Financial benefits

Fresh calls for the government to raise the minimum auto enrolment (AE) contributions that employers need to pay have come from investment platform provider Tillit. The call follows the...

Close to half of UK employers (48 percent) have reported that budgets earmarked for salary increases in 2024 were lower than budget pots in 2023, according to a report...

Extra support will be available for employee savers under proposals to change the rules on pension advice and guidance. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed that providers and...

Half of UK employers are addressing or planning to address pay transparency within the next one to two years, research from Mercer has revealed.  There is a growing focus...

The EU pay transparency directive brings risks and opportunities for employers as the first pay reports will be required by the second half of 2027, according to a new...

Close to half of professionals hoping for an end of year bonus will be disappointed, salary data has revealed. Robert Walters' Salary Survey with employers found that 45 percent...

More than half (53 percent) of HR professionals say that it is very or fairly important to their organisation that their workplace pension provider has a lower than average...

More than three-quarters (77 percent) of UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are reviewing their employee benefits with plans to boost packages, research has found. The research from Howden...

An employment tribunal has ruled that a Goldman Sachs employee was unfairly dismissed after taking six months of paternity leave and was subjected to direct sex discrimination. Jon Reeves,...

A coalition of unions, health and disability charities and other organisations have signed a joint letter urging the government to improve statutory sick pay (SSP) for workers. The letter...