Kate Underwood's Media Coverage
Mortgage professionals say a price war is under way and could force better rates than Santander’s market-leading 3.51% in January. Read this and today’s consumer and personal finance news in the Money...
Experts warn laptops, consoles and business tech could rise by £300 after OpenAI secured 40% of global memory chip supply. UK consumers and SMEs face soaring hardware costs amid an AI-driven squeeze.
Christmas celebrations at work are a potential HR minefield
Business leaders are speaking out over the Budget measure which will see the flat-rate working from home tax relief cut
The move will raise taxes by up to £124 for those affected, HMRC estimates.
Weeks of leaks meant few shocks in today’s Budget, but the announcement still brings significant changes for entrepreneurs.
After UK chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled her second budget yesterday (26 November), we dig into the implications for HR practitioners.
The Chancellor unveiled changes to salary sacrifice rules which could impact pension savings for millions
Raising dividend taxes will hurt the UK’s small businesses and entrepreneurial economy, warn workers in the sec…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed the the salary sacrifice cap in today’s Autumn Budget
Experts say Reeves’ £4.7bn salary sacrifice cap will make pension schemes far less attractive, push employers to cut benefits, stall hiring and shrink workers’ long-term retirement pots.
Minimum wage rates are to increase for millions, giving a welcome pay rise to 4.1 to £12.71 an hour for low paid workers, with £1,500 for 18 to…
Minimum wage rates are to increase for millions, giving a welcome pay rise to 4.1 to £12.71 an hour for low paid workers, with £1,500 for 18 to…
Minimum wage rates are to increase for millions, giving a welcome pay rise to 4.1 to £12.71 an hour for low paid workers, with £1,500 for 18 to…
Minimum wage rates are to increase for millions, giving a welcome pay rise to 4.1 to £12.71 an hour for low paid workers, with £1,500 for 18 to…
Financial specialists have argued Rachel Reeves is finalising a "lastminute.com" Budget days before its publication, raising concerns about the Government’s fiscal preparedness.
Today's jobs figures make troubling reading. Unemployment soared to 5 per cent in the three months to September, a high not seen since early 2021, and redundancies are on the rise. Wage growth is also...
Unemployment in the UK rose to 5% in the three months to the end of September, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday (11 November).
Business owners have slammed the BBC after its top brass had to step down for doctoring footage of the US President.
Labour claims to be the party of working people - but who among us fit into their narrow definition?
Barclays, Lloyds Bank, Halifax, and more banks experienced significant disruption due to the outage
Pizza Hut’s UK dine-in restaurants enter administration amid rising costs and shifting consumer habits, with experts blaming a ‘brutal market squeeze’.
It comes as figures published today show the number of payrolled employees fell by 169,000 between June 2024 and June 2025.
Jaguar Land Rover’s plan to axe up to 500 management jobs in the UK should remind employers about their duties surrounding voluntary redundancies, HR commentators have said.
Another banking glitch has resulted in millions of UK workers being unable to access their finances on pay day.
The rate of unemployment dropped to four per cent in the three month to August 2024, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
We take a look at Labour’s Employment Rights Bill and how the business community has reacted to the measures
With HMRC considering more changes to off-payroll legislation, People Management asks legal and tax experts which issues this could solve and what will likely remain unaddressed
With data suggesting theft at work is on the rise, People Management asks the profession whether employees should be reprimanded amid the current economic downturn
Latest REC figures could be indicative of ‘new year, new me’ Christmas rush, but recruiters warn it isn’t necessarily good news for employers
Following the ONS labour market data published this morning expert recruiters and HRs have commented: Louise Skittrall, founder of Swindon-based Robinson Grac
Boris Johnson has revealed his intention to scrap the duty to self-isolate if a person tests positive in England as he fights for his political life.
The Duke of Sussex told US business magazine Fast Company that ‘with self-awareness comes the need for change’ and that the many job resignations during the pandemic ‘aren’t all bad’.
Your self-esteem can take a hit, and so can the business.
Nearly 900,000 alerts telling people to quarantine were issued in the first week of this month after contact with a coronavirus victim in the so-called ‘pingdemic’.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, UK sickness absence fell last year, sparking fears that employees are continuing to work while ill and working from home.
Women want workplace period leave policies as they don’t believe UK employment law supports those who experience severe menstrual symptoms.
Nurses, teachers and shopworkers who have lost their health and their jobs talk about their struggle for support
BUSINESSES have welcomed signs of a recovery after the “massive” loss inflicted by the Covid criss last year.
BUSINESSES have welcomed signs of a recovery after the “massive” loss inflicted by the Covid criss last year.
What can employers do to aid people most vulnerable to unemployment scarring?