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07/29/2026

Grantham Institute's £1.15bn heat finding: HSE gap leaves UK's lowest-paid exposed

During the final week of June 2026, temperatures in parts of the UK exceeded 37°C and the country lost an estimated 24 million working hours. Research from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the E...

07/29/2026

8 min

Survey: cost control, not AI, is squeezing UK graduate hiring in 2026

The Deloitte CFO Survey for Q2 2026, drawn from finance leaders at FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies and conducted in early July 2026, puts a precise number on what many graduates have been sensing: a net 64% of chief financial officers cite cost ...

07/29/2026

7 min

Working Time Regulations leave UK's always-on gap unaddressed, data shows

More than half of UK employees work outside their contracted hours every single day, according to a MyPerfectCV report on UK working habits published in mid-2026. That figure - 55% - is nearly double the European average of 29% and sits alongside ...

07/09/2026

7 min

ERA 1996's compensatory cap ends in 2027: what UK employees and HR teams face

On 1 January 2027, a number that has quietly shaped every dismissal negotiation in England, Scotland and Wales for decades will cease to exist. The compensatory award cap for ordinary unfair dismissal, fixed under Employment Rights Act 1996 ...

07/06/2026

6 min

UK construction pipeline: what the May 2026 data means for CITB cohorts and HR strategy

The May 2026 Construction News CN Intelligence dataset lands as a strategic inflection point for HR and workforce planning leads inside UK contractors and specialist subcontractors. Infrastructure main contract awards fell 55% year-on-year to ...

07/06/2026

5 min

DWP scraps Housing Benefit earnings cliff for 300,000 supported-housing residents

If you live in supported housing or temporary accommodation and you have ever quietly turned down extra shifts because the numbers did not stack up, a rule change arriving this autumn is specifically designed for you. The Department for Work and ...

06/29/2026

5 min

Steel fabrication's tariff trap: Community union and TULRCA s.188 in focus as UK jobs risk grows

A tariff asymmetry that most fabrication workers have not encountered in a policy briefing is already reshaping order books and staffing conversations across UK steel shops. UK tariffs on raw steel imports have doubled, driving up input costs for ...

06/29/2026

8 min

CIPD and Unite flag UK heat liability: the regulatory gap employers can no longer ignore

A warehouse operative in Coventry clocks in at 7am to a building that will hit 34°C by midday. A line cook in Birmingham works a full service in a kitchen hovering near 40°C. A delivery driver in Bristol spends the afternoon in a cab with no fu...

06/29/2026

6 min

DfE apprenticeship funding shift 2026: what CIPD members and young workers need to verify now

On 22 June 2026, the UK government set out what it calls a renewed commitment to young workers, announcing a package designed to move 16 to 24 year olds away from what ministers describe as a degree-by-default culture and toward apprenticeships ...

06/28/2026

7 min

Wales bucks UK FDI decline: what DBT's 75-project figure means for Welsh employers and job-seekers

On 23 June, the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) published its annual foreign direct investment statistics, and Wales produced the standout result: 75 foreign investment projects landed in Wales in 2025-26, generating more than 1,500 new ...

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