Pay & benefits

Employers across both the public and private sector fear that they are no longer able to offer the pay and benefits packages required to attract and retain key skills, an HR body has warned.

Although less than half of employers have currently budgeted for introducing pension auto-enrolment, just over two out of five expect to level down t...

With unemployment predicted to breach 10% outside of London and the South of England, nearly two thirds of public sector workers would now be prepared to take pay cuts to save their jobs.

Money talks and people walk - how employers can tackle the financial education deficit by teaching basic principles of money management.

The average female manager in the UK faces a wait of 57 years for their salary to be on a par with male counterparts, while equal pay for women HR bosses is a mind-blowing 107 years away.

More than half of UK staff would like their employer to provide a confidential counselling service to help them cope with recession-related stress.

Employers are breaking the law by taking on unpaid interns and the practice should be banned in the political arena in order to set an example, according to policy researchers.

The majority of HR professionals back government moves to promote flexible working, with just over a third already having such policies in place.

Retention issues loom as more than three quarters have failed to reinstate pay cuts that were introduced to avoid redundancies.

The Co-operative Group has set up a scheme to provide 2,000 young people with transferrable skills and qualifications.