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Autumn 2025 HR Budget speedread Today’s much-awaited UK Budget did not contain the increases to the rates of income tax, National Insurance Contributions (NICs) or capital gains tax widely trailed in the press over the last few weeks. That said, employees (and their employers) are still...
Non-Executive Director Remuneration update The Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”) recently published updated guidance on how UK-listed companies can remunerate their non-executive directors (“NEDs”) using shares in the company that engages them. This update forms part of a broader regulatory...
Bankers’ bonus reform: cutting the red tape This briefing looks at major changes to UK bank bonus rules finalised by the PRA and FCA on 15 October 2025.
Executive Remuneration briefing The UK Government has published its proposed Companies (Directors’ Remuneration and Audit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (the Regulations). The purpose of the Regulations is to repeal most of the requirements relating to the directors’ remuneration...
More risk, more reward: Financial regulators publish consultation paper on bank remuneration reform Following the global financial crisis, the UK implemented a highly structured regulatory regime for bank remuneration in line with the EU’s approach under the Capital Requirement Directives. In some respects, this regime went further than the rules in...
Autumn 2024 HR Budget speedread The Chancellor today announced significant changes to the ways in which businesses and individuals will be taxed in her first Budget. An increase in employer’s National Insurance Contributions and a change to the treatment of “carried interest” had been...
The IA's updated Principles of Remuneration On 8 October 2024, the Investment Association (‘IA’) issued an update to its existing Principles of Remuneration (the ‘Principles’). The update re-iterated that the Principles are not prescriptive rules, but guidelines seeking to foster good practice and...
2024 HR Budget Briefing In what is anticipated to be the last major fiscal event before the UK’s general election, the Chancellor of the Exchequer today delivered the Government’s 2024 Budget to Parliament. A further reduction in employees’ National Insurance...
2024 Investment Association guidance - executive remuneration briefing On 23 February, the Investment Association (IA) issued its long-awaited guidance on executive remuneration for UK-listed companies. This took the form of a relatively short letter to Remuneration Committee chairs, rather than the usual annual update to...
2023 HR Autumn Statement Briefing The 2% cut in the main rate of employee’s National Insurance Contributions is likely to be at the forefront of employees‘ minds following the Government’s Autumn Statement today, but there were also other important announcements that...
2023 HR Budget Briefing Despite the Government having made a number of other “fiscal statements” in the last 12 months, today’s Budget still contained a number of new and noteworthy tax and financial support measures affecting employees and their employers....
The (not so) "mini-budget"? The Chancellor’s fiscal statement to Parliament today (commonly referred to in the press as a “mini-Budget”) brings significant changes to the tax regime affecting UK employees and their employers. In this briefing, we explore the key...
Pensions Bulletin - April 2022 In this month's Pensions Bulletin, we cover: 
Incentives Bulletin - April 2022 Topics covered in this bulletin:
Employment Bulletin - April 2022 Employment rates and limits; Withdrawal of check-off arrangements; No protection from detriment for participating in industrial action; Determining detriment in victimisation claims Topics covered in this bulletin: • April 2022 employment rates and...