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Employee benefits

April 2026

  • A mother using a laptop at home while holding her baby

    The maternity and mortgage struggle of being self-employed: ‘It was overwhelming at times’

    Buying a house or having a baby has turned into a financial nightmare for those who are their own boss
  • An unwell woman drinks a hot beverage with her legs up and medicine and scrunched-up hankies or tissues near her feet

    Sick pay rule changes to benefit up to 9.6m UK workers, TUC says

    Union says new entitlements, part of Employment Rights Act 2025, will help lower-income households
  • Stomach of pregnant woman in pink shirt

    Extend fully paid maternity leave for UK teachers to stem exodus, union says

    NASUWT says full entitlement should be increased to 26 weeks and paternity pay also improved

March 2026

  • scrabble-style tiles spell out the word Isa atop some pound coins

    UK pensions: lifetime Isa shake-up raises fears for self-employed

    As the sun sets on a tax-free scheme used by nearly a million people, there are calls for a better deal on retirement saving

January 2026

  • Aaron Horsey sits on a sofa with his son, Tim, on his lap

    Father welcomes new parental leave rights for bereaved in Great Britain

    Aaron Horsey says measures in Employment Rights Act will give support ‘at one of most difficult moments imaginable’

December 2025

  • Smiling parents looking at their newborn daughter

    Why shared parental leave is a monumental dud of a policy

  • Mother and father with baby and small child

    ‘Lost decade’ of progress after UK introduced shared parental leave, say experts

November 2025

  • 'Dad Strike' Demonstrators Protest UK Paternity Leave PolicyLONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 11: A man feeds his baby during a protest calling for longer paternity leave for fathers, on June 11, 2025 in London, England. Fathers and non-birthing parents are picketing in protest of the UK's paternity leave policy, ahead of Father's Day on June 15. Campaigners from 'The Dad Shift,' organizers of the strike, have said the UK's statutory two week paternity leave, which is paid at less than 50% of the National Living Wage, is one of the worst in Europe and the developed world. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    Wanna hear the one about the low-paid dad who took paternity leave?

    MPs will tell ‘dad jokes’ in parliament to highlight ‘real joke’ of UK paternity leave, which is a class issue

October 2025

  • A woman and a little boy sitting on a hopscotch mat and arranging colourful balls in heap

    ‘Motherhood penalty’ costs women an average £65,618 in pay by time first child turns five

    Women’s average monthly earnings fall by 42% compared with one year before birth, ONS study finds

August 2025

  • Graphic showing jar of money in a trap on a pinky-purple background

    ‘The app’s like candy’: how Wagestream borrowers felt trapped

  • A hand holding banknotes caught in a trap

    ‘Financial wellbeing’ app targets low-wage workers with high-interest loans

July 2025

  • A man wrapped in blanket sitting on a sofa looking at a laptop with a box of tissues close at hand

    Sick pay changes could benefit UK firms by up to £2bn, TUC says

  • She stands at a lectern looking serious

    Rachel Reeves expected to review pensions auto-enrolment

June 2025

  • Protesters in Trafalgar Square.

    ‘Dad strikes’ in London and Edinburgh demand better paternity leave

    Hundreds of fathers protest with children to call for two weeks’ statutory paternity leave to be increased

May 2025

  • Close-up view of cropped hands father with baby on his lap.

    Better paternity leave wouldn’t just help Daddy

  • Baby asleep on father's chest

    The Guardian view on paternity leave: campaigners are right to demand more

April 2025

  • Foot of a newborn baby in neonatal intensive care

    UK parents with babies in neonatal care gain right to paid leave

    Measures hailed as lifeline for parents will allow people with sick babies to take up to 12 weeks’ leave

March 2025

  • a man wrapped in a blanket with tissues on the table makes a work call while his laptop is open in front of him on a coffee table

    Labour unveils sick-pay guarantee for 1.3m lowest-paid workers

    Workers earning under £123 a week to get 80% of salary in sick pay, keeping more people off benefits

December 2024

  • Doctor and laboratory assistant looking at insemination process of the eggfor help in writing a policy.

    UK employers ‘risk losing good people’ without policies on infertility, say managers

    Survey by Chartered Management Institute finds only 19% of companies have a policy in place

October 2024

  • A statue of man calling a taxi wearing an improvised baby sling holding a toy baby.

    Labour’s employment rights bill: what key changes will it bring?

    Improvements to workers’ rights to include day-one universal sick pay and an end to zero-hours contracts and fire and rehire
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