Workplace Report October 2025

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Pay survey 2024/25 (248 words)

The five pages devoted to the 2024/25 pay survey (pages 19–23) show that overall, the median pay deal was 3.8% for the standard increase and 4.0% ...
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Pay and prices

Pay deals average 3.2% (324 words)

Pay deals reported to LRD Payline were averaging 3.2% for the lowest paid in the three months to August 2025 – the lowest figure all year. The ...
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Payline: Median Pay Deals (124 words)

Percentage increase for those on the lowest basic rates. Statistics based on 65 deals in the past three months. ...
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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 (54 words)

Source: ONS: ASHE 2024 figures increased by average weekly rises in earnings. ...
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News

Featured Payline Deals (407 words)

With RPI still high at 4.6%, a number of this month’s settlements still deliver or approach real-terms gains, although the gap between pay and ...
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Pay: Health Unions Reject Pay Body (455 words)

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has joined 13 other health unions in calling on the Westminster government to urgently begin promised direct talks ...
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Pay: Hotel Strike Win (215 words)

Three weeks of strike action by Unite members at Village Hotel in Govan, Glasgow has ended in a win for workers, with significant improvements to pay ...
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Europe: Members Back Steel Deal to Save Jobs (239 words)

Members of IG Metall, Germany’s largest union, have backed a compromise deal in the steel industry which makes significant concessions in return ...
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Pay: Energy Regulator Dispute Heats Up (278 words)

Hundreds of PCS members working at energy regulator Ofgem's London, Glasgow and Cardiff offices are striking from 29 September until 3 October in ...
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Equality: TUC Calls for National Jobs Guarantee (338 words)

Though youth unemployment is falling according to statistics released in September and is now 11.6%, down from 13.3% in the same period last year, ...
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Organising: Health Members Win in Liverpool (191 words)

UNISON members at Liverpool Hospitals Health Branch have successfully campaigned to bring 130 soft facilities staff members back in-house at ...
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Europe: Airline Signs Deal but Not with the Big Unions (249 words)

The Dutch airline, KLM, is in dispute with the two largest unions in the Netherlands, despite signing a deal with three smaller union groupings. ...
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Equality: New Gender Pay Gap Analysis (451 words)

School leaders’ union NAHT has produced new gender pay gap analysis for schools to mark International Equal Pay Day on 18 September. Figures ...
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Pay: Dispute with Outsourcing Giant (264 words)

RMT rail union has declared a formal dispute with outsourcing giant ABM after the company failed to improve on its derisory offer to cleaners working ...
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Pay: Supermarket Pay Talks Stall (311 words)

Retail trade union Usdaw has registered a failure to agree with supermarket giant Morrisons over annual pay talks. The union is seeking to quickly ...
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Law in Action: Difference in Treatment Showed Race Discrimination (538 words)

Ms Parmar was Head of Service in Adult Social Care at Leicester City Council (LCC). She is British of Indian heritage. There were poor relations ...
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Law in Action: Tribunal Wrong to Reject Racial Harassment (633 words)

Payone Gmbh is a European online payments business. Mr Logo, who is Black British, commenced employment with them in November 2016 as a new accounts ...
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Law in Action: Failure to Consider Constructive Dismissal (587 words)

Ms Wainwright was head of installations at Cennox plc and had been employed since 2002. In August 2018 she was diagnosed with cancer and went off ...
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Law in Action: Employer Wrong on Employment Status (465 words)

A group of 422 drivers working for BCA Logistics Ltd (BCAL) and all described as “self-employed” brought claims including for holiday pay and the ...
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Law in Action: Treatment Over Hours Was Disability Discrimination (548 words)

Ms Omi was a customer service manager for Ladbrokes Betting and Gaming Ltd. She started working for them in 2016 and worked at their Watling Street ...
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Law in Action: Employer Not Liable for Age Discrimination (728 words)

Mr Fasano was employed by Reckitt Benckiser Health Ltd (RBH), a company in the Reckitt Benckiser Group (RBG), until his retirement aged 57 in June 201 ...
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Law in Action: Government Not Liable for Covid Dismissals (499 words)

Between November 2021 and March 2022, regulations required that care homes must, before allowing someone to enter their premises, obtain evidence ...
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Annual pay survey 2024-2025 (996 words)

Higher prices have posed a renewed challenge in the past year. While the double-digit inflation figures of 2022 have not been repeated, inflation has ...
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