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Pay trends March 2024: Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR Metrics

Our review of pay awards in the three months to the end of January 2024. XpertHR Benchmarking - HR Metrics has the full data from the survey, searchable by sector and organisation size.

21 March 2024

Pay forecasts for 2024: Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR metrics

We share the results of our latest pay forecasts survey, which will provide insights into what the pay landscape may look like in 2024 following on from an unprecedented year of high settlements in 2023. It also provides information on how organisations are planning to meet employee expectations for the year and factors which have influence over the 2024 pay settlement.

21 March 2024

Research of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in HR - Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR Metrics

We share the results from our AI pulse survey, which aims to help build a picture of how HR departments in the UK are adapting to the advancements in AI technology. It explores where AI may be most beneficial for HR professionals, success stories of how AI has had an impact and HR's role in supporting the implementation or experimentation of AI at their organisations.

8 April 2024

Sickness absence rates and management 2024: Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR metrics

Our research will allow exploring how sickness absence rates vary at different organisations, considering workforce size and sector. It will also provide insight on how organisations are managing sickness absence, some of the main challenges as well as leading practices.

April 2024

Employee experience and culture 2024: Survey analysis and Benchmarking - HR metrics

Our research explores how organisations are optimising the employee experience (EX). We look at practices used to measure and understand EX, as well as current areas of focus. We also examine approaches to embedding organisational culture and key challenges encountered.

May 2024

Updated resources

Updates to our paternity leave policy and other paternity letters to reflect changes to paternity leave

Key information  The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024 will introduce changes to the timing and notice to take statutory paternity leave. 
Resources
  • New version of our paternity leave policy to reflect changes to paternity leave.
  • Suite of updated paternity template letters to help support employers. 
Status The draft Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024 have been published and are expected to come into force on 8 March 2024. The amendments will apply where the expected week of birth, the expected date of placement for adoption, or the expected date of entry into Great Britain for adoption, is on or after 6 April 2024. 
Expected date  March 2024

Updates to our redundancy policy, family-friendly leave policies and template letters to reflect extension of protection against redundancy

Key information The Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2023 will provide greater protection against redundancy to pregnant employees and those returning to work from maternity, adoption and shared parental leave. 
Resources
  • Updates to existing redundancy policy, family-friendly leave policies and other related template letters.
Status The Protection from Redundancy (Pregnancy and Family Leave) Act 2023 came into force on 24 July 2023 and the supporting draft Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave and Shared Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024 are expected to bring these changes into effect on 6 April 2024. 
Expected date

March 2024

Updates to our flexible working requests policy and template letters to reflect changes to rules on statutory flexible working requests

Key information The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act will change the rules on statutory flexible working requests, including allowing employees to make two requests in a 12-month period and reducing the time within which the employer must notify the employee of its decision to two months.
Resources
  • Finalised new version of our flexible working requests policy, a draft version of which has been published to help employers to prepare, and changes to our other related template letters. 
Status The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act received Royal Assent in July 2023 and the changes are expected to be enacted on 6 April 2024.   
Expected date

March 2024 

Future updates 

New template policy on allocation of tips

Key information The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 will require employers to have a written allocation of tips policy made available to staff if qualifying tips, gratuities or service charges are paid on more than an occasional and exceptional basis.
Resources
  • A new allocation of tips policy will help employers comply with this legislation.
Status

The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 received Royal Assent in May 2023.

Expected date

Not yet known.

Update to reflect new right to neonatal care leave and pay

Key information The Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay Act will entitle eligible parents to take up to 12 weeks' neonatal care leave if their baby requires neonatal care and neonatal care pay if they meet further eligibility requirements. 
Resources
  • New neonatal care leave policy explaining the rights of employees to neonatal care leave.
  • Suite of template letters to help support employers.
Status This Bill was introduced on 15 June 2022 and became an Act of Parliament on 24 May 2023. 
Expected date

Not yet known.