Pay settlements

Technology retailer Currys has announced a 5.2% base pay increase for hourly paid staff, in response to rising living costs.

Total Jobs has found that essential workers are twice as likely as other employees to have handed in their notice in recent months.

John Lewis Partnership has reinstated its staff bonus as its losses narrowed and its department store chain achieved the highest sales in its history.

Four-fifths of jobseekers are less likely to apply for a job if they can’t see a salary, research found.

With UK workers facing a cost of living crisis, and employers able to only offer so much in the way of pay increases, how might organisations help wages go further?

A poll by recruiter Randstad UK suggested that more people than expected would accept exercising more restraint when it came to wages.

Staff at the Financial Conduct Authority are set to see their base pay increase by an average of more than 12% over the next two years.

The Home Office's recommendation for 2022-23 is a rise of a minimum of 2% – a figure the PFEW says is unacceptable.

Asda bosses have been strongly criticised for ‘forcing a real terms pay cut’ on its near 150,000 retail workers.

The governor of the Bank of England has appeared to backtrack on his comments that employees should not ask for pay rises in order to curb inflation.

Around 6,000 warehouse staff, clerical workers and HGV drivers based at Asda distribution centres have voted to take industrial action over pay.

Thousands of Marks & Spencer shop floor staff will see their base pay increase to at least £10 an hour in April

Pay awards have seen their biggest increase in more than a decade, according to the latest analysis.

Thousands of Airbus workers at its factories in North Wales and Gloucestershire have voted to strike in a dispute over pay.

Official statistics show that average pay continued to creep up in December, as employers fought for talent amid yet another record number of vacancies.