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- Date:
- 26 November 2025
- Type:
- News
Tax thresholds will remain frozen and pension salary sacrifice will no longer be exempt from National Insurance, the Chancellor has confirmed in today's Budget.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Updated to reflect the national minimum wage rates from 1 April 2026.
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- Type:
- Economic data
Updated to include the Brightmine pay settlement data for the three months to the end of October 2025. Brightmine will publish the next pay figures on 17 December 2025.
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- Type:
- Editor's choice
Updated to include new benchmarking survey data on pay awards November 2025.
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- Date:
- 18 November 2025
- Type:
- Survey analysis
After holding steady at 3% for much of 2025, the UK's median basic pay award edged up to 3.3% in the latest quarter - lifted by a wave of public-sector settlements. As employers await clarity from the Autumn Budget and a potential Bank of England interest rate cut, confidence in pay-setting remains cautious but steady.
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- Type:
- Editor's choice
We have launched two new topics covering Northern Irish employment law and Scottish employment law, to help our users with locations there to keep track of any differences in legislation.
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- Type:
- Economic data
Updated to include official earnings data from the ONS for September 2025. The next ONS release date is 16 December 2025.
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide sets out the differences between the law on pensions in Scotland compared with the rest of Great Britain (England and Wales).
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- Type:
- Employment law guide
This guide sets out the differences between the law on pay and benefits in Scotland compared with the rest of Great Britain (England and Wales).
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- Date:
- 30 October 2025
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Sheila Attwood, senior content manager at Brightmine, shares insights into how organisations are managing financial and labour market constraints while still rewarding employees.