Fact Service November 2018

Issue 48 (29/11/2018) - Use fringe benefits to help lower earners; Large employers should report on disability
; Five million got Living Wage increase; Do as I say not as I do; UK bottom of real-wage growth league

; New statutory rates for parents in work; Back our domestic abuse charter - GMB

Issue 47 (22/11/2018) - Factory output growth feeds into UK economy


; Unite calls for toilet dignity in workplace; Scope of pay reports should be widened

; A nice little earner for a bookmaker
; Employers should pay EU fees for staff; Firm wings its way to employee ownership

Issue 46 (15/11/2018 - GMB win as Addison Lee loses appeal; Inflation holds steady despite dearer petrol
; Data shows surprise rise in unemployment

; Inflation continues to eat away at earnings

Issue 45 (08/11/2018) - Vital statistics on health and safety


; Possibility of tribunal fees rears ugly head; Real Living Wage rises by at least 2.9%; Children priced out of musical education
; Part-time cabin crew member wins pay case

; TUC guide on dangers of diesel exhaust

Issue 44 (01/11/2018) - TUC says shift workers need more protection


; Annual survey of hours and earnings; Rise in minimum wage rates from April 2019


; Budget 2018

Issue 48

Use fringe benefits to help lower earners
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Businesses should make better use of their employee benefits to support low earners, according to a report by the Work Foundation. 
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Large employers should report on disability 
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A voluntary reporting framework has been 
developed by the government in partnership with leading businesses and third sector organisations to ...
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Five million got Living Wage increase
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The increase last April in the National Living Wage (NLW) raised the pay of up to five million workers, according to the Low Pay Commission’s 2018 ...
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Do as I say not as I do
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The PCS public and commercial services union is up in arms at the way its members at the Highways England are being treated compared with top ...
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UK bottom of real-wage growth league 
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Workers in Britain have had the weakest real wage growth among the most advanced nations in the G20, according to the United Nations agency, the ...
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New statutory rates for parents in work
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Proposed rates for Statutory Maternity Pay, Paternity Pay, Shared Parental Pay, Adoption Pay and Sick Pay from April 2019 are among the many revised ...
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Back our domestic abuse charter — GMB
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The GMB general union has called on employers to sign up to its Work to stop domestic violence charter.
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Issue 47

Factory output growth feeds into UK economy
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Manufacturing output has continued to grow, latest official figures show.
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Unite calls for toilet dignity in workplace
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Thousands of workers are being denied toilet dignity in the workplace, says the Unite general union.
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Scope of pay reports should be widened
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A left-of-centre think tank, the IPPR, has added its voice to the calls for organisations to disclose more on different pay gaps.
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A nice little earner for a bookmaker
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Denise Coates, the multibillionaire founder and boss of the gambling firm Bet365, paid herself over £220 million last year in a record-breaking pay ...
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Employers should to pay EU fees for staff 
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Employers are being urged to pay the £65 fee for their staff who are citizens of other EU countries and who apply for “settled status” to stay ...
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Firm wings its way to employee ownership
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A firm founded in 2005 by two former RAF pilots is now majority-owned by its employees.
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Issue 46

GMB win as Addison Lee loses appeal
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Private hire and courier firm Addison Lee has lost its claim at the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that its drivers are self-employed. 
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Inflation holds steady despite dearer petrol
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Dearer petrol offset by cheaper food helped steady the inflation rate last month, official figures show.
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Data shows surprise rise in unemployment 
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Unemployment rose unexpectedly, latest official figures show.
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Inflation continues to eat away at earnings
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Earnings growth was back under 3.0% in September, official figures show.
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Issue 45

Vital statistics on health and safety
 (556 words)

The overall number of workers fatally injured at work in Great Britain increased last year.
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Possibility of tribunal fees rears ugly head
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Unions will have to be on their mettle. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed it may reintroduce fees for employment tribunal claims, insisting ...
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Real Living Wage rises by at least 2.9% 
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At least 180,000 people that work for real Living Wage employers across the country are set for a pay rise as the new Living Wage rates were ...
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Children priced out of musical education
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The Musicians’ Union is calling on government to review its offering of music education in schools as it says lower income families are priced out ...
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Part-time cabin crew member wins pay case
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A member of British Airways (BA) cabin crew received less favourable treatment over her pay than a full-timer.
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TUC guide on dangers of diesel exhaust
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A guide to diesel exhaust that highlights the practical and simple steps that an employer can take to protect their workers has been published by the ...
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Issue 44

TUC says shift workers need more protection 
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Workers who regularly work through the nights deserve greater protection, says, the TUC.
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Annual survey of hours and earnings 2018
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Headline figures show that full-time average weekly earnings increased nominally and in real-terms, but the gender breakdown of the figures show a ...
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Rise in minimum wage rates from April 2019
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Recommendations from the Low Pay Commission on new rates for the statutory minimum wages from next April have been accepted by the government.
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Budget 2018
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Chancellor Philip Hammond presented his third Budget to the House of Commons. According to “Feel good” Phil, “The era of austerity is finally ...
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