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Autumn Budget 2025: What the statement means for the employment landscape - Workplace Journal
Rachel Reeves unveiled reforms in the Autumn Budget 2025, with a strong focus on supporting pensioners, young people and employers.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Missed opportunity to support workforce wellbeing, say experts - Workplace Journal
Experts said the Autumn Budget missed its opportunity to support the protection and health industry’s role in workforce wellbeing. 
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November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Extended tax threshold freeze will pull millions into higher bands, Aegon warns - Workplace Journal
Aegon has warned that extending the freeze on income tax thresholds to 2031 will draw millions more people into paying or into higher bands.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Apprenticeship or college place guaranteed for young people - Workplace Journal
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out a new initiative to help young people move into work or further education. 
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November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: ECOS changes delayed
Reeves did not clarify how long the delay will be.
https://workplacejournal.co.uk/2025/11/autumn-budget-2025-ecos-changes-delayed/
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November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: ECOS changes delayed - Workplace Journal
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that she will delay changes to Employee Car Ownership Schemes (ECOS).
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November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Reeves confirms transfer of British Coal pension reserve to members - Workplace Journal
The Chancellor used the Budget to announce a change to the long-running British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Government to index Pension Protection Fund and Financial Assistance Scheme pensions for inflation - Workplace Journal
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced a new policy to index pensions accrued before 1997 for inflation in the PPF and FAS. 
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November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Chancellor ends overseas access to Class 2 voluntary NICs - Workplace Journal
The Chancellor confirmed changes to how National Insurance contributions (NICs) can be used to build state pension entitlements.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Chancellor outlines labour market enforcement crackdown - Workplace Journal
The Chancellor's Budget set out a series of work-focused reforms aimed at tightening labour market enforcement and tackling illegal working.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: CGT relief on employee ownership trusts cut to 50%
The Government estimates that these changes will raise £0.9bn a year on average from 2027-28 onwards.
https://workplacejournal.co.uk/2025/11/autumn-budget-2025-cgt-relief-on-employee-ownership-trusts-cut-to-50/
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November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: CGT relief on employee ownership trusts cut to 50% - Workplace Journal
Rachel Reeves has confirmed that the CGT relief on disposals to employee ownership trusts (EOTs) will be reduced from 100% to 50%. 
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November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: NICs to apply to most salary-sacrificed pension contributions from 2029 - Workplace Journal
The leaked OBR forecast sets out plans to end NI exemptions on the majority of salary-sacrificed pension contributions from 2029.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Autumn Budget 2025: OBR report reveals three-year extension to tax threshold freeze - Workplace Journal
The Office for Budget Responsibility has confirmed that personal tax and NICs thresholds will remain frozen for an additional three years from 2028.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Skills gap in heat pump sector threatens Warm Homes target, report warns - Workplace Journal
The latest report from WPI Economics found there were 76,000 jobs in England with skills relevant to heat pumps.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Government increases National Living Wage to £12.71 ahead of Reeves' statement - Workplace Journal
The Government increased the National Living Wage to £12.71 an hour for workers aged 21 and over, ahead of the Autumn Budget 2025. 
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November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Employment Hero warns tax hikes could push firms to cut jobs
The call comes as new survey data revealed widespread concern among small business leaders.
https://workplacejournal.co.uk/2025/11/autumn-budget-2025-employment-hero-warns-tax-hikes-could-push-firms-to-cut-jobs/
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November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Autumn Budget 2025: Employment Hero warns tax hikes could push firms to cut jobs - Workplace Journal
Employment Hero has urged the Government not to increase employment costs in the Autumn Budget, warning that tax hikes could risk job growth.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Teachers work the equivalent of 67 unpaid days before salaries catch up, study finds - Workplace Journal
UK teachers are giving away the equivalent of 67 days of unpaid labour each school year, according to new analysis by GoStudent.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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92% of employees faced financial stress last year, finds Zellis - Workplace Journal
Zellis has released the Financial Wellbeing Report 2025, showing that 92% of employees in the UK reported financial stress in the past year. 
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November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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AI-driven defences could strengthen cloud HR systems against ransomware, research reveals - Workplace Journal
A new academic study by Jay Barach has examined how cloud-based HR systems could better withstand rising ransomware threats.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Why protecting employee data is an employee wellbeing issue - Workplace Journal
Chris Britton at Reward Gateway | Edenred, discusses why data protection and workplace wellbeing matter more than ever.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Matalan appoints people and talent director
Davies will report to CPO Alyson Fadil and is responsible for people strategy across stores, distribution centres and head office.
https://workplacejournal.co.uk/2025/11/matalan-appoints-people-and-talent-director/
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November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Matalan appoints people and talent director - Workplace Journal
Matalan has appointed Beccy Davies as people and talent director, a new role aimed at strengthening its leadership team. 
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November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Standard Life appoints Angela Byrne as CEO of pensions and savings
Byrne will join in January 2026 and take responsibility for leading the next stage of growth. 
https://workplacejournal.co.uk/2025/11/standard-life-appoints-angela-byrne-as-ceo-of-pensions-and-savings/
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November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM