Pay & benefits

Access to flexible working, paid ‘wellness days’, and health insurance or physical wellness programmes are employees' top priorities.

Day-one unfair dismissal and sick pay rights among small firms' greatest concerns about Employment Rights Bill, FSB survey shows.

Pay awards remained at lowest level for four years as inflation levels increased by more than expected in January 2025.

UK wages are growing while job vacancies continue to fall, according to the latest official figures.

Barclays and NatWest are among the latest businesses to drop climate goals from their bonus schemes for senior executives.

Employees are set to be able to get access to weight loss jabs through their workplace health, under a plan...

Sheila Attwood discusses upcoming changes to apprenticeships and the implications on employers.

Barclays doubles its CEO’s pay to £10.5m as the bank's top performers share a bonus pot of £1.9bn.

Employee benefit providers Benefex and Benify have merged to become one business known as Benifex.
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More than a dozen MPs are calling on ministers to consider a four-day working week as part of the Employment Rights Bill.

Lidl is giving its 28,000 hourly-paid employees a pay rise from March 2025, ahead of the increase in the national living wage.

Marks and Spencer boss Stuart Machin repeats call on government to phase in increase to employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs).

The KPMG/Recruitment and Employment Confederation report on Jobs survey for January 2025 showed that the fall in permanent hiring extended the current period of contraction to 28 months.

Accenture has axed its global diversity and inclusion goals after an evaluation of the changing US political landscape.

More than half (56%) of UK workers say they are now more likely to accept a job with an employer...