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09/28/2026

Brightmine's bonus data: a 44% gender gap the Equality Act does not yet fully illuminate

Seven years of mandatory gender pay gap reporting under the Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2017 have produced a visible narrowing in headline salary figures for UK employers. Bonus pay has followed a different ...

09/25/2026

8 min

Employment Rights Act 2025 bereavement reforms: the April 2027 compliance calendar for UK HR teams

The government's consultation response, published on 22 September 2026, confirmed that a materially wider statutory bereavement leave right will take effect in April 2027 as a day-one entitlement under the Employment Rights Act 2025 . For ...

09/25/2026

11 min

Keep Britain Working: the Workplace Health System and what it means for SMEs and employees

Three in four people employed by a large organisation in the United Kingdom can access occupational health (OH) support through their job. For someone working at a small business with fewer than 50 staff, that figure falls to roughly one in four. ...

09/22/2026

7 min

IPPR's youth vacancy index: a six-fold postcode gap that HR cannot ignore

Youth unemployment in the United Kingdom is not a motivation problem. A new analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has put a precise number on what many post-industrial communities have long suspected: the scarcity is ...

09/22/2026

8 min

Carers UK: 1,500 daily exits reframe the retention calculus for UK HR teams

Around 1,500 employees are walking out of paid work every day to take on unpaid caring responsibilities, according to research published by Carers UK in July 2026. That rate represents a 150% increase on the equivalent figure from 2019, and over ...

09/22/2026

8 min

Deloitte UK's £958m shadow-AI finding: what NCSC, ICO and ERA 1996 mean for workers and HR teams

UK workers are collectively spending an estimated £958 million a year of their own money on generative AI tools they use for their jobs, according to Deloitte UK's GenAI Workforce Survey, conducted by Ipsos between 7 May and 10 June 2026 across 2...

09/17/2026

8 min

DSIT awards £3.6m to support 300 women into frontier tech roles

A £3.6m contract, 300 placements, and an annual economic loss that the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) itself puts at £2bn to £3.5bn. Those are the headline figures behind the TechFirst Women's Programme, which DSIT has aw...

09/17/2026

7 min

Preston's AI bootcamp for Neets: what ONS data and apprenticeship law say you should check first

If you are between 16 and 24, out of work and not in any form of study or training, a government-funded experiment in Preston is actively looking for people like you. A three-week AI bootcamp running at the Vault community hub in Lancashire is ...

09/16/2026

6 min

IDR survey: UK's 2027 pay round settles into a 3% holding pattern

The early data on 2027 pay intentions offers little comfort to UK workers hoping for a meaningful improvement on recent years. According to the latest survey from Incomes Data Research (IDR), nearly three-quarters of UK organisations expect their ...

09/16/2026

7 min

HESA data confirms UK CS coding jobs fell to 28%: where to look next

The job market for UK computer science graduates has shifted under their feet, and the data now makes that shift visible. The share of CS graduates landing professional coding or programming roles fell from around 40% to 28% in a single year, ...

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