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Starbucks to pay for employees' degrees

Date:: 3 April 2019

Starbucks has announced it will fund UK employees through a Bachelor's degree, in an expansion of its US education programme.

HMRC intensifies crackdown on employee benefit trusts

Date:: 1 April 2019

HMRC has launched around 12,000 investigations into employee benefit trusts (EBTs) in the past five years, according to law firm Pinsent Masons.

Workers between 21 and 24 missing out on £200m a year

Date:: 1 April 2019

As the national minimum wage celebrates its 20th anniversary, the TUC has claimed that young workers could be missing out on £200 million a year in pay.

Executive pay: 'Weak' remuneration committees must do more

Date:: 28 March 2019

Companies must do more to link executive pay to that of the rest of their workforce according to MPs who say that "huge differentials" between bosses' and workers' pay are "baked into the pay system".

Lorraine Kelly defeats HMRC at IR35 tax tribunal

Date:: 21 March 2019

The television presenter Lorraine Kelly has defeated HMRC at an IR35 tax tribunal after successfully appealing a tax bill of £1.2 million.

Spring statement: minimum wage review and early apprenticeship reforms

Date:: 13 March 2019

Wages will continue to rise and there will be 600,000 new jobs by 2023 - but only if Britain can secure a smooth Brexit deal, the chancellor has announced.

HMRC reveals private-sector off-payroll working changes

Date:: 7 March 2019

Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has unveiled a series of reforms to off-payroll working in the private sector, following changes that were made to the use of contractors in the public sector.

One million public sector staff earning below Living Wage

Date:: 28 February 2019

Almost 1.2 million public sector workers are "trapped in in-work poverty" and are earning below the cost of living, according to a new analysis.

Rise in auto-enrolment pension deductions will bite take-home pay

Date:: 19 February 2019

With auto-enrolment pension contributions set to rise from April, millions of UK employees will experience a decrease in their take-home pay.

Retailers call a halt to 'unreasonable' HMRC minimum wage enforcement

Date:: 18 February 2019

HM Revenue and Customs should stop its "unreasonable" investigations into breaches of regulations surrounding the national minimum wage according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).

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