Pay & benefits

John Lewis Partnership and the Co-op have become the latest major retailers to announce 2024 pay rises for frontline staff.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirmed the Treasury will cut the main rate of National Insurance by a further 2 percentage points to 8%.

Tesco pay rises by 9.1% as it reaches agreement with the Usdaw union to take the supermarket's hourly pay above the 2024 ‘real’ Living Wage. 

Doctors' unions and government agree on improved pay offer for consultants in England after the previous proposal was narrowly rejected

Amazon could be forced to recognise trade union for first time in UK, after the GMB submitted a second formal bid to the Central Arbitration Committee.

Asda has announced that its hourly-paid store employees will see an 8.4% increase in their pay effective 1 July.

Surrey County Council has apologised to employees after an error with its £30m payroll system saw staff paid the wrong wages.

Currys has implemented a 9.5% increase in base pay for all of its hourly-paid store colleagues, to £11.50, for 2024.

Women now hold 42% of board roles across the FTSE 100, the study found, a small increase on the figure in 2022, 40% and 2021, when it was 39%.

Busy Bees Nurseries group people director Charlotte Hutchings discusses how the company will recruit more childcare workers and the power of apprenticeships.

Last month's FAQs focus on upcoming law changes in April including carer's leave, irregular hours holiday pay, and flexible working.

HR managers and directors based in the southern part of eastern England are among the highest earners in their profession based on median earnings.

The UK’s high gender pay gap has seen it fall four places on a key index that gauges equality in earnings at work.

How should employers prepare for the new right to unpaid carer's leave, which comes into force in April 2024?

One in five large employers has not conducted gender pay gap analysis in the past year, despite being legally required to.