United Kingdom: Employee Benefits & Compensation

Organizations are fundamentally rethinking their approach to talent management, with the 2026 report revealing a decisive transformation in attraction and retention strategies. What specific shifts are driving this change, and how are companies adapting their workforce practices to meet evolving employee expectations?

The Paternity Leave (Bereavement) Act 2024, in force from 29 December 2025, introduces a day-one entitlement to statutory paternity leave in one specific situation. Where a child’s mother, adopter or intended adopter dies in connection with childbirth or placement, the surviving parent may be entitled to take statutory paternity leave immediately, without needing the usual qualifying period of service.

Settlement agreements rarely arrive at convenient moments. They tend to surface when something has already gone wrong, when a working relationship has reached a point where it cannot realistically continue and both sides need a way out that avoids further damage.

From 6 April 2026 employers will face a number of changes to statutory payment rates and employment law compensation limits.

This Q&A pulls together questions asked at our recent webinar, which provided a general update on recent and upcoming UK immigration law changes.

Nearly 400 employers have been failing to pay the National Minimum Wage in findings published by the Government recently.

Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DC pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings and to support the legal update item on your next trustee agenda.

Our dashboard breaks down what's in the Employment Rights Act, showing how these reforms will transform employment law.

In April the government will serve up the next round of updates from the Employment Right Act 2025, alongside the usual inflation-based increases to minimum...