Pay & benefits

Mandatory disability workforce and pay gap reporting could have unintended consequences for disabled employees, according to research from the Business Disability Forum (BDF).

Cabinet Office instructs government departments to freeze almost all 20,000 credit cards as part of crackdown on wasteful spending.

Tesco has announced a pay rise for its store employees from 30 March, following negotiations with Usdaw trade union.

With mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting on the horizon for large employers, Kavitha Sivasubramaniam looks at the potential impact of its introduction and what it could mean for pay equity

National Pharmacy Association advises 6,000 member pharmacies to work to rule, if sufficient funding is not delivered by government.

Businesses should offset increased employment costs from April by encouraging staff to maximise their pension contributions, a financial services consultancy has advised.

There is a “significant” gap in perceptions and expectations around health and wellbeing benefits between employers and employees, a survey...

The retailer said it did not believe “it would be right” to pay a bonus this year as it continues to reinvest in the business.

Ministers 'fully accept principle of pregnancy loss bereavement leave' and take forward amendments to include miscarriage in workers' rights.

Despite financial pressure from national insurance and national living wage changes, the number of planned redundancies is falling.

Lloyds reduces diversity targets which impact annual bonus payments for senior staff and its wider employee base.

Recent actions by HMRC against fraudulent avoidance of tax payments demonstrate the importance of knowing what risks might lie in employers' wider supply chains.

A fifth of bereaved employees (21%) would have liked more time off to manage and work through their grief.

Pay rises in the private sector remained at 4% in the three months ending in January 2025, according to new figures.

The CIPD is urging the government to provide clarity for employers as new amendments to the Employment Rights Bill are unveiled.