Pay and benefits

New and updated

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  Letters and forms

  Letter providing national minimum wage statement

  Updated to reflect the increase to national minimum wage rates, effective from 1 April 2025.

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  Letters and forms

  Letter advising worker they are moving to higher national minimum wage age band

  Updated to reflect the increase to national minimum wage rates, effective from 1 April 2025.

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  Quick reference

  Dates for your diary

  Updated to include dates for June including Global Day of Parents, World Environment Day, National Carers Week and Windrush Day.

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  How to

  How to review your organisation's pay rates against the national minimum wage

  Updated to reflect the national minimum wage rates effective from 1 April 2025.  

• Date:

  24 March 2025

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  April 2025 employment law changes: Five-point checklist for HR

  While the introduction of neonatal care leave and pay is the key change for HR professionals to get to grips with, there are other employment law changes in April 2025. These include increases to the national minimum wage rates; a rise in statutory redundancy pay; and the uprating of statutory sick pay and family-related pay.

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  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Manufacturing and production

  Charts summarising pay awards across the manufacturing and production sector monitored by the Brightmine pay databank.

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  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Not-for-profit

  Charts summarising pay awards across the not-for-profit sector monitored by the Brightmine pay databank.

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  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Public services

  Charts summarising pay awards across the public services sector monitored by the Brightmine pay databank.

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  Survey analysis

  Pay awards: Private-sector services

  Charts summarising pay awards across private-sector services organisations monitored by the Brightmine pay databank.

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  How to

  How to measure and report an ethnicity pay gap

  Updated to refer to the Government's consultation on mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting, launched on 18 March 2025.