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- Date:
- 19 October 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
With sticky inflation, economic uncertainty and fierce competition for talent, there is great pressure on organisations and their reward strategies. Our latest survey looks at how employers are planning to compensate their workforce over the coming year, their priorities and key challenges.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal's decision that police officers and civilian police support staff in Northern Ireland can recover holiday underpayments that stretch back as far as 1998.
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- Date:
- 5 October 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
Pay awards across the manufacturing-and-production sector remained in line with the whole economy, but some industries have seen higher settlements than others.
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- Date:
- 5 October 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
Pay awards for private-sector-services organisations are consistent with the whole economy, standing high after an unprecedented year of record pay settlements.
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- Date:
- 5 October 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
The public-sector organisations that have implemented pay awards over the past year have typically done so at a level above that paid a year earlier and often in favour of lower-paid staff. We look at the detail, including key settlements in the sector.
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- Date:
- 5 October 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
Despite a marked increase on the previous year, pay awards in the not-for-profit sector continue to fall behind those in most other sectors.
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- Date:
- 21 September 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
The latest XpertHR analysis of pay awards again shows a slowdown in growth overall, although public-sector pay deals are starting to come in at record levels.
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- Date:
- 21 September 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
In this report we provide an overview of when in the year pay settlements are implemented and details of when pay review budgets are set.
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- Date:
- 21 September 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
With pay awards reaching the highest levels of the last 30 years, we review the trends in both basic pay awards and those based on a measure of performance.
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- Date:
- 19 September 2023
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.