Pay & benefits

Employers with a holiday year running from April to March are being warned that they could owe their employees an extra day’s leave.

Lloyds Banking Group, Housing 21, Next and PepsiCo are some of the employers to have made the Employee Benefits Awards 2025 shortlist.

Offering support for parents of babies requiring neonatal care, through the introduction of statutory neonatal care leave, is another major step forward for family rights – but present new challenges for businesses.

Although the Employment Rights Bill is still making its way through parliament, there are a number of obligations coming into force this April.

The economy could be boosted by more than 65 million working hours each year if employee assistance programmes (EAPs) were...

Sullivan Review shows how biological sex has been erased from official data and that the meaning of sex is ‘no longer stable’.

The UK is an international outlier when it comes to economic inactivity, a new government-commissioned report has found. 

Ahead of an interest rate decision today by the Bank of England, the figures show wage growth including bonuses at 5.8% – broadly unchanged in the three months to January.

UK and US slip down the league as Finnish workplaces make a major contribution to the country's success in the World Happiness Index.

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.