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- Date:
- 8 June 2026
As immigration and sponsorship rules tighten and pay rates determine whether workers can be employed in the UK, a recently highlighted tribunal case has cast light on whether an employer can lawfully pay a sponsored worker more than a non-sponsored worker doing the same role.
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- Date:
- 3 June 2026
Ministers have launched a consultation on "ending one-sided flexibility", looking at the detail of reforms from the Employment Rights Act 2025 relating to zero-hours contracts, reasonable notice of shifts, and pay for cancelled shifts.
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- Date:
- 3 June 2026
Union membership among public sector workers hit 6.6 million in 2025, up by almost 200,000 on the year before. Meanwhile, union membership among employees in the private sector rose by 76,000 to 2.5 million, according to figures from the Department for Business and Trade.
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- Date:
- 29 May 2026
The Government has pledged to overhaul the "broken" fit note system, beginning with pilots in four different areas. Through the pilots, patients will be offered either an initial fit note from a GP and then referred to community health workers, or the option to be supported by a separate service staffed by clinical and non-clinical practitioners.
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- Date:
- 28 May 2026
Immigration law specialists have welcomed a u-turn on Home Office guidance requiring employers sponsoring migrant workers to conduct right-to-work checks on anyone they "directly engage". In the past three months there have been three updates to the Home Office guidance about whom sponsors should conduct right-to-work checks on - the latest, published on 20 May, could bring much relief to employers with licences to sponsor workers.
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- Date:
- 22 May 2026
The Government has laid the Equality and Human Rights Commission's draft updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations before Parliament. Having received ministerial approval, Parliament now has 40 days to scrutinise the code. If it does not reject it, the Government will set a date for it to come into force.
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- Date:
- 19 May 2026
While 84% of HR leaders in the UK believe their employees would rate their overall experience at work as 'excellent or good', only 60% of employees actually do. British workers are among the least satisfied among seven countries where employee benefits platform Benifex polled employees.
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- Date:
- 14 May 2026
Lawyers representing Tesco workers have welcomed a Court of Appeal ruling on how tribunals should assess the value of the roles carried out by Tesco shop workers in the long-running equal pay litigation.
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- Date:
- 6 May 2026
The number of CEOs who believe AI will lead to reduced hiring has more than halved, according to a global survey, which also found leaders increasingly resilient to geopolitical tensions.
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- Date:
- 4 May 2026
UK employer bodies have written to the government calling for tripartite discussions with ministers and unions on the implementation of trade union access rights in the Employment Rights Act 2025.