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09/28/2026

ACAS research: disabled workers face 1.5x more conflict under Equality Act failings

Sixty-eight per cent of disabled workers in the United Kingdom have experienced workplace conflict, compared with 44% of working-age adults overall. That gap, documented in research carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) ...

09/28/2026

7 min

CIPD data meets the proximity penalty: what hybrid workers in the UK should ask before signing

You deliver the numbers. You hit the targets. You join every video call prepared, camera on, from your spare room or kitchen table. Then promotion season arrives and the colleague who spent more time at their desk gets the nod. New research from ...

09/28/2026

7 min

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

7 min

CIPD data: 91% of UK employers upskilling as ERA 2025 tightens hiring

Nine in ten UK employers are now channelling resources into the workforce they already hold. The CIPD's Resourcing and Talent Planning Report 2026, now in its 25th year and drawing on responses from 1,014 HR and people professionals, finds that ...

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

6 min

UK unfair dismissal reforms hand workers day-one rights

Any hire your organisation makes this week will, on 1 January 2027, acquire full unfair dismissal protection after just six months in post. That is the practical consequence of the Employment Rights Act 2025 timetable, and according to ...

09/22/2026

5 min

ONS component revision rewrites a decade of UK reward strategy

On 17 September 2026, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its Component Approach to Measuring Labour Productivity, UK: 1997 to 2024, and the implications for reward and workforce strategy are not minor adjustments. According to ...

09/18/2026

7 min

UK wellbeing benefits outrank salary in hiring, per Everywhen and CIPD data

If you have been on the job market recently, you may have noticed something shift in the pitch from employers: the salary band is getting less airtime, while the mental-health app, the private GP line and the structured wellbeing programme get ...

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