The median basic pay award in the three months to the end of September 2026 stood at 3.1%, up slightly from 3% in each of the previous two rolling quarters, but lagging behind growing inflation. The ...

Proposed immigration changes could cost the health service at least £169 million and jeopardise the futures of 12,000 healthcare workers, according to an NHS employers organisation and trade unions.

In his talk on day two of Employee Benefits Live 2026, Joe Fletcher, director of people and culture at AH Worth, explained how HR should build a ‘life events toolkit’ to boost employees’ wellbeing.

From 1 October, the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA) increases the time limit for someone to make a claim at an employment tribunal from three to six months. The longer limit will apply where the ...

The government has said it intends to crack down on what it has termed ‘bogus’ self-employment, potentially meaning up to 100,000 more workers would be entitled to the national minimum wage and ...

A hospitality company that dismissed a manager 11 days after she suffered a miscarriage has been ordered to pay her €25,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission in Ireland. Norah Joyce worked for ...

British Airways unfairly dismissed a cabin crew member over allegations including asking a female colleague if she wanted to join the ‘mile-high club’, an employment tribunal has found, after ...

It’s not just January when people feel the workplace blues. Increasingly, workplaces are also reporting September post-holiday mental ill health and burnout, as Chris Britton explains. Our latest ...

There are concerns that a 3.5% pay rise promised to teachers may have to come out of school budgets, rather than ‘additional funding’. Education secretary Lucy Powell announced in September that the ...

The government is being urged to introduce an ‘apprenticeship guarantee’ to create 20,000 apprenticeship places for 16 to 17 year olds by 2029/30 as part of any programme to tackle the UK’s Neets ...

As the government confirms details of new bereavement leave rights, including for pregnancy loss, Abbie Head examines what is changing and how employers, many of which already offer discretionary paid ...

The time limit for bringing a claim to an employment tribunal has increased from three to six months from today (1 October). The measure is included in the Employment Rights Act 2025 and is intended ...