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06/29/2026

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...

06/25/2026

7 min

CEO narcissism may be driving return-to-office mandates

For three years, return-to-office mandates across the UK have arrived dressed in the language of productivity: collaboration suffers at home, junior staff miss out on mentorship, culture erodes on video calls. Research from the Wharton School at ...

06/25/2026

6 min

UK has no maximum workplace temperature law: what to do

Britain is heading into a period of extreme heat, with the Met Office issuing warnings of temperatures approaching 40°C, and the question arriving in every HR inbox and group chat is identical: at what temperature does work legally have to stop? T...

06/23/2026

7 min

CEST credibility gap: IR35 Shield FOI data shows 71% collapse in HMRC tool usage

HMRC's Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool is shedding users at a rate that demands an explanation. Figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request by compliance specialist IR35 Shield and reported by The Register show that CEST ...

06/23/2026

7 min

Royal Mail's 6,500 daily sick days and what they reveal

Royal Mail's chief executive, Martin Seidenberg of International Distribution Services, disclosed at The Times CEO Summit that approximately 6,500 postal workers are absent on any given working day. Across a workforce of roughly 130,000, that is ...

06/22/2026

7 min

Employment Rights Act 2025: what UK HR teams must rewrite

The Employment Rights Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, handing every HR function in the United Kingdom a phased but non-negotiable compliance timetable. The headline measure that dominated pre-legislative debate, a pure day-one ...

06/22/2026

7 min

UK CEOs still over 50 and male, new study finds

The demographic profile of the FTSE 100 CEO has barely shifted in a decade, and for People & Culture directors running multi-year succession plans, that fact is operationally significant. According to the Heidrick & Struggles Route to the Top ...

05/29/2026

7 min

Minimum Wage in Europe 2026: East vs. West, North vs. South

Europe’s 2026 minimum-wage map is not a single ladder from “rich” to “poor”. It is a layered regional system shaped by statutory wage laws, collective bargaining traditions, inflation indexation, sectoral agreements, and different salary-payment s...

05/29/2026

7 min

Public Holidays in 2026: Which Major Countries Have the Most Days Off?

Planning a global work calendar, managing distributed teams, and configuring international payroll platforms in 2026 requires a deep understanding of how different cultures and legislative systems approach public holidays. For companies utilizing ...

05/29/2026

7 min

Statutory vs. Collective: How Nordic Countries and Austria Beat the Legal Minimum Wage

For corporate leadership, global expansion strategists, and international HR executives, a statutory national minimum wage is typically viewed as the ultimate benchmark of worker protection. Conventional economic logic dictates that without a ...

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