Elevate HR

06/23/2026

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 ...

06/23/2026

8 min

UK AI talent gap reaches 160,000 roles: Skilled Worker visa rules and the domestic reskilling case

If you are a junior developer in the UK refreshing job boards this month, you are not imagining the thinning listings. New analysis from Robert Walters and Native Teams projects that UK demand for AI professionals will approach 300,000 roles by ...

06/23/2026

6 min

A decade after Brexit: what the labour data shows in Leave areas

Ebbw Vale cast more Leave ballots per head than any other constituency in Wales in 2016, even as EU structural funds underwrote the town's most visible symbol of revival: a railway station built on the footprint of the old steelworks, which ...

06/22/2026

6 min

UK private-sector pay growth slows to 2.9%

Private-sector pay growth in the United Kingdom has slipped to its softest reading in more than five years, while the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted on 18 June 2026 to hold Bank Rate at 3.75%. Taken together, the two data ...

06/22/2026

8 min

EU Pay Transparency Directive: a practical guide for UK workers at multinationals

If you work for a UK-headquartered company that also employs people in the EU, or you are weighing up an offer from one, the way salaries are advertised and discussed is shifting under your feet. The EU Pay Transparency Directive (Directive ...

06/22/2026

8 min

ONS confirms UK private sector pay at a five-year low

Private sector pay growth in the United Kingdom has slipped to its lowest rate in roughly five and a half years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) May 2026 labour market release. Regular pay in the private sector rose by just ...

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

5 min

Insolvency Service data: 281 May collapses set construction HR's planning agenda

Construction business insolvencies in England and Wales fell by nearly a third in May 2026, according to monthly figures published by the Insolvency Service and reported by Construction News . The headline improvement is real, but it lands in a ...

06/22/2026

7 min

UK Public Interest Test: the TUPE and talent reckoning for supplier HR

The Cabinet Office's new procurement guidelines introduce a Public Interest Test for outsourced contracts valued at £1m or more, and the workforce consequences for HR directors at major public-sector suppliers are immediate, not theoretical. For P...

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 ...

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