United Kingdom: Employee Benefits & Compensation

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Small Pots, Big Plans: Consultation On Small Pot Consolidation
The DWP has issued a consultation on automatic small defined contribution (DC) pot consolidation. This proposes that from 2030, dormant DC pots worth £1,000 or less would have to be transferred automatically to an approved small pot consolidator scheme, unless the member opts out. The consultation seeks views on the government’s plans for how this would work across occupational and contract-based auto-enrolment schemes.
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Eversheds Sutherland
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Your Share Plan Now Has An AI Audience
Employees are increasingly turning to AI tools like ChatGPT for guidance on managing their equity compensation, but research shows these systems provide incorrect answers to financial questions up to 88% of the time. As AI becomes an invisible interpretation layer between employer communications and employee decisions, companies must rethink how they design share plan materials to ensure they degrade safely when context is incomplete or misunderstood.
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Burges Salmon
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Tipping Towards Greater Transparency – What Employers Need To Know About The Latest Tipping Changes
The UK government has launched a consultation into a revised statutory Code of Practice on fair and transparent distribution of tips, following the Employment Rights Act 2025. The new framework introduces mandatory consultation requirements, periodic policy reviews, and enhanced transparency obligations that will fundamentally change how employers in hospitality and customer-facing sectors manage tipping arrangements.
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Burges Salmon
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Executive Relocation: Ensuring Transatlantic Moves Succeed
Senior executives contemplating a transatlantic career move between the UK and US face a complex web of legal considerations that extend far beyond simple relocation logistics. From restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties to executive compensation clawbacks and cross-border tax implications, the legal landscape demands careful navigation to avoid costly disputes and protect hard-earned financial outcomes. Understanding employer protective measures, jurisdictional differences in covenant enforceability, a
United Kingdom Employment
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Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
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If AI Can Measure Everything, What Should We Actually Reward?
As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday business operations, organisations face a critical shift in how they measure and reward performance. While better data promises more precise incentive systems, the ability to observe everything may create more problems than it solves, particularly when prediction is mistaken for causation and measurement begins to distort the very behaviours it seeks to encourage.
Global Employment
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Burges Salmon
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New Rights For Bereavement Leave To Be Introduced For Pregnancy Loss And Expanded Range Of Relationships
The UK Government has announced significant changes to bereavement and pregnancy loss leave entitlements, expanding statutory rights to cover a broader range of family relationships and earlier-stage pregnancy losses. These reforms, set to take effect from April 2027, will provide employees with new protections during some of life's most difficult moments, while requiring employers to update their policies and prepare for implementation.
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Aberdein Considine & Co
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UK Employment Rights Act 2025 Unfair Dismissal Deep Dive Part 2: Uncapped Awards And New Risks For Senior Employee Exits
The UK Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces sweeping changes to unfair dismissal law that could dramatically alter employer liability. Starting January 1, 2027, employees will gain unfair dismissal protection after just six months of service, while compensatory awards for ordinary unfair dismissal will become unlimited. This analysis examines the specific implications for organizations managing exits of senior executives and highly compensated employees with sophisticated remuneration packages.
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Littler - Canada
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The New Pay Transparency Consultation Explained: Risks And Opportunities For Employers
The government has recently launched a consultation on pay transparency proposals. Principally the government is seeking to ‘fix’ the equal pay system. Amongst the proposals, the government is consulting on whether employers should be required to include salary information in job adverts and to provide written salary information before an interview if the role is not publicly advertised. Ministers have argued that greater pay transparency will help candidates navigate the job market and that this could prevent future discrimination claims.
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Buckles Law
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The Employment Rights Act 2025: Unfair Dismissal Reform And Why High Earners Are Now A Significant Litigation Risk
The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces one of the most consequential changes to the law of unfair dismissal since the right was first created. Whilst much attention has focused on the reduction of the qualifying period for bringing a claim, employers should be equally alert to another reform that could prove far more expensive: the removal of the statutory cap on unfair dismissal compensation.
United Kingdom Employment
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Buckles Law
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Reward Autumn Update 2026
The autumn 2026 edition of the Reward update examines significant proposals to reform directors' remuneration reporting requirements, including changes to the DRR and removal of the annual shareholder advisory vote. It also covers FCA consultation on solo-regulated firms' remuneration, the impact of Employment Rights Act changes on share plans, equal pay reform proposals, and updates to AIM rules affecting corporate governance and remuneration disclosure.
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Macfarlanes LLP
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Government Seeks Views On Its Draft Revised Code Of Practice On Distribution Of Tips
The UK Government proposes significant updates to the Code of Practice on fair and transparent distribution of tips, introducing new requirements for written tipping policies and mandatory worker consultation. These changes, expected to take effect in late 2026, will strengthen employer obligations beyond the current framework established in October 2024, affecting all businesses whose workers receive tips, service charges, or gratuities.
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Freeths LLP
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Amazon Drivers And On-Site Managers: Could You Be Entitled To Employment Rights?
Amazon delivery drivers and On-Site Managers may be entitled to significant backdated compensation for holiday pay, National Minimum Wage underpayments, and other employment rights they were denied. A growing group claim argues that despite being labeled as self-employed, these workers should legally be classified as employees or workers based on Amazon's control and integration of their services.
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Hugh James
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