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08/18/2026

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 ...

08/03/2026

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 ...

07/28/2026

7 min

CIPD-tracked AI skills are quietly reshaping UK promotion and pay criteria

A quiet reordering is taking place in how UK employers decide who progresses and who stays put. According to a HiBob survey reported by Personnel Today, 77% of organisations expect to treat AI skills as standard across all roles, including ...

07/22/2026

7 min

FTSE 100 CEO pay hits record £5.06m: what the 130:1 ratio means for your pay packet

The typical chief executive of a FTSE 100 company now takes home 130 times the pay of the median full-time UK worker, the widest gap in eight years and the highest absolute figure on record. If you work for one of Britain's largest listed ...

06/30/2026

7 min

The £123,543 unfair dismissal cap ends in 2027: what UK senior staff need to do now

Something has shifted in the tone of senior meetings at a number of UK employers, and it is not accidental. The Financial Times has reported that some companies are accelerating the exits of highly paid staff ahead of 1 January 2027, the date on ...

06/29/2026

5 min

Steel fabrication's tariff trap: Community union and TULRCA s.188 in focus as UK jobs risk grows

A tariff asymmetry that most fabrication workers have not encountered in a policy briefing is already reshaping order books and staffing conversations across UK steel shops. UK tariffs on raw steel imports have doubled, driving up input costs for ...

06/29/2026

5 min

UK pay awards held flat in May 2026: how to negotiate salary

If you are building up to a pay conversation in the second half of 2026, the backdrop has shifted in a way that is easy to miss. Pay awards held flat through May 2026, according to predictions issued by Brightmine and reported by Personnel Today, ...

06/22/2026

6 min

UK private-sector pay growth slows to 2.9%

Private-sector pay growth in the United Kingdom has slipped to its softest reading in more than five years, while the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted on 18 June 2026 to hold Bank Rate at 3.75%. Taken together, the two data ...

06/22/2026

8 min

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 ...

06/18/2026

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 ...

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