Workplace Report November 2024

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Editor's Note: Pay may have overtaken inflation, but bumps lie ahead (246 words)

We have devoted seven pages to the 2023/4 pay survey (pages 17-23) and, as well as an overview of both private and public sector pay and conditions, ...
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Pay and prices

Pay pressure drops off as CPI inflation goes below 2% (332 words)

Deals reported to Payline are averaging 4.0% for both the standard increase and lowest-paid workers. The median pay rise was higher in the public ...
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Payline: median pay deals (122 words)

Percentage increase for those on the lowest basic rates, calculated on a 3-monthly basis. ...
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Average weekly earnings (110 words)

Source: ONS average weekly earnings monthly survey data ...
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Average weekly pay by occupational group (50 words)

Source: ONS: ASHE 2023 figures increased by average weekly rises in earnings ...
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News

Featured Payline deals (403 words)

As well as the public sector pay awards that were finalised this month, several strong private sector pay deals have been agreed. Workers in ...
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Pay: Unions welcome Employment Rights Bill as 'step forward' (346 words)

The Employment Rights Bill has passed its second reading in Parliament, marking the first stage of the implementation of the Plan to Make Work Pay. ...
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Equality: Maternity pay too little (276 words)

Recent research from Pregnant Then Screwed, and Women in Data has found that four in 10 mothers took just 12 weeks or less following the birth of ...
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Pay: Disability pay gap at 12.7% (352 words)

The disability pay gap remained broadly stable at 12.7%, according to new figures published by the ONS. This is equivalent to a difference in average ...
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Europe: Deadline looms on collective bargaining (381 words)

This month, by 15 November, EU member states must have introduced national legislation implementing the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive passed in 202 ...
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Pay: Nurses reject 5.5% pay award (472 words)

RCN members working for the NHS in England have voted to reject the 2024-25 pay award from the UK government. A record 145,000 eligible members cast ...
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Europe: Companies required to have LGBT equality plans (157 words)

Legislation came into force last month requiring all companies in Spain with more than 50 employees to have LGBT equality plans in place within the ...
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Employment Law (506 words)

In 2007, Tesco restructured its distribution centres, closing some and opening new ones. It negotiated a collective agreement with the recognised ...
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Employment Law (580 words)

Ms Hundal started working for South Gloucestershire Council as an agency social worker on 8 July 2019. Initially this was a fixed term engagement ...
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Employment Law (531 words)

Mr Moon was employed by law firm Slater & Gordon as a costs resolution manager at their Cardiff office. ...
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Employment Law (596 words)

Following a restructure by British Airways (BA) in 2020, 49 members of cabin crew made employment tribunal (ET) claims for indirect race and/or sex ...
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Employment Law (529 words)

Ms Treadwell was employed by Barton Turns Development Ltd (BTD) as an events manager from January 2022 until her dismissal by one of BTD’s ...
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Employment Law (636 words)

Ms Thomas worked for Brandpath UK Ltd from 2013 as a purchase ledger clerk. In May 2016, there was an altercation between her and a colleague, Mr ...
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Employment Law (551 words)

Mr Kikwera-Akaka was a sales assistant in the Salvation Army (SA) charity shop in Beckenham. His employment began in 2016. ...
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Employment Law (629 words)

Mr Thomas was engaged through an employment agency to work for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust from April to July 2018. His ...
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Features

Workers may have won big in 2023-24, but battle for pay restoration continues (5,561 words)

During the year workers continued to demand larger pay rises in response to the high cost of living. Although down on last year’s peak, the median ...
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