The amount someone can earn from their job is the main motivator for workers choosing a potential employer, according to Volkswagen Group UK's HR director Fiona Roberts.

Lenovo chief executive Yang Yuanqing will share at least $3 million of his bonus with workers after the company posted record sales.

Agency workers are being paid less than permanent staff despite doing the same jobs, according to the TUC.

The general secretary of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, Ron Draper, has called the use of agency workers at Wigan's Hovis bakery an "excuse for cheap labour".

Care workers are being paid as little as £5 an hour, well below the legal minimum wage, according to a report by thinktank Resolution Foundation.

Britain's three largest trade unions have warned that ambulance workers could strike in a row over sick pay.

Wages in the UK have seen one of the largest falls in the European Union during the economic downturn, research from the Hay Group found last month.

John Lewis staff will be sharing a £40 million pay top-up after the company realised it has been miscalculating holiday pay for at least seven years.

Bonus payments in April increased by £1.7 billion year-on-year to take advantage of a 5p tax cut for the UK’s highest earners, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures have shown.

Male managers received bonuses more than twice as large as their female counterparts last year, according to research from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and XpertHR.

Around two-thirds of UK financial services firms have increased salaries in an attempt to retain talented staff when the EU bonus cap comes into play next year, a survey has found.

Wages in the UK have suffered one of the sharpest falls in the EU since 2008, according to official figures.