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Wagamama pledges support for mental health with Shout partnership
Wagamama partners with Shout to donate £40,000 for mental health support, pledging 50,000 volunteer hours and aiming to recruit 1,000 volunteers.
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Research highlights gender pension gap, with single parents earning least
A new report from Now: Pensions and the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) reveals significant disparities in pension savings, particularly affecting single parents.
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Virgin Media O2 reveals ethnicity and gender pay gaps for 2023
Virgin Media O2's 2023 pay gap report reveals a 9.7% mean ethnicity hourly pay gap and a 1.9% mean gender hourly pay gap.
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Forecast indicates almost half of 2024 pay awards will be below last year’s, finds XpertHR
The latest pay forecast data from XpertHR predicts the median basic pay award in 2024 will be 4%, down two percentage points on the median in 2023, which was the highest recorded level for 32 years.
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Asda introduces new employee benefits for care and mortgage advice
Asda announces new benefits providing later-life care advice and mortgage advice for its 150,000 employees, complementing the recent pay rate increase to £12.04 per hour, as part of its ongoing commitment to employee welfare and support.
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Deliveroo rolls out free childcare hours for riders
Deliveroo introduces a partnership with Bubble to offer 1,000 riders access to 15 hours of free, flexible childcare.
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Hays report highlights top salary hikes in 2023 with tech and engineering leading
Engineering, manufacturing, and tech sectors lead Hays' list of the top salary increases in the UK for 2023.
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Primark boosts hourly pay rates for UK retail assistants
Starting from 1 April, Primark will raise the average hourly wages for its retail assistants across England, Scotland, and Wales from £11 to £12, and from £11.51 to £12.56 for those working in London.
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FitFlop launches salary sacrifice nursery scheme to support UK employees
FitFlop introduces a salary sacrifice nursery scheme in partnership with WorkPlace Nursery, aimed at reducing childcare costs for its UK employees.
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Unum announces exclusive partnership with Toothfairy alongside enhanced Dental offering
Employee benefits provider Unum UK has boosted its Dental offering and partnered with Toothfairy, an award-winning digital dentist.
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Nearly one fifth of large employers don’t carry out gender pay gap reporting
The CIPD is calling on employers to tackle inequality in the workplace by reporting and analysing their gender pay gap.
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First pay settlements of 2024 see median award fall to 5.1% as UK falls into recession, finds XpertHR
The latest pay settlement data from XpertHR shows that the median basic pay award for the three months to the end of January 2024 is 5.1%, down from 6% in the previous rolling quarter.