The UK has a pensions adequacy problem. Many people are not saving enough into their workplace pensions for a comfortable retirement, and a significant proportion won’t have enough to...
Read moreDetailsTesco’s efforts to appeal against a major equal pay case with around 55,000 claimants have been delayed by an "elephant behind a screen", according to judges at the hearing....
Read moreDetailsThe government has reinstated the Pensions Commission to address concerns that many people retiring in the future will be worse off than pensioners today, with almost half of working...
Read moreDetailsAcas dealt with more than 117,000 early conciliation cases in Great Britain in 2024-25. This is the highest number of conciliation cases since the pandemic and represents an increase...
Read moreDetailsThe government’s Pensions Review, which will look at ways to expand workplace pensions auto-enrolment, could be launched before parliament’s summer recess next week (22 July 2025). The review centres...
Read moreDetailsThe UK gender pay gap has fallen to its lowest level since 2017 as progress towards equal pay grows, according to figures from PWC. The average (mean) hourly gap...
Read moreDetailsMore than a million UK workers have quit their jobs since the beginning of 2024 due to a lack of flexible working options, CIPD research has revealed. The findings...
Read moreDetailsCLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE BENEFITS EXPERT GUIDE TO WORKPLACE PENSIONS 2025 Younger savers saw an average return of more than 15 percent from their default defined contribution (DC)...
Read moreDetailsAs the UK basks in another scorching heatwave, Google searches for “sickness absence” have spiked 113 percent in the past 24 hours. Provider YuLife, which first spotted the surge,...
Read moreDetailsNine in ten British managers (90 percent) have said that paid bereavement leave should be a legal entitlement for all employees, a survey has revealed. The research from the...
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