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Remuneration

Opinion

Popping the question: How to ask for a raise

Women work for free for more than two months of the year because of the gender pay gap. To help women fight for equal pay on International Women’s Day, we help you prepare to ask for a raise.

Human Resources

The one strategy that businesses need to retain top talent

What boosts workplace happiness and retains top talent: recognition or big fat bonuses?

Human Resources

Why cash is no longer key to retaining employees

Cash may no longer be king when it comes to recruiting and retaining your key employees says Genevieve Moore, a tax partner at Blick Rothenberg. 

Legislation and Regulation

Salary sacrifices: a change is coming

In light of the new salary sacrifice rules which will be introduced next month, Vaneeta Khurana, National Head of Employment Tax at international accountancy and advisory firm, Mazars shares her thoughts on what the new draft Finance Bill will mean for employees and employers.

Human Resources

10 things not to say when asking for a raise

Here are 10 things to avoid when asking for a raise from Instant Offices

Human Resources

How to recruit, reward and retain your best staff: Top tips for SMEs on employee share schemes

As competition for talent intensifies even further: can employee share schemes make the difference for small businesses?

News

Pay of SME bosses drops 15 per cent in 2011

The average annual pay of directors at companies with a turnover of less than £5 million a year has fallen by 15 per cent in the last year according to new research.

News

Fewer bonuses for AIM CEOs

A new report on directors' pay reveals that CEOs of AIM-quoted companies showed restraint in remuneration last year.

News

Bonuses drive executive pay rises

Top executives in the UK and most other European countries received below-inflation salary increases, but higher bonuses this year.

News

AIM bosses beat inflation

Chief executives of AIM companies increased their remuneration last year by nearly three times the current rate of inflation.

Human Resources

Remuneration packages and share schemes

Structuring the right remuneration package for senior personnel is one of the trickiest tasks a business chief must tackle. Give too much up front and you won’t incentivise performance, but pay out big bonuses and you risk reducing the company’s liquidity, which could even threaten its existence. Then there are all the variables of share schemes to consider.