High-earners will have to pay 50p tax on each pound of their salary more than 150,000, the chancellor of the Exchequer confirmed.

Alistair Darling has announced plans to tax bankers' bonuses in his Pre-Budget Report speech.

Alistair Darling's Pre-Budget Report must give small businesses help with skills training, according to the Forum of Private Business (FPB).

As the chancellor prepared to give his much anticipated Pre-Budget Report this afternoon, the CIPD has called on him to keep the rate of VAT at 15% until April 2010 and extend the Job Guarantee for...

Employers have been warned income tax hikes, an increase in capital gains tax (CGT), a VAT rise, National Insurance Contribution (NIC) hikes and changes to salary-sacrifice tax efficiencies could come...

An increased focus on equal pay in 2009 has resulted in a number of initiatives that will place this issue high on the agenda of all HR professionals in 2010. In the third article in our series,...

The TUC and Volunteering England have launched a campaign to strengthen ties between paid staff and volunteers.

Employers and staff have been given clarification on what type of behaviour constitutes 'harassment', following a tribunal hearing.

The existing right for parents to take leave from work is to be extended from three to four months per parent, following a European Council meeting yesterday.

Ministers have turned down Liberal Democrat equality spokeswoman Lynne Featherstone's proposals to have a vote on whether equal pay audits should be made compulsory as soon as the Equality Bill comes...

David Cameron is to call for a review of the "straitjacket health and safety rules" in UK workplaces.

Age discrimination is among several reasons for tribunal claims that may come to the fore in 2010. Last year over 260,000 claims were brought to tribunal, where even a successful defence costs an...