Pay and benefits

New and updated

• Record number of workers on national minimum wage being underpaid

  Date:

  24 September 2018

  Type:

  News

  HM Revenue and Customs identified a record £15.6m in national minimum wage underpayment in 2017/18.

• Labour plans compulsory employee share ownership

  Date:

  24 September 2018

  Type:

  News

  A future Labour government would require all companies with 250 or more employees to give shares to their workers worth up to £500 a year each, shadow chancellor John McDonnell will confirm in a speech at the party's conference today.

• Changes to pay and conditions of school teachers in England and Wales introduced

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Order 2018 provides for changes to the pay and conditions of school teachers in England and Wales.

• How rethinking executive pay can act as a catalyst for change

  Date:

  20 September 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Ahead of the introduction of executive pay ratio reporting regulations next year, Jason Stockwood looks at how CEO pay could be used to ensure employees receive what they deserve and help organisations hit social and environmental targets.

• Benchmark graduate starting salaries

  Date:

  17 September 2018

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  How competitive is your organisation's graduate starting salary for 2018/2019? New XpertHR data enables you to benchmark your organisation's graduate starting salary rates against those offered by competitors.

• Coming soon to XpertHR

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  Updated to include information on the forthcoming Pay award forecasts.

• How to use a salary survey

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include salary data from the June 2018 XpertHR Technology Salary Survey.

• Workplace pensions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a reference to Hampshire v The Board of the Pension Protection Fund, in which the ECJ considered the legality of the PPF compensation cap.

• Basic pay and benefits: health (England and Wales)

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a reference to the Local clinical excellence awards guidance 2018-2021 by NHS Employers and the BMA.

• U-turn on tax cut for self-employed

  Date:

  7 September 2018

  Type:

  News

  The Treasury has announced that it will not abolish Class 2 national insurance contributions (NICs), a policy the Conservative party had pledged in its 2015 election manifesto.