Mayors launch campaign for self-isolation ‘wages’
Time Out to Help Out campaign aimed at ensuring employees are paid their full normal wage if they are requested to self-isolate and are unable to work from home.
Top 10 HR Questions July 2020: Redundancy and furlough
Coronavirus has had a huge impact on the economy and as funding through the furlough scheme is gradually withdrawn, many...
Hiring continues to fall but pace slows
The rate of decline in recruitment activity is slowing, starting salaries are falling and worker availability is on the up as the Bank of England cuts the severity of its forecasts for the UK economy.
Short-term executive pay cuts won’t solve high pay culture
Temporary pay cuts taken by chief executives during the coronavirus pandemic won’t solve excessive pay and bonus culture, according to...
London top for wealth and productivity but wage gap narrows
Productivity and earnings are at least a third higher in some areas of London than the UK average, although the gap in earnings and wage growth is narrowing.
How PR is the missing link in recruitment media
Black Lives Matter, gender diversity, workplace culture. The way employers communicate about these issues matters more than ever. James Clench,...
Coronavirus and travel: seven questions about quarantine
On Saturday, the government announced that anyone returning from Spain, including the Balearics and Canaries, must self-isolate on their return...
Pensions
Short-term executive pay cuts won’t solve high pay culture
Temporary pay cuts taken by chief executives during the coronavirus pandemic won’t solve excessive pay and bonus culture, according to...
How can HR address concerns over Covid-19’s impact on pensions?
The coronavirus has impacted not just pay but longer-term investments such as pensions. Naturally employees will have concerns over the...
Reward and recognition? The future of pay after coronavirus
We want to give key workers a pay rise, while an unprecedented quarter of the UK workforce has had the...
Minimum wage
London top for wealth and productivity but wage gap narrows
Productivity and earnings are at least a third higher in some areas of London than the UK average, although the gap in earnings and wage growth is narrowing.
Licensing could prevent fashion worker exploitation, ministers told
Retailers, MPs, charities and campaign groups have urged the home secretary to take action on alleged worker exploitation in UK garment factories.
Poor working conditions ‘afflict 10,000 people in Leicester’
Illegally low pay and dilapidated conditions blight thousands of workers in Leicester, it is alleged.
Equal pay
Asda equal pay case comes before Supreme Court
The long-running equal pay dispute between Asda and its shop-floor staff is to be considered by the Supreme Court this...
Thousands of equal pay claims still received by tribunals each year
An average of almost 29,000 equal pay complaints are received by employment tribunals in England and Wales per year as...
Former TalkTalk exec loses equal pay claim
A former TalkTalk manager who claimed she was paid 40% less than male colleagues has lost an equal pay case...
Benefits
Extend paid bereavement leave right beyond parents, urges CIPD
The right to bereavement leave and pay should be extended to all employees experiencing a close family bereavement, not just...
Car parking charges for NHS staff could be reintroduced
The government is considering reintroducing car parking charges for NHS staff as the coronavirus pandemic eases, the health minister has...
Government scraps plan to class coronavirus tests as taxable benefit in kind
Controversial plans to get workers to pay income tax on coronavirus testing kits purchased by their employer have been scrapped...
