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Fact Service February 2018
issue 8 (22/02/2018) - Increase in tribunal compensation limits ; Ditch derogation that penalises agency staff; Earnings still playing catch-up with inflation; Unemployment rises for first time in 17 months; Economic potential of older workers
Issue 7 (15/02/2018) - Workers'rights under attack post-Brexit ; Good year for factory output in 2017 ; Retail price inflation dips at start of 2018; Vice-chancellors attend their pay committees; Employers need to take neurodiversity on board
Issue 6 (08/02/2018) - Government responds to Taylor review ; Night work and its links to cancer ; Part-time pay penalty suffered by women; Unite defeat attempt to restrict picketing ; DPD courier fined for hospital visit dies ; Tesco could face huge equal pay bill ; Union voice missing on food and drink council
Issue 5 (01/02/2018) - The ups and downs of RPI inflation measure ; UK pilots agree recognition at Ryanair ; UK economic growth slower last year; Game's contractors will pay Living Wage ; Scottish law aims for gender balance; Internships are unpaid and unfair, says study; Gender pay gap - the results so far; Do share buybacks push up executive pay?
Issue 8
Increase in tribunal compensation limits (158 words)
New limits to the compensation limits payable in successful tribunal cases from April this year have been announced by the government.
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Ditch derogation that penalises agency staff (353 words)
Repealing the Swedish Derogation, which allows organisations to pay agency workers less than directly comparable employees, is vital to improving the ...
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Earnings still playing catch-up with inflation (611 words)
Earnings put on a spurt at the end of 2017 but it wasn’t enough to put an end to the squeeze on workers’ living standards.
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Unemployment rises for first time in 17 months (663 words)
Unemployment increased for the first time in 17 months at the end of last year, official figures show.
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Economic potential of older workers (194 words)
Supporting older workers to help them stay in good-quality employment could unlock huge economic potential, according to a report from the Centre for ... Open access
Issue 7
Workers’ rights under attack post-Brexit? (500 words)
Government officials have raised the prospect that hard-won workers’ rights could be reviewed by the Conservative government after Brexit in an ... Subscribers only
Good year for factory output in 2017 (162 words)
Last year, manufacturing put in its best year for three years, official figures show.
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Retail price inflation dips at start of 2018 (445 words)
Retail price inflation began 2018 at a lower rate than at the end of 2017.
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Vice-chancellors attend their pay committees (591 words)
The vast majority of UK university heads can attend the committee that sets their pay, according to a new survey from the UCU university and college ... Subscribers only
Employers need to take neurodiversity on board (306 words)
Seven out of 10 employers do not include neurodiversity — alternative ways of thinking such as autism, dyslexia and ADHD — in their people ... Subscribers only
Issue 6
Government responds to Taylor review (446 words)
The government has been timid and not gone far enough in its response to the Taylor review of modern working practices, while an employment law ... Subscribers only
Night work and its links to cancer (312 words)
A number of studies have confirmed the conclusions of older research about the increased risks of cancer for workers who carry out night or shift ... Subscribers only
Part-time pay penalty suffered by women (459 words)
Gender differences in rates of full-time and part-time paid work after childbirth are an important driver of differences in hourly wages between men ... Subscribers only
Unite defeats attempt to restrict picketing (268 words)
An employer’s “contemptible” attempt to restrict the right to picket during strike action has been overturned in the courts by the Unite ... Subscribers only
DPD courier fined for hospital visit dies (249 words)
The widow of Don Lane, from Dorset, says her late husband feared taking time off to get care for his condition because of £150 penalties imposed by ... Open access
Tesco could face huge equal pay bill (374 words)
Supermarket giant Tesco is facing what could be the largest equal pay challenge in UK history after law firm Leigh Day announced legal proceedings ... Subscribers only
Union voice missing on food and drink council (263 words)
The GMB general union has demanded a workers’ voice on the Food and Drink Council. Without a union voice the council risks becoming an exclusive ... Subscribers only
Issue 5
The up and downs of RPI inflation measure (540 words)
The contentious issue of the RPI measure of inflation has been in the news with BT losing out in the courts and the Bank of England rubbishing the ... Subscribers only
UK pilots agree recognition at Ryanair (223 words)
The British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) and Ryanair have concluded and signed a voluntary trade union recognition agreement. This follows ... Open access
UK economic growth slower last year (212 words)
The economy grew last year, but at a slower rate than 2016, preliminary figures suggest.
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Game's contractors will pay Living Wage (154 words)
Birmingham City Council has confirmed that any contractors hired to deliver works or services for the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be paid the ... Open access
Scottish law aims for gender balance (181 words)
Scotland has become the first country in the UK with a statutory gender representation objective for public boards.
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Internships are unpaid and unfair, study finds (405 words)
Unpaid internships, combined with rising living costs, are shutting less-advantaged youngsters out of many careers, according to a study from social ... Subscribers only
Gender pay gap — the results so far (342 words)
In an analysis of the data from the first 570 organisations to publish their gender pay gaps, People Management, the magazine of the CIPD HR ... Subscribers only
Do share buybacks push up executive pay? (178 words)
New research into whether some companies are repurchasing their own shares to artificially inflate executive pay has been announced by the ... Open access