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Workplace Report October 2024
Pay and prices - Pay View:Cost of living News: Bargaining - Pay - Europe - Equality – Training. Law in action: Discrimination - Minimum wage - TUPE and NHS restructure - Vaccine refusal Features: AI, algorithms and collective bargaining - The right to disconnect: how does it work in Europe
A different - if not new - approach to work (226 words)
Our lead feature in this month’s Workplace Report, highlights the dangers of using AI and algorithms to manage people at work. As the article ...
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Pay and prices
Pay deals average 5% - above inflation but growth slowing (325 words)
New deals reported to LRD Payline show that pay increases have remained strong for the lowest paid in August. The latest three-month medians show ...
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Payline: median pay deals (110 words)
Percentage increase for those on the lowest basic rates, calculated on a 3-monthly basis. ... Open access
Average weekly earnings (110 words)
Source: ONS average weekly earnings monthly survey data ... Open access
Average weekly pay by occupational group (50 words)
Source: ONS: ASHE 2023 figures increased by average weekly rises in earnings ... Open access
News
Featured Payline deals (422 words)
This month’s deals include several later stage increases where workers have recieved uplifts as high as 22% over a two-year period. For example, ... Subscribers only
GMB and Unite win 10% pay deal at Diageo (229 words)
GMB and Unite members at Diageo, the world’s biggest spirits company, have accepted a 10.3% pay deal after rejecting an initial offer of 6.8%. The ... Open access
Union success at Scotrail: Unite accept pay offer and Aslef (244 words)
Over 300 Unite members at Scotrail have accepted a 4.5% pay rise backdated to April 2024, with a 91% vote in support of the deal. Unite represents ... Open access
Asda equal pay claim with huge implications (349 words)
A landmark equal pay claim brought by over 60,000 Asda workers has begun in Manchester. ... Subscribers only
Dutch unions get 6.7% but want more (409 words)
FNV, the largest union confederation in the Netherlands, has set out its pay and conditions demands for the 2025 negotiating round. ... Subscribers only
Local Government strike ballots (429 words)
UNISON and Unite have launched industrial action ballots for council and school staff over the 2024 local government pay offer. Both unions are ... Subscribers only
Spanish unions push for cut in hours (168 words)
Spain’s two main union confederations, CCOO and the UGT, are maintaining their pressure for a statutory cut in weekly working time from the current ... Open access
Aslef members accept deal that brings to an end the longest train drivers’ strike in history (348 words)
Train drivers have accepted a pay deal that will see the end of more than two years of strike action in England, Scotland and Wales. ... Subscribers only
New violence policy to tackle domestic abuse (200 words)
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has implemented a new domestic abuse and gender-based violence policy aimed at fostering a safe, ... Open access
One in four unions say equality policies diluted (428 words)
The improved climate for equality bargaining reported in the TUC’s 2020 equality audit does not appear to have continued, latest research shows. ... Subscribers only
Training package part of steel deal (234 words)
The news in January that Tata Steel had decided to close both blast furnaces at its Port Talbot site triggered fears about the 2,800 jobs at risk and ... Open access
Law in Action: Efficient management could justify discrimination (512 words)
Ms Hilton-Webb is a disabled person with impaired vision. Her employer, Minis Childcare Ltd (MCL) provided information to staff on documents using ... Subscribers only
Law in Action: No minimum wage for travel time (539 words)
Taylors Service Ltd (TSL) employed staff on zero-hours contracts to work on poultry farms. A TSL minibus transported workers directly from home to ... Subscribers only
Law in Action: Series of fixed-term contracts justified (529 words)
Ms Lobo worked under a series of fixed-term contracts as a Consultant Breast Surgeon for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ... Subscribers only
Law in Action: Not liable for inducing discrimination (711 words)
Ms Bailey was a barrister at Garden Court Chambers (GCC). She disagrees that “a woman is defined by her gender, which may differ from her sex, and ... Subscribers only
Law in Action: TUPE did not apply to NHS restructure (424 words)
Dr Bicknell was employed by NHS Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group (NCCCG). Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have responsibility for ... Subscribers only
Law in Action: Redundancy doesn’t have to follow restructure (583 words)
On 1 August 2018, Ms Ballerino started working for the Racecourse Association (RCA) 40 days per year as a Financial Accountant. She was pregnant and ... Subscribers only
Law in Action: Partner could not pursue unfair dismissal (559 words)
Mr Watson was originally employed by Wallwork Nelson Johnson (WNJ) as an accountant, and then promoted to associate in 2018. He signed a new contract ... Subscribers only
Law in Action: Dismissal for vaccine refusal was fair (581 words)
Barchester Healthcare Ltd (BHL) is a large care home provider. During 2020, Covid was recorded as a cause of death of 1250 of BHL’s residents and 6 ... Subscribers only
Features
The threat of AI and algorithms: is negotiation the best defence? (2,122 words)
AI is increasingly being used for managerial functions and we can identify dangers relating to surveillance, algorithmic management, and the risk of ... Subscribers only
The right to disconnect: how does it work in Europe? (1,222 words)
In opposition, the Labour Party promised that it would introduce the “right to switch off” so that “working from home does not become homes ... Subscribers only