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Statutory parental payments and SSP from April 2026

The weekly rates that will apply from April 2026 to statutory maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption, neonatal care pay and parental bereavement pay, as well as statutory sick pay (SSP) are as follows:

Budget 2025

Freezing tax thresholds, changing the rules on pension salary sacrifice, and increases to the National Minimum Wage headline the 2025 Budget, as it pertains to HR.

Reforming non-compete clauses

The Department for Business and Trade is asking for views on options to reform the law on non-compete clauses.

Pay data: three months to October 2025

Various research bodies have published pay data for the three months to the end of October 2025.

NMW and NLW rates from April 2026

The National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage rates will increase from 1st April 2026 as follows:

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