Pay & benefits

Workplace health benefits prevented 14 million sick days in 2021 and helped 12,500 full-time workers to stay in employment.

An employment lawyer says new holiday pay regulations that were hoped to simplify calculations for irregular hours workers are problematic.

Members of the RMT vote overwhelmingly in favour of a new pay offer for 2022-23, but strikes by Aslef train drivers are going ahead.

Irregular hours workers’ holiday pay entitlement is calculated at 12.07% of the hours worked, up to a maximum of 28 days.

Some ethnic groups are still earning up to 18.5% less per hour than white employees, ethnicity pay gap figures for 2022 have revealed. 

Does the four-day week grant employees the flexibility and skills development opportunities they desire? Or is it too rigid?

Consultants pay offer could end strikes if union members vote for changes to pay structure for senior doctors in England.

People who are financially comfortable are much more likely to be able to access employer-funded healthcare than those who are less well off.

Cruise ship company Carnival UK, owner of P&O Cruises and Cunard, is alleged to be planning to fire more than 900 UK staff if they do not accept new terms and conditions for their jobs.

Ministers have claimed that changes announced in the Autumn Statement will ‘tear down barriers’ to work for more than 2.4...

Jeremy Hunt announced a two percentage point drop in national insurance in the government's Autumn Statement.

Women in the UK will not see the gender pay gap closed before they reach state pension age, according to research from the Fawcett Society.

The Treasury has announced a 9.8% increase to the national living wage from April 2024.

MTR Elizabeth line sped off with the 2023 Health and Wellbeing Award - Smaller Employers at the Personnel Today ceremony and party at Grosvenor House Hotel on 21 November

More than half of the UK workforce (51%) now want access to private healthcare via their workplace, as concerns intensify...