HR Hub

The UK’s inflation rate in December 2025, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), was 3.4%.

The UK’s inflation rate in November 2025, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), was 3.2%.

From 1 December 2025, the period allowed for early conciliation is 12 weeks.

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:

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.