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Users of the salary advance service marketed by their employers say it was all too easy to slip into debt‘Financial wellbeing’ app targets low-wage workers with high-interest loansWhen Andy, a server in Pizza Express, found himself in financial hot wat…
Critics concerned as Wagestream offers loans of up to £25,000 to workers at Pizza Express, Asda and others‘The app’s like candy’: Wagestream borrowers’ concernsLow-wage workers are being offered a controversial new type of high-interest loan of up to £…
Exclusive: Analysis shows covering part of salaries from first day off can boost productivity and employee retentionBusiness live – latest updatesChanges to sick pay to cover part of workers’ salaries from the first day off could end up benefiting Brit…
Exclusive: Announcement expected as part of series of changes outlined in chancellor’s Mansion House speechThe chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is expected to trigger a review of the auto-enrolment pension scheme next week in a move that could ultimately for…
Hundreds of fathers protest with children to call for two weeks’ statutory paternity leave to be increasedHundreds of fathers took to the streets of London and Edinburgh on Wednesday to demand better paternity leave, in a protest that was billed as the…
Measures hailed as lifeline for parents will allow people with sick babies to take up to 12 weeks’ leaveParents with children in neonatal care will gain a day-one right to paid leave in a move hailed as “a lifeline for parents” with sick babies.From Su…
Workers earning under £123 a week to get 80% of salary in sick pay, keeping more people off benefitsMore than 1 million of the lowest-paid UK workers are to be guaranteed sick pay worth up to 80% of their weekly salary from the first day of sickness, u…
From Whitehall to welfare and pay to pensions, here is what Jeremy Hunt is likely to announceThe chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, will set out the government’s plans for tax and spending on Wednesday in his much-anticipated autumn statement. Meanwhile, the Off…
Exclusive: Unite and Unison join campaigners urging government to exempt strike days from maternity calculationsThe UK’s two biggest unions have backed calls for a review of the “immoral” system where pregnant workers lose a portion of their maternity …
More than 62% of fathers would take more time off after births if statutory pay rate was increased, poll findsAlmost a third of fathers took no paternity leave after the birth of their child, as a result of the UK’s “measly” paternity leave rights, acc…