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09/17/2026

55% of UK payroll pros feel exposed by Employment Rights Act

The Employment Rights Act 2025 has repositioned payroll from a back-office function to a boardroom liability, and the professionals running it are acutely aware of the shift. In a report published by payroll and HR software company MHR, 55% of ...

09/17/2026

6 min

Summer 2026 forces UK workforce redesign: the CIPD and ONS brief for HR directors

Summer 2026 has produced a structural reckoning for UK workforce planning, not merely an awkward seasonal blip. Research commissioned by payroll and HR software provider Zellis finds that 79% of UK organisations are implementing or actively ...

09/16/2026

9 min

King's paternity review: six paid weeks could add £2.68bn to the UK economy

In Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency, roughly half of all fathers cannot afford to take the two weeks of paternity leave the state currently offers them. That is not a political projection; it is the arithmetic of Statutory Paternity Pay ...

09/16/2026

7 min

Low Pay Commission's Dutch dilemma: UK youth minimum wage at a crossroads

The government is reconsidering one of Labour's most visible pledges to young workers, and the Low Pay Commission's autumn recommendation has become the hinge point. Labour's 2024 manifesto committed to abolishing the age bands that permit ...

09/09/2026

8 min

AI leaderboards are reshaping UK performance reviews: what ACAS and Weightmans say workers must document

Your next performance review may quietly hinge on a number you have never seen: how often you reach for an AI tool at work. Disney, Meta, JP Morgan and KPMG have all introduced internal AI leaderboards that track and rank how staff use large ...

09/08/2026

8 min

UK workers waste 199m paid holiday days a year

Roughly 199 million days of paid statutory leave went uncollected by UK workers last year, according to research commissioned by private diagnostics provider Vista Health and published in summer 2026. The survey of 2,003 UK adults, conducted ...

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

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 ...

09/07/2026

8 min

UK work visa collapse: what CIPD-era workforce plans must address now

UK work visa grants have collapsed to their lowest level since the post-pandemic reopening, and the numbers carry real consequences for anyone whose career plans cross a border. In the year to June 2026, 235,000 work visas (including dependants) ...

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