Editorial

09/07/2026

REC flags guaranteed-hours risk for the UK's one million agency workers

Around one million temporary workers and contractors work across the United Kingdom on any given day, many of them in the NHS, social care, and logistics, choosing agency arrangements precisely because those arrangements bend around their ...

08/24/2026

6 min

Brightmine data: UK pay awards plateau at 3.2% as CPIH narrows the real-terms gain

The median basic pay award in the United Kingdom reached 3.2% in the three months to end of July 2026, according to Brightmine's latest analysis of 36 pay settlements recorded between 1 May and 31 July. In the same period, the Office for National ...

08/20/2026

8 min

Long-term absence is a Gen X problem UK employers are missing

Long-term absence has overtaken short-term absence as the dominant operational risk facing UK employers, and the demographic driving that shift is not the one most HR policies were designed around. Research from employee benefits provider ...

08/19/2026

8 min

Midlife sleep disturbance carries a nine-month workforce cost. UK HR boards take note.

A longitudinal study from the University of Turku, covered by The Guardian in August 2026, quantifies what occupational health practitioners in the United Kingdom have long suspected but rarely been able to price: disturbed sleep in midlife ...

08/18/2026

10 min

UK unions demand workplace heat rules as hospitals hit 41.8C

A hospital ward in Manchester recorded 41.8°C in June. A London bus cab pushed past 40°C. A pub kitchen in north London faced a collapsing service with fans that, as head chef Joshua Swinney described, did little more than move hot air around. No...

08/18/2026

9 min

Zero-hours ban to cost UK firms up to £2.9bn a year

A record 1.23 million people in the UK were on zero-hours contracts last December, a rise of 91,000 in a single year according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data - and if you are among them, the reforms now working their way through ...

08/13/2026

6 min

UK builds AI jobs 'early warning' data system as workers worry

The AI Security Institute (AISI) has signed a one-year commercial contract with workforce data specialist Revelio Labs, valued at £96,000 and starting on 21 August 2026, to build what the procurement notice describes as an early warning c...

08/10/2026

8 min

ISE 2026 data: UK graduate hiring shifts toward work samples as AI distorts the application signal

Two-thirds of UK graduate employers now doubt whether a polished application reflects what a candidate can actually do. The Institute of Student Employers' (ISE) 2026 Student Development Survey recorded that 67% of employers were concerned ...

08/03/2026

7 min

Employment Rights Act 2025: day-one SSP now covers 1.3 million more workers

The Employment Rights Act 2025 brought the most significant rewrite of Statutory Sick Pay rules in a generation, effective 6 April 2026. The three-day waiting period that once absorbed short absences without payment is gone, the Lower Earnings ...

08/03/2026

8 min

AI CV Screening Under Fire: UK Government Warns Employers on Youth Hiring

A podcast appearance by the Prime Minister has placed two specific hiring practices, virtual interviews and AI CV-screening, into the centre of a political conversation about youth unemployment that HR leaders would be unwise to treat as ...

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