Pay and prices

Pay and prices (409 words)

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures ...

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Pay deals (700 words)

Agreement % increase hours holidays date number ...

Latest developments on transfer rights (1060 words)

The law on transfers is intended to protect employees who are transferred to a new employer as a result of mergers, takeovers and outsourcing. ...

On call and zero hours' workers (210 words)

UK employment rights are set to be improved as a result of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) a ruling in a Spanish case ...

Applying EU law (128 words)

The EAT has held that an employment tribunal was wrong to refuse to accept an application because the employee did not have the two ...

Amending tribunal complaints (75 words)

An applicant to an employment tribunal cannot ask to amend the "Originating" Application (that is the application to the tribunal) to add a new ...

Compromise agreements (97 words)

Compromise agreements bar individuals from presenting further claims to employment tribunals on the same issue. In effect by signing a compromise agreement, after receiving ...

Further anti-discrimination laws are in prospect (307 words)

UK workers are to get legal protection from discrimination at work on grounds of sexual orientation, age and religion following last month's agreement of ...

Report exposes lecturer inequality (276 words)

Ethnic minority lecturers earn less than white lecturers, are less likely to have a senior job and their jobs are less secure. These are ...

Law doesn't help workers with HIV (348 words)

The Disability Discrimination Act is not properly protecting workers with HIV against discrimination, says the HIV and Aids charity Terrence Higgins Trust Lighthouse (THTL). ...

Pilot project produces first pension statements (210 words)

Last month the first combined pension statements were circulated to over 2,000 employees of the EMAP media group. The Department of Social Security (DSS) ...

Stakeholder pensions helpline launched (121 words)

A new telephone helpline is now available to people looking for general, impartial advice on stakeholder pensions. ...

Age Concern challenges SERPS cut for widows and widowers (157 words)

Campaigning charity Age Concern is supporting a European Human Rights Court test case against the UK government over the failure to inform people about ...

Stakeholder negotiations under way in construction industry (127 words)

Construction unions are in negotiations over the setting up of a stakeholder scheme for the industry. ...

Survey reveals worry over pensions cost (136 words)

Concern over pensions costs means that 21% of employers have replaced their final salary pension schemes with money purchase arrangements for new recruits and ...

Key settlements reached in Austria (400 words)

Recent weeks have seen a number of important settlements in Austria. Some lag behind current inflation levels but all of them exceed next year's ...

Spanish unions target hours cuts (259 words)

Two recent agreements in Spain have achieved limited reductions in working hours. ...

National pay negotiations continue in Belgium (217 words)

Negotiations on a national agreement on pay and conditions in Belgium were still underway as Bargaining Report went to press, although a settlement was ...

Teacher advice on pupil risks (193 words)

The NUT teaching union has issued guidance to members on pupil behaviour and the appropriate response to it. ...

HSE launches campaign to raise employers' awareness of stress (310 words)

Earlier this month the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced the start of a publicity drive to raise employers' awareness of the need to ...

TUC puts case for rehabilitation (262 words)

Every working day a hundred people in Britain leave their jobs permanently because of a workplace injury or illness, a new TUC report reveals. ...

Canteens still provide good value despite cutbacks and contracting out (4016 words)

A Bargaining Report survey of over 270 workplaces found a fall in the proportion with canteens and cutbacks in subsidies. While there is clear ...

Shift pay survey 2000 (2210 words)

Our latest survey of collective agreements is covered in detail in tables 1-5 here and over the page. These are league tables starting with ...

Ups and downs of the minimum wage (600 words)

While the government talks-up the achievements of the National Minimum Wage, most unions continue to argue that it is just too low, and higher ...

£9,000 minimum wage for DTI staff (334 words)

staff at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) got a new minimum of £11,500 those working in London as part of an settlement ...

Ten days' paid paternity leave at ACAS (127 words)

Staff at the ACAS conciliation and arbitration service received average pay rises of 3.9% of basic salaries from 1 August. The rises were calculated ...

"Double break-through" at the MoD (376 words)

Unions representing 13,000 industrial workers at the Ministry of Defence claimed a "double breakthrough" with a pay rise worth nearly 5%, and comprehensive transitional ...