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- Date:
- 6 January 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
In 2025, HR professionals face the unique challenge of dealing with business-as-usual employment law changes, such as increases in statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay, while also beginning their preparations in earnest for the looming Employment Rights Bill. We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year
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- Date:
- 3 January 2025
- Type:
- News
The cost of employing low-wage workers will hit a record high in 2025, according to an analysis by the Centre for Policy Studies.
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- Date:
- 19 December 2024
- Type:
- Survey analysis
With 2024 coming to an end, we explore pay awards implemented this year and assess how settlements have varied across different sectors of the economy.
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- Date:
- 18 December 2024
- Type:
- News
Most employees (60%) are not expecting a Christmas bonus, while just 8% anticipate a bigger payout this year.
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- Date:
- 18 December 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
With reward programmes making up such a large percentage of your organisation's budget, it's no surprise that HR needs to be able to explain and prove their ROI. You need to get them "right". Easy, not! To help you meet this challenge, award-winning HR leader and consultant and bestselling author Debra Corey sets out six things you need to think about and address.
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- Date:
- 12 December 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The announcement of National Insurance Contributions (NICs) increases in the October Budget has had an impact on many organisations' 2025 pay rise plans. We look at the expected effect on pay award budgets.
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- Date:
- 9 December 2024
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Our regular update of the economy, labour market and pay-setting environment will help organisations prepare for their 2025 pay and benefits reviews.
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- Date:
- 27 November 2024
- Type:
- News
Some of the government's impact assessments of the Employment Rights Bill were 'not fit for purpose' and the policies could lead to lower wages and fewer jobs, according to a statement published by the Regulatory Policy Committee.
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- Type:
- Quick reference
Updated to reflect the proposed state pension rates for 2025/26.
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- Date:
- 25 November 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Although the formal Bill is yet to be published, the Government has outlined plans to require organisations with 250 and more employees to report their ethnicity and disability pay data. To prepare HR leaders for this change, Brightmine and HR Grapevine convened a roundtable discussion to address the practical and cultural challenges of expanded pay gap reporting.