Elevate HR

09/07/2026

Home Office right-to-work expansion exposes HR boards to £45,000-per-worker risk

From 1 October 2026, the right-to-work regime governed by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (sections 15 to 25) extends well beyond the PAYE workforce to cover workers on contracts for services, individual sub-contractors and ...

09/07/2026

8 min

REC flags guaranteed-hours risk for the UK's one million agency workers

Around one million temporary workers and contractors work across the United Kingdom on any given day, many of them in the NHS, social care, and logistics, choosing agency arrangements precisely because those arrangements bend around their ...

08/24/2026

6 min

Brightmine data: UK pay awards plateau at 3.2% as CPIH narrows the real-terms gain

The median basic pay award in the United Kingdom reached 3.2% in the three months to end of July 2026, according to Brightmine's latest analysis of 36 pay settlements recorded between 1 May and 31 July. In the same period, the Office for National ...

08/19/2026

7 min

Fair Work Agency and the bogus self-employment push: what gig workers need to know

If you drive for a delivery app, rent a chair at a salon, or pick shifts through a platform, the paperwork probably labels you self-employed even when the day-to-day feels indistinguishable from a conventional job. A joint report from the Fabian ...

08/19/2026

8 min

CIPD and ONS data: UK's entry-level freeze locks out almost 600,000 young jobseekers

The Office for National Statistics released its August 2026 labour market update on 18 August, and the headline figure for young people is stark: almost 600,000 people aged 18 to 24 are unemployed and seeking work, youth unemployment sits at ...

08/18/2026

7 min

UK to scale SEN supported internships as youth jobs crisis deepens

Nearly 1 million 16-to-24-year-olds in the UK are currently classified as NEET (not in employment, education or training), the highest level in a decade. Against that figure, England currently runs just 4,500 supported internship places for ...

08/18/2026

10 min

UK unions demand workplace heat rules as hospitals hit 41.8C

A hospital ward in Manchester recorded 41.8°C in June. A London bus cab pushed past 40°C. A pub kitchen in north London faced a collapsing service with fans that, as head chef Joshua Swinney described, did little more than move hot air around. No...

08/18/2026

9 min

Zero-hours ban to cost UK firms up to £2.9bn a year

A record 1.23 million people in the UK were on zero-hours contracts last December, a rise of 91,000 in a single year according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data - and if you are among them, the reforms now working their way through ...

08/13/2026

8 min

Border Security Act 2025 rewires contractor compliance for UK HR teams

From 1 October 2026, the expansion of right-to-work obligations under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 pulls self-employed contractors, agency workers, and platform-matched labour into the same verification regime that ...

08/03/2026

7 min

Employment Rights Act 2025: day-one SSP now covers 1.3 million more workers

The Employment Rights Act 2025 brought the most significant rewrite of Statutory Sick Pay rules in a generation, effective 6 April 2026. The three-day waiting period that once absorbed short absences without payment is gone, the Lower Earnings ...

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