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  • Labour: Work from home but reverse pandemic retirement, over-50s urged

    Come back to work

    Labour is hoping to tempt over-50s out of early retirement with the right to work from home. The shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, has outlined plans to entice over-50s to take up employment again. Speaking with The Daily Telegraph, Keir Starmer’s spokesperson on the issue, Ashworth, said Labour will launch a series of [...]

  • City pay war continues as top US law firm hikes London lawyers salaries to £170,000

    Battle for Talent

    New York City law firm Simpson Thacher has hiked salaries for its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers to heights of £170,000 a year in a sign the City pay war is showing no signs of slowing down.   The white shoe law firm has given NQ lawyers in its London offices a £12,000 a year pay [...]

  • US employment market tightens as companies add 263,000 jobs

    Jobs

    US employers added 263,000 jobs in September as the country’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.5 per cent, figures from the Bureau of Labour Statistics show. Economists polled by Reuters had previously expected US employers would add 250,000 jobs in September.   The figures mark both a slowdown and a tightening of the US jobs market, [...]

  • 5m Brits have more than one job while double that number is looking for a side hustle

    September 27, 2022

    More than 5m Brits are turning to a second or even third job to beat the cost of living crisis, while another 10m are considering it, according to new data out today from insurer Royal London. In fact, a separate study commissioned by GoDaddy shows that nearly one in three of firms that have under 10 employees are secondary [...]

  • Graduate salaries climb at fastest rate in decades despite inflationary pressures

    August 14, 2022

    Graduate pay packets have climbed at the highest rate in decades, despite employers feeling the inflationary pinch. According to a report from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE), graduate salaries were up seven per cent on average in the past year— the sharpest rise in 20 years. On average, graduate salaries have risen two per [...]

  • Three in four Brits want hybrid work to cope with cost of living crisis

    August 10, 2022

    Three in four British workers want hybrid work to cope with the cost of living crisis gripping the country. Employees want their employers to offer flexible hybrid working as inflation surges to record levels of 9.4 per cent in the country, a survey by hiring software company Greenhouse found today. As the cost of essentials [...]

  • HMRC suspects big firms are underpaying £1.4bn due to workers’ false ‘self-employed’ classification

    August 1, 2022

    The taxman suspects big firms are underpaying tax to the tune of £1.4bn, by classifying workers as ‘self-employed’ when they’re actually full staff.  Leading law firm Pinsent Masons claims HMRC (HM Revenue & Customs) suspects companies are classifying staff as self-employed to avoid making Employers’ National Insurance contributions.  HMRC has been clamping down on the [...]

  • Freshfields outstrips Magic Circle rivals with record partner payouts of more than £2m

    July 27, 2022

    The sums paid out to partners at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have surged to record highs of more than £2m, after the Magic Circle law firm’s revenues jumped 10 per cent year on year. The centuries old law firm saw its profits increase for the sixth year in a row, after revenues surged to heights of [...]

  • Macfarlanes’ partner pay outstrips Magic Circle’s in surging to highs of almost £2.5m

    July 26, 2022

    Partners at ‘Silver Circle’ law firm Macfarlanes are set to receive payouts worth almost £2.5m this year, after profits at the City firm surged. The bumper payouts mean partners at Macfarlanes will be handed sums worth significantly more than those paid out to top lawyers at London’s elite Magic Circle firms. Partners at the City [...]

  • Holiday for part time staff should not be pro-rated, Supreme Court rules

    July 20, 2022

    The UK’s Supreme Court today ruled that a visiting music teacher on a zero hours contract should be entitled to the same holiday benefits as her full-time colleagues. The landmark ruling is set to open the door to claims from hundreds of thousands of part-time and casual workers for the same holiday pay as their [...]

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