Labour market

06/22/2026

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

5 min

JCT, CIPD, and the retentions ban: what UK construction HR leads should do now

The Commercial Payments Bill, introduced in the House of Lords in May 2026, is advancing through Parliament with a single structural consequence that will reach HR desks well before Royal Assent: the proposed ban on cash retentions in ...

06/22/2026

5 min

UK vacancies down 4.2% to 707,000: use ASHE, not the headline

UK job vacancies fell to 707,000 in the March to May 2026 quarter, the lowest reading since February to April 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure lands below pre-pandemic levels and arrives in the same ...

06/18/2026

6 min

ONS April GDP slip: what retail and hospitality workers should do now

If you work in retail, manufacturing or hospitality, the ONS figure published this month is worth a careful read. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the UK economy contracted by 0.1% in April, with the Iran conflict and the ...

06/18/2026

6 min

Nautilus International backs new cross-Channel seafarer wage floor

A government consultation opened on 5 June 2026 by the Department for Transport marks a genuine shift in how far UK employment law is prepared to follow a worker across the water. The proposals would extend a national minimum wage equivalent and ...

06/18/2026

6 min

NHS Copilot rollout: where do your 43 saved minutes actually go

NHS England has confirmed that more than 500,000 staff across clinical and administrative roles will be given access to Microsoft Copilot, following a trial the organisation says produced average daily time savings of 43 minutes per user. If you ...

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