Over two-fifths (43%) of businesses have had employees absent from work for more than four weeks due to ill health in the last two years.

The UK’s main inflation measure in August 2019 was 1.7%.

The Labour Party has published far-reaching proposals for the reform of workplace rights which would move away from the current system of enforcement via the tribunal system to instead having more enforcement via government agencies.

HMRC has announced new advisory fuel rates, from 1 September 2019, for employees using a company car.

There looks to have been a slight uptick in median pay awards.