Having an employee representative on the company board does not reduce CEO pay
Research from Vlerick Business School shows that having an employee representative on the company board does not effect the CEO's pay at all.
| Published: 22 March 2020
Deadline for third year of gender pay gap reporting approaches
The gender pay gap persists in British business. According to the latest Tiger Recruitment research, 19% of people think their employer doesn’t treat genders equally on pay, while 40% of say their organisation isn’t transparent about how pay levels are set
| Published: 15 March 2020
Top bosses’ pay overtakes average worker’s entire 2020 pay in just three days
Luke Hildyard, director of the High Pay Centre, said: “How major employers distribute pay across different levels of the organisation plays an important role in determining living standards. CEOs are paid extraordinarily highly compared to the wider workforce, helping to make the UK one of the most unequal countries in Europe.
| Published: 18 January 2020
Major global payroll compliance risks lay ahead
Published biennially, in association with the Global Payroll Managers Institute (GMPI), American Payroll Association, Canadian Payroll Association and the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP), the Index ranks the top 40 countries in order of payroll complexity.
| Published: 22 October 2019
Falling teacher pay must be addressed urgently
Teachers are leaving in higher numbers than ever, with the government’s failure to reach its own targets on recruitment for the last five years leading to a shortfall of 30,000 teachers. At the same time, pupil numbers are set to rise by 19 percent over the next decade.
| Published: 27 March 2019
BBC presenter scandal ‘another nail in the coffin’ of CEST tool
According to the BBC representatives, the presenters’ self-employed status was deemed legitimate before the introduction of CEST (Check Employment Status for Tax), but the tool found 95 per cent of them should actually be considered employees.
| Published: 21 February 2019
Advertised HR salaries grow for third year in a row
Analysis of more than 10 million jobs posted across sectors since 2015 found that the average wage advertised for the HR profession has increased by 1.4 percent since the start of 2018, one of the highest rates across the sectors analysed.
| Published: 10 January 2019
Modest wage growth predicted in 2019
UK workers are due to get an average real-terms pay rise of 1.1 percent in 2019, which would be an improvement on the 0.5 percent they received in 2018, and is also fractionally greater than the European average of 0.8 percent, according to research.
| Published: 7 December 2018
Government urged to go further on Ethnicity Pay Reporting
The Government has been urged to go further with its plans for Ethnicity Pay Reporting by making the reporting threshold lower, and introducing a legal obligation on companies to publish action plans detailing how they will do more within their organisations. These suggestions have been made by AAT (the Association of Accounting Technicians).
| Published: 25 November 2018
Not earning what you think you’re worth? It could be your name
A new report reveals ‘Liz’ is the highest salaried female first name, but there are 317 male names ahead of her. The research, conducted through Adzuna’s ValueMyCV* algorithm has exposed the average earning potential of male and female individuals and shows first names can significantly impact earning potential.
| Published: 16 November 2018