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Pay levels and awards

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  • Date:
    14 March 2022
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    April 2022 employment law changes: Six tasks for HR

    HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2022. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay, and the end of HMRC's IR35 enforcement "grace period".

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    HR careers: HR & Compliance Centre survey 2022

    XpertHR research looks at what brought UK professionals to HR and how they are advancing their careers in the profession.

  • Date:
    25 February 2022
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: The role of pay and reward in the HR function in 2022 and beyond

    Duncan Brown, independent government and employer adviser, and researcher on reward management issues, discusses the role and content of reward strategies for 2022 and beyond as HR moves into a post-pandemic world.

  • Date:
    8 December 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    The 10 most important employment law cases in 2021

    Despite the coronavirus pandemic, HR professionals have had their fair share of employment law rulings to keep track of in 2021. We count down the 10 most important judgments of the year that every employer should know about.

  • Date:
    3 December 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment law in 2022: Eight action points for HR

    As well as continuing to deal with workplace issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there will be many other important employment law developments for HR to grapple with in 2022. What does HR need to do to meet its obligations and prepare for the coming year?

  • Type:
    Legal timetable

    National minimum wage rises

    The hourly rates of the national minimum wage increase.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Questions and answers: Average weekly earnings

    From January 2010, the average earnings index was replaced by the average weekly earnings series as the Office for National Statistics' official measure of earnings growth. Here we explain how to use the statistics, and what they tell us about what is happening to pay growth.

  • Date:
    18 August 2021
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Unpaid work trials: Legitimate recruitment practice or exploitation?

    Most employers recognise that recruitment is far from an exact science. A candidate might interview well, but how do we know that they can fulfil the role? Alan Lewis, partner with Constantine Law, examines the grey area of work trials and their interpretation under national minimum wage rules.

  • Date:
    16 July 2021
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Reward benchmarking - what, why and how

    Cendex's Penne Cecil Hutton talks through reward benchmarking, including when to use it, data sources, and how to effectively benchmark all elements of reward.

  • Type:
    FAQs

    Does an employer need to provide evidence that it is meeting the requirements of the national minimum wage?

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