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- Date:
- 24 March 2023
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
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.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
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.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
XpertHR's headline measure of basic wage awards remains at 6% over the three months to the end of February 2023.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
Pensions annual tax-free allowances increase, and the lifetime allowance charge is removed.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
The weekly rates of the single-tier pension and the basic state pension increase.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
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.
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- Date:
- 6 February 2023
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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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- Date:
- 23 January 2023
- Type:
- News
Two long-awaited bills - one that makes it illegal for employers to withhold tips from workers, and another that gives employees the right to neonatal leave and pay - have passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
As 2023 dawns it appears likely that pay awards will continue to lag behind inflation over the next 12 months, with the resulting cut in real wages set to hit employees hard.