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NHS Employers and health unions estimate that longer visa settlement for support workers would cost NHS employers at least £169m. The figure comes from parties opposing the change, and its published inputs do not multiply out to the total.
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A survey of 3,935 UK adults found 2.5% do their best thinking at work, against 61.6% who said it happens between 5pm and 9am. The data are self-reported and come from one published account, so employers get a prompt to examine meeting and message load but no measured effect on output.
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Guidance in Personnel Today says employees increasingly draft grievances with generative AI and that legal jargon now appears in nearly all of them. HR teams have to trim those complaints while keeping each investigation thorough enough to count as reasonable.
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Herbprime Co unfairly and wrongfully dismissed a dispensary worker of 14 years on the day her husband pushed a colleague, an employment tribunal found. The judge faulted the lack of investigation and set a 25% uplift on compensation for breaching the Acas code.
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Britain's government will pay non-levy employers £2,000 per apprentice aged 16 to 24, routed through training providers with no application. On the published terms, it helps firms already planning youth hires more clearly than it makes a case for adding heads.
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Britain's Employment Rights Act cuts the unfair-dismissal qualifying period from two years to six months on 1 January 2027. Writing in Personnel Today, Sarah Kerr argues that a thin probation file can leave a later redundancy score hard to explain.
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