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Fact Service January 2012
Issue 4 (26/01/2012) Union reps add value to British economy; No movement in pay settlements end 2011; Fudge on executive pay; Disgrace as worker loses blacklisting case; Work programme slated; Bad news for economy; Benefit cap based on myths, says campaign
Issue 3 (19/01/2012) Shameful map of poverty in the UK; Inflation on downward path for 2012?; What's in store for the economy in 2012?; Average earnings growth down again; Unemployment in UK rises ever higher
Issue 2 (12/01/2012) Unpaid overtime; Action pledged by PM on pay?; Balance of payments; End of an era with Shell pension closure; PFI — more to do over cost concerns; Skill shortages only part of the problem; Regional pay
Issue 1 (05/01/2012) - New workplace-related benefit levels announced; Government u-turns on tax relief for taxis; Employment restrictions extended; Employees unhappy over pay; Public sector pensions; Private sector pensions; Attack on health and safety challenged
Issue 4
Union reps add value to British economy (510 words)
The presence of unions in workplaces could be saving employers in the private and public sectors as much as £701 million a year or £2 ...
Subscribers only
No movement in pay settlements end 2011 (137 words)
Pay settlement figures from the Labour Research Department’s Payline database show that, in the three months to December, the average was ...
Open access
Fudge on executive pay (548 words)
Business secretary Vince Cable has come in for criticism from unions for rejecting calls to put employees at the heart of proposals to tackle ... Subscribers only
Disgrace as worker loses blacklisting case (212 words)
Agency workers have no legal protection against blacklisting by multinational firms, construction worker and trade unionist Dave Smith claimed after ... Open access
Work programme slated (261 words)
The government’s projected figures for its Work Programme, the flagship scheme aimed at getting the long-term unemployed into work, are ... Subscribers only
Bad news for economy (210 words)
The UK economy shrank at the end of last year. The bad news was published soon after the Bank of England and ILO warned of difficulties ahead. ... Open access
Benefit cap based on myths, says campaign (260 words)
Six myths surrounding the coalition government’s cap on benefits have been published by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG). ... Subscribers only
Issue 3
Shameful map of child poverty in UK (301 words)
New figures that provide a child poverty map of the whole of the UK have been published by the Campaign to End Child Poverty. The figures are broken ... Subscribers only
Inflation on downward path for 2012? (455 words)
Inflation fell on both the main measures, due to lower fuel prices and cheaper clothing. ... Subscribers only
What’s in store for the economy in 2012? (188 words)
The New Year sees a wide divergence of views as to where the economy is heading this year. That is, if the forecasts from the 40 or so institutions ... Open access
Average earnings growth down again (534 words)
Average earnings growth continues to bump along the bottom. Average weekly earnings, including bonuses, for the whole economy posted an annual rise ... Subscribers only
Unemployment in UK rises ever higher (746 words)
Unemployment rose on both official counts, according to official figures. ... Subscribers only
Issue 2
Unpaid overtime (637 words)
The two billion hours of unpaid overtime worked last year would be enough to create over a million extra full-time jobs, the TUC has said. ... Subscribers only
Action pledged by PM on boardroom pay? (329 words)
Prime minister David Cameron has pledged to put shareholders at the forefront of the battle on executive pay. But it may not be enough to end ... Subscribers only
Balance of payments (281 words)
The UK’s current account deficit widened to a record high. In the third quarter of 2011 it was £15.2 billion against a revised figure of ... Subscribers only
End of era with Shell pension closure (333 words)
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is facing union anger as it has become the last of the top FTSE 100 companies to close its final salary pension scheme ... Subscribers only
PFI — more to do over cost concerns (237 words)
The government has not done enough to address concerns that the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is being used to keep the cost of major ... Open access
Skills shortages only part of problem (289 words)
In the wake of the chancellor’s plans to make the skills system more responsive to employers, a report published by The Work Foundation ... Subscribers only
Regional pay (348 words)
A Treasury minister has confirmed that the government has started the procedure for introducing regional pay rates in the public sector. Chloe ... Subscribers only
Issue 1
New workplace-related benefit levels announced (381 words)
The new levels at which leave for working parents, sick pay and tribunal awards are paid have been announced. ... Subscribers only
Government u-turns on tax relief for taxis (368 words)
The government has backtracked on its decision to scrap tax relief for late night taxis — a decision which would have affected businesses ... Subscribers only
Employment restrictions extended (398 words)
The government is extending employment restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian nationals, while making it easier for employers to check individuals ... Subscribers only
Employees unhappy over pay (178 words)
A survey by the HR professional body the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), has found that 48% of people saw their pay frozen ... Open access
Public sector pensions (470 words)
Much reporting on the dispute over public sector pensions has suggested that civil service union PCS is alone in rejecting the government’s ... Subscribers only
Private sector pensions (325 words)
A new report from the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) says that nine out of 10 private sector defined benefit schemes are now closed to ... Subscribers only
Attack on health and safety challenged (261 words)
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has renewed its opposition to the European Commission’s proposed weakening of health and safety ... Subscribers only