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09/09/2026

REC coalition challenges ERA 2025 guaranteed-hours rules for UK agency workers

Around 1.57 million people in the UK earn a living through temporary agency work, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the February to April 2026 quarter. A clause inside the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025), due to ...

09/09/2026

7 min

BRC's Opening Shift placement: the questions to put to your work coach

If you are aged 18 to 24, claiming Universal Credit, and running into job adverts that demand experience you have never been given a fair chance to acquire, Opening Shift may already be on your radar. Launched jointly by the British Retail ...

09/08/2026

6 min

Managers erode judgement by outsourcing thinking to AI

A research team led by the University of Bath's School of Management has published findings in the Academy of Management Review that should interest anyone who reports to, or is responsible for developing, managers in a British workplace. The ...

09/08/2026

8 min

Rehabs UK, ACAS and the Equality Act: your rights on substance use at work

A Bupa study found that 57% of UK employees have experienced difficulties with some form of addiction - a figure that cuts across sectors, salary bands and job titles. If you have poured a second drink to get through a brutal week, leaned on ...

09/08/2026

7 min

Centre for Ageing Better's NETER metric exposes the 2.9 million older workers UK hiring funnels filter out

Nearly 2.9 million people in the UK aged 50 to state pension age are neither working, training, in education nor retired. The Centre for Ageing Better has coined a term for this group: NETER. What makes the figure arresting is its scale relative ...

09/08/2026

8 min

Half of Gen Z UK workers feel guilty using AI at work

Half of Gen Z workers in the UK feel guilty using AI to produce work, and 42% use it without telling their employer, according to research commissioned by employment software company Employment Hero. The same study finds that 64% of UK employers ...

09/08/2026

7 min

Hidden NEETs: The 300,000 Young Workers UK Hiring Teams Cannot See

A cohort of roughly 300,000 young people aged 18 to 24 sits entirely outside the UK welfare system: no benefit claim, no Jobcentre Plus contact, and no route into the government's flagship employment support schemes. According to the Institute ...

09/08/2026

6 min

CIPD pay equity lens: the £650 compression gap putting UK junior retention at risk

A £650 annual pay gap sits at the centre of a quiet retention problem spreading across UK workplaces. That figure, drawn from research by HR software specialist Iris Software Group covering 500 UK employees with two to five years of experience a...

09/08/2026

6 min

6.3m UK workers face insecure hours ahead of new law

The compliance timetable for the Employment Rights Act 2025 is now fixed, and the secondary legislation that will calibrate its most operationally demanding provisions is being shaped right now. The government confirmed that the Act's ...

09/08/2026

9 min

Equality Act exposure and the Employment Rights Act: UK employers' disability training gap

Seven in ten UK employers have not trained managers on disability discrimination or staff on neurodiversity, according to a VinciWorks poll of 398 HR, legal and compliance professionals. That gap carried reputational cost in 2024. From January ...

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