Nearly 50,000 businesses were in critical financial distress in the spring, an increase of 21.4% compared with the previous year.
Pay & benefits
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Aldi has announced that it will increase pay for its store assistants to at least £13 an hour from September 2025.
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UK vacancies rose to 875,546 in June – the strongest annual growth since July 2022.
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A four-day working week - with no reduction in pay - can have a positive impact on workers’ mental and physical health.
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Four in five employees received a smaller pay award in 2025 than in the previous year, as employers increasingly show restraint.
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HM Revenue & Customs has announced a new online Pay As You Earn (PAYE) service for UK employees.
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Government launches new Pensions Commission to examine why tomorrow’s pensioners are expected to be poorer than today’s.
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Bryn Howells, who juggled four jobs at councils in west of England, has been found guilty of fraud at Gloucester Crown Court.
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Government launches call for evidence on unpaid and underpaid internships and work trials as it seeks to tighten rules.
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BMA says there is a small ‘window of opportunity’ to avert strikes by resident doctors after ‘productive’ talks with health secretary.
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The average UK gender pay gap has seen the second largest decrease since the introduction of pay gap reporting in 2017.
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ON-DEMAND | Watch our webinar on the reporting requirements in the pipeline for ethnicity and disability pay gaps.
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Excluding the volatile period caused by the pandemic, UK job vacancies have fallen to their lowest level in a decade, according to ONS.
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Reforms to sick pay being introduced by the Employment Rights Bill could deliver benefits of more than £2bn to the UK economy, analysis from the TUC suggests.
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Hugh’s Law calls for paid leave for parents with critically ill children
by Jo Faragherby Jo FaragherA bereaved family is campaigning for the government to introduce legislation that gives parents statutory rights if their child is critically ill.