Gender pay obligations across EMEA

While HR professionals may feel they've now got to grips with gender pay reporting, similar legislation is being introduced in other countries. So HR must understand regional variations

Hot topic: Peer-to-peer bonuses, part two

A growing number of businesses have introduced peer-to-peer bonuses, otherwise known as ‘microtippping’, according to the BBC

Pakistani and Bangladeshi staff face worst ethnicity pay gaps

Campaigners have called for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) exposes sluggish progress on BAME workers' pay

Hot topic: Peer-to-peer bonuses

A growing number of businesses have introduced peer-to-peer bonuses, otherwise known as ‘microtippping’, according to the BBC

Scrapping bonuses: The legal lowdown

As economic and political uncertainty continues to grip the nation, some firms are considering making savings by scrapping or withholding bonuses

Legal lowdown: The Wahaca ‘eat and run’ incident

There are wider lessons to draw from Wahaca being compelled to withdraw its practice of deducting pay from staff after customers left without paying

Employees turning to side hustles to make ends meet

Employees are taking up side hustles to earn more money rather than out of enjoyment, according to research from CV-Library

Junior doctors to vote on contract changes

The British Medical Association (BMA) and NHS Employers are putting new proposals, including 2% annual pay uplifts, to a referendum following ongoing contract disputes

Equal pay on a global scale

Geneva-based Philip Morris International strove to ensure its operations around the world could be certified as paying men and women equally

Boosting the diversity of internship intake

Cancer Research UK tackled poor diversity in its entry-level roles by becoming the first big UK charity to make all internships paid

Employers risk losing contractors in IR35 changes

Brookson Legal has warned employers against taking a blanket approach to IR35 assessments ahead of the private sector rollout in April 2020

Workers can't afford to get to work

Rising fuel costs are having a detrimental effect on financial wellbeing