• Access a combination of UK talent-focused solutions for better value.
• Insights into pay and benefits data to help manage your people strategy.
• Self-guided learning courses to grow on the basics of their HR role.

Check the tabs for additional detail and examples of what is included in the bundle.

Salary insights: budgets and trends

Salary increase planning made easy.

The job market is hot, which can make it difficult to retain top performers and attract outside talent. To confront this challenge, you need robust and up-to-date data to make timely, fully informed decisions on compensation budgets. Gain insight into salary increase budgets and economic data for a three-year time period.

Topics covered – UK market only:

• Historical trends
• Economic indicators
• Salary practices
• Salary increases
• Salary freezes
• Promotional salary increases

Employee pay: base salary and total cash compensation benchmarking

Create a solid foundation for your pay structure

Employee pay often represents the largest expense for companies, and it’s important to provide competitive compensation that helps you attract and retain the right talent while also balancing your budget. Quickly review and evaluate base salary and total cash compensation (low, median, high) for a core set of benchmark jobs.

50 benchmark jobs organized by job family – UK market only:

• Administration
• Accounting & finance
• Engineering
• Executive leadership
• Human resources
• Information technology
• Legal & compliance
• Manufacturing
• Sales
• Supply chain

Employee benefits: statutory and supplemental coverage

Employee benefit details for social security, retirement, medical, death, disability and more.

Benefit provisions are often driven by the statutory requirements imposed by government entities. As the laws and regulations governing benefits constantly change, tracking reliable information can be time-consuming and expensive.

Note: this is an in-depth annual publication providing a detailed review of benefit provisions and employment legislation.

Topics covered – UK market only:

• Benefits
  • Retirement
  • Death
  • Disability
  • Medical
  • Parental benefits & dependent care
  • Social benefits
  • Perquisites & allowances
  • Flexible benefit programs
• Employment conditions
  • Severance conditions & termination
  • Working time
  • Conditions of entry & residence rules
  • Contract of employment
  • Occupational health & safety
  • Industrial relations

For ongoing developments on topics covered in this report, subscribers to TAAP+ can access The Legislative Digest for a monthly round-up of new legislation. Request more details if you would like to upgrade your current subscription.

Employee maternity, vacation and additional leave policies and market practices

A competitive leave policy to benefit everyone

Establishing a well-rounded, comprehensive leave policy is a major component of any employer’s benefits strategy. Gain insights into leave programs across multiple markets to find out whether your leave policies are competitive and provide valued benefits to all employees.

Topics covered – UK market only:

• Typical market practice
  • Primary caregiver/maternity leave
  • Secondary caregiver/paternity leave
  • Other parental leave
  • Dependent care leave
  • Vacation leave
  • Personal days
  • Volunteer leave
  • Bereavement leave
  • Sabbaticals
• Statutory requirements
  • Primary caregiver/maternity leave
  • Secondary caregiver/paternity leave
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption leave
  • Vacation leave
  • Bereavement leave

Employee car and transportation: policies and allowances

Manage your transportation benefits efficiently and effectively.

Many companies are moving toward a greener future and transportation related benefits have expanded beyond a company car. Understanding local market practices will allow you to determine which type of offering will help your company remain competitive. Review and evaluate policy and cost elements for a selection of transportation benefits to help guide and manage your own policies.

Topics covered – UK market only:

• Transportation Policies
  • Transportation benefit overview
  • Green policies
  • Company-owned vehicle policies
  • Company-leased vehicle policies
  • Car allowance policies
  • Other transportation benefits
• Transportation Costs
  • Vehicle costs
  • Car allowance estimates
  • Rental car estimates
  • Public transportation
  • Typical employer vehicle costs
  • Additional information, including fees, taxes, insurance, driver information, road conditions.

Employee survey toolkit

Access a set of recommendations, practices, techniques and templates to use as you plan your first survey to gauge employee views or enhance previous efforts to do so. Content included:

• Learn about all phases of the survey process, from designing a questionnaire to creating an action plan.
• Get usable content to guide and facilitate the entire survey process, including sample emails, FAQs to share internally, checklists, presentations and much more.
• Access a selection of surveys, ready for you to program and launch, covering topics such as COVID-19 return-to-work; diversity, equity and inclusion; mergers and acquisitions; workplace safety; and more.

Compensation basics for your HR team

This microlearning course covers some of the basic concepts and activities related to compensation, including common terminology, different types of compensation structures, market pricing and pay progression. Learn how to work with compensation data and use your knowledge to guide analysis that will inform data-based decision-making.

Course curriculum

Level 1: Lay the foundation
The lessons and activities in Level 1 will help to lay a foundation of knowledge for you to build upon when you reach Level 2 of this course.

• Video: Compensation components
• Video: Common terminology
• Video: Variable pay
• Activity: What is compensation?
• Video: Compensation guidelines
• Video: Compensation structure
• Activity: What is a compensation structure?
• Video: Job evaluation
• Video: Compensation administration
• Video: Compensation strategy
• Activity: What is an effective compensation strategy?

Level 2: Apply your knowledge

The lessons and activities in Level 2 will teach you how to apply the foundational knowledge you developed in Level 1 of this course.

• Video: Job descriptions
• Video: Job evaluation approaches
• Activity: What is job evaluation?
• Video: Market pricing
• Activity: What is market pricing?
• Video: Analysing compensation data
• Video: Working with variable pay data
• Video: Managing a compensation structure
• Video: Pay progression
• Activity: What is pay progression?
• Video: Pay for performance

Assessment: Are you ready to apply your compensation knowledge?

• Vehicle costs
• Car allowance estimates
• Rental car estimates
• Public transportation
• Typical employer vehicle costs
• Additional information, including fees, taxes, insurance, driver information, road conditions

Designing effective HR policies

This microlearning course provides guidance on the importance of creating and maintaining policies. Learn how to write an effective policy and the steps to follow to ensure it remains relevant and up to date.

Course curriculum

Level 1: Lay the foundation
The lessons and activities in Level 1 will help to lay a foundation of knowledge for you to build upon when you reach Level 2 of this course.

• Video: Why HR policies are important
• Video: Employee position and role
• Video: Country-specific policies
• Activity: Why are country-specific policies necessary?
• Video: Performance and reward policies
• Video: Policies for HR
• Video: Labour relations
• Activity: What types of policies are essential to an organisation?

Level 2: Apply your knowledge
The lessons and activities in Level 2 will teach you how to apply the foundational knowledge you developed in Level 1 of this course.

• Video: Writing an effective policy
• Video: Policy approvals
• Video: Policy communications
• Activity: What is an effective policy?
• Video: Maintaining policies
• Activity: Why revise an existing policy?
• Video: Reviewing and updating a policy
• Video: Socialising policy revisions

Assessment: Are you ready to apply your HR policy knowledge?