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  • Date:
    24 March 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2023 employment law changes: Four tasks for HR

    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.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Forecasts for pay awards in 2023

    In early 2023 pay awards reached a 32-year high on the back of a tight labour market and cost-of-living crisis. Our latest survey looks are how organisations are planning to compensate their workforce this year.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Reward planning and priorities: HR & Compliance Centre survey 2023

    Employee reward and benefits have remained topical issues during a period of high inflation and the cost-of-living crisis. We look at priorities and challenges facing reward departments this year, and how organisations are supporting employees with the cost of living.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Pay awards: 23 March 2023

    The latest pay settlements monitored by XpertHR.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Pay trends March 2023: Median pay award pegged at 6%

    XpertHR's headline measure of basic wage awards remains at 6% over the three months to the end of February 2023.

  • Type:
    Legal timetable

    Changes to pensions allowances

    Pensions annual tax-free allowances increase, and the lifetime allowance charge is removed.

  • Type:
    Legal timetable

    State pension rates increase

    The weekly rates of the single-tier pension and the basic state pension increase.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Pay awards: 23 February 2023

    The latest pay settlements monitored by XpertHR.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Pay trends February 2023: Median rises to 6%

    XpertHR's headline measure of basic pay awards has risen to 6% over the three months to the end of January 2023, one percentage point higher than in the previous rolling quarter, reaching a 32-year high.

  • Date:
    6 February 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Hybrid working and tax: what employers need to know

    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.

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