Commentary and insights

All items: Pay and benefits

  • Six strategies to attract talent and remain competitive in 2024

    Date:
    1 December 2023

    Organisations are struggling to attract talent, but it doesn't have to be that way. Based on our survey findings, we explore ways to help employers address the skills shortage and stand out from the competition.

  • Three ways to start to close the ethnicity pay gap

    Date:
    19 September 2023

    The Government has released its guidance on ethnicity pay reporting. Here, HR, finance and leadership specialist and author Roianne Nedd considers some of the approach's assumptions and shortcomings, and makes three recommendations to help employers tackle ethnicity pay inequalities.

  • The most popular employee benefits in 2023

    Date:
    7 August 2023

    Looking to update your benefits package but don't know where to start? Based on the findings of our new survey, we explore the most popular benefits in 2023 to help employers stand out from the competition.

  • Ethnicity pay gap reporting guidelines: Six key questions answered

    Date:
    24 May 2023

    The Government has published guidance for employers that wish to report their ethnicity pay gap. We look at the government guidelines around what data to collect, how to analyse and make sense of the results, and how to develop an action plan to remedy any differences revealed by the data.

  • April 2023 employment law changes: Four tasks for HR

    Date:
    24 March 2023

    HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2023. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay.

  • Hybrid working and tax: what employers need to know

    Date:
    6 February 2023

    The now-defunct Office for Tax Simplification recently highlighted the need for tax policy to be aligned with modern working practices, including hybrid and remote working from overseas. Susan Ball, employment solutions partner at audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK, looks at what employers need to know from a tax perspective.

  • Employment law 2023: six key tasks for HR

    Date:
    13 January 2023

    We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year.

  • Six findings from the national living wage review

    Date:
    23 June 2022

    The Low Pay Commission's review of the national living wage found it has reduced regional pay inequality and contributed to narrowing gender and ethnicity pay gaps, but it has not led to higher incomes and or any measurable increase in productivity.

  • April 2022 employment law changes: Six tasks for HR

    Date:
    14 March 2022

    HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2022. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay, and the end of HMRC's IR35 enforcement "grace period".

  • IR35: Are you ready for the end of "light-touch" enforcement in April 2022?

    Date:
    14 March 2022

    The reformed IR35 rules have applied to the private sector since 6 April 2021, having been in force in the public sector since 2017. Employers should be aware that HMRC's approach to enforcing the rules is set to change from April 2022.

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