate family member...

The Government will fail to achieve its goal of eliminating the gender pay gap within a generation unless it tackles...

The Government has launched a consultation into the future viability of defined-benefit pension schemes.

Pensions resources
Consultation launched into corporate...

Recent research shows that the gender pay gap has significantly reduced for younger workers, but that the gap remains wide...

Firefighters have lost their claim that the introduction of the 2015 Firefighters’ Pension Scheme was discriminatory.
The first-instance decision was...

Department store Debenhams, sandwich chain Subway and clothing retailer Peacocks feature among 360 employers who have been named and shamed...

XpertHR is running a short benchmarking survey on the annual leave entitlements offered by UK employers.
Take part in the...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld a tribunal’s rejection of a claim that a Roman Catholic was not discriminated against...

Matthew Taylor, the head of Theresa May’s independent review of modern employment practices, has said that businesses are using self-employment...

Reports have suggested that RBS, majority-owned by the taxpayer, will shell out some £340 million in staff bonuses this year,...

New rules on gender pay gap reporting simply compel employers to publish details of their pay gap on an annual...

Pensioners’ incomes are now higher than those of working age, according to a report from the Resolution Foundation.
Its As...

Large private businesses, including the likes of John Lewis, Arcadia and Virgin Atlantic, should have to follow the same corporate...

Unmarried partners of occupational pension scheme members should be eligible for survivor pension benefits, regardless of whether or not they...

From April 2017, employers with a paybill of more than £3 million will be required to pay the apprenticeship levy....