Pay and benefits

New and updated

• Policy setting out an employee assistance programme

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Are employers required to pay apprentices the national minimum wage?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Can accommodation provided to employees be taken into account when calculating payment of the national minimum wage?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Fixed-term employee's remuneration contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include new rates of the national minimum wage, effective from 1 April 2018.

• Part-time worker's remuneration contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include new rates of the national minimum wage, effective from 1 April 2018.

• Younger staff 'don't know how pensions work'

  Date:

  27 March 2018

  Type:

  News

  Employees, especially younger staff, do not understand their pensions and could be putting their financial wellbeing at risk. Ashleigh Wight reports.

• More than half of HR professionals expect a pay rise in 2018

  Date:

  23 March 2018

  Type:

  News

  More than half (58%) of UK HR professionals expect to receive a pay rise this year, according to a study by recruitment company Robert Walters.

• Pay awards: 22 March 2018

  Date:

  22 March 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  The table below summarises the latest pay settlements monitored by XpertHR.

• Pay trends March 2018: Upturn in pay awards continues

  Date:

  22 March 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR's analysis of the latest pay awards for early 2018 reveals that the increase in levels seen last month is being maintained and many employers are optimistic about the year ahead.

• Forecasts for pay awards in 2018

  Date:

  22 March 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Early indications show that the first 2018 pay awards rose to their highest level in almost four years, and now employers tell us that they expect this pattern to continue through the year.