Budget 2025: key points at a glance Reeves’s opening remarks The chancellor’s opening remarks are somewhat overshadowed by the fact that the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) assessment of her budget’s impact were accidentally published early, in an unprecedented gaffe that the shadow chancellor, Mel Stride, called “outrageous”. At the dispatch box, Reeves opens by…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered Labour’s first Budget since 2010, after the party’s return to power in July’s general election. She announced tax rises worth £40bn to fund the NHS and other public services. Here is a summary of the main measures. This is not a Budget we want to repeat, says Reeves How the…
The government has unveiled the first phase of its much anticipated overhaul of workers’ rights – People Management runs down the most significant takeaways The government published its employment rights bill on 10 October 2024, encompassing 28 individual reforms to boost pay and productivity and improve security for workers, marking the first in a series of…
Minimum wage to increase to £11.44 per hour from April 2024 Biggest ever increase to the National Living Wage, worth over £1,800 a year for a full-time worker, fulfils manifesto pledge to end low pay. Since 2010 the National Living Wage will have doubled in cash terms from around £10,500 to nearly £21,000 a year…
Miners and Couriers are the worst occupations in the UK according to the latest research from job search engine Adzuna.co.uk. Translators and Web Developers were crowned as the best jobs of 2013. Doctors and Pilots suffer the most stress at work, while Travel Agents and Supermarket Cashiers have the worst outlook for 2014. The study,…