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The Employment Rights Act 2025 has generated a lot of noise. Day one unfair dismissal rights. Fire and rehire reforms. The Fair Work Agency. All of it warranted, all of it well-documented. But buried in the detail of the Act,...

If your business operates a mobile workforce – care workers visiting clients, agricultural staff on zero-hours contracts, contractors dispatched to different sites each day – a Court of Appeal ruling handed down last year has direct implications for how you...

A new enforcement body launched on 7 April 2026, and it has more power than anything that came before it. The Fair Work Agency has absorbed three existing organisations, inherited a budget and a workforce of 550 inspectors, and been...

Every April brings a handful of changes. Usually, they are only tweaks – a wage rate here, a threshold there. You update your software, tick a few boxes, and move on. But 6 April 2026 is different. This isn’t a...

Holiday pay compliance has been a slow-burning problem for UK employers for well over a decade. Most businesses are broadly aware that the rules changed. That regular overtime needs to be factored into calculations That paying basic salary during annual...

April 2026 is already shaping up to be one of the busiest months in payroll compliance for a generation. We’ve written about the Employment Rights Act changes, the Fair Work Agency, and R-day. But there’s another change arriving at the...

One of the most common travel expense mistakes I see businesses make has nothing to do with the mileage rate or the meal allowance. It’s a much more fundamental error that they haven’t stopped to ask whether the workplace the...

Holiday purchase schemes are a popular employee benefit, and it’s easy to see why. Extra time off is something most people value, and giving employees the flexibility to buy additional leave can be a low-cost way to enhance your benefits...