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- FAQs
Updated to reflect increases to the national minimum wage rates in place from 1 April 2024.
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- FAQs
Updated to reflect that the national living wage extends to workers aged 21 and over from 1 April 2024.
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- Date:
- 26 March 2024
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- Commentary and insights
With a raft of employment law changes taking effect in April 2024, we provide a final reminder for HR professionals of what their organisation needs to do to comply with the new and amended employment laws. This April, the challenges for HR include: the introduction of carer's leave; reforms to the right to request flexible working; and updated rules on timing and notice to take paternity leave.
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- Date:
- 21 March 2024
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- Survey analysis
With inflation falling, will pay awards maintain the 32-year high we recorded in 2023? We explore pay forecasts data to provide insight into where pay awards are expected to be for 2024 and the factors that are likely to have an effect on these decisions.
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- Date:
- 21 March 2024
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- Survey analysis
Our latest analysis of pay awards shows a continuing slowdown in pay growth as more 2024 deals come into effect.
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- Date:
- 22 February 2024
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- Survey analysis
With the first settlements of 2024 having come into effect, we are beginning to see how organisations are responding following the 2023 unprecedented pay award levels.
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- Date:
- 30 January 2024
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- Commentary and insights
With so much information at our fingertips, working out which data to trust can be an overwhelming task. To help you, we have put away our crystal ball and taken a look back to explore the reliability of our research and to understand retrospectively how accurate our pay forecast analyses have been.
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- Date:
- 25 January 2024
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- Survey analysis
As 2024 dawns, we round-up all 2023 pay settlements and set the scene for the year ahead with a look at the first deals recorded.
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- Date:
- 21 December 2023
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- Survey analysis
In what has been an unprecedented year for settlements, pay awards have not slowed down. For the eighth time in 2023, the median pay settlement value hits 6% and since autumn, public-sector deals have continued to surpass the private sector.
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- Date:
- 1 December 2023
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- Commentary and insights
Organisations are struggling to attract talent, but it doesn't have to be that way. Based on our survey findings, we explore ways to help employers address the skills shortage and stand out from the competition.