Fact Service May 2019

Issue 22 (30/05/19) - Forty executives share £113m in remuneration; Employers must publish disability pay gap; Industrial stoppages at a low level in 2018; Parliament restoration - ban blacklist firms; Avoid sun damage and prevent cancer

Issue 21 (23/05/19) - Named and shamed over gender pay; Homeworking on rise and more want it; RPI inflation fuelled by energy and petrol rises; LGBT people suffer harassment at work; Blacklisted trade union members win compo

Issue 20 (16/05/19) - TUC checklist on mental health; Unemployment rate for women hits record low; Majority feel stressed or anxious about work; Average earnings growth dips sharply

Issue 19 (09/05/19) - Forty executives share £82.5m in remuneration; Shareholders fail to flex their muscle over pay; Epilepsy - an uncomfortable truth; Care workers strike over pay; Employers urged to sign disability pledge

Issue 18 (02/05/19) - Average package of £1.92 million for 40 directors; AI and automation will have mixed impact; Sorry state of the nation: privilege gap is wide; Increase in those paid below minimum wage

Issue 22

Forty executives share £113m in remuneration 
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Millions of people take part in the National Lottery every week. However, some top executives effectively win the lottery every year without parting ...
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Employers must publish disability pay gap
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The government must make it compulsory for employers to publish their disability pay gaps, the TUC said at its annual disabled workers’ ...
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Industrial stoppages at a low level in 2018
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There were 273,000 working days lost due to labour disputes, the sixth-lowest annual total since records began in 1891, according to the Office for ...
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Parliament restoration — ban blacklist firms
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A shadow cabinet minister has called for construction firms that have been involved in blacklisting to be banned from bidding for work on the £4 ...
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Avoid sun damage and prevent cancer
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The number of people in the UK diagnosed with or dying from the deadliest form of skin cancer because of sun exposure at work is revealed in a new ...
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Issue 21

Named and shamed over gender pay
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Forty seven organisations that have failed to report their latest gender pay gap following the March and April deadlines have been named and shamed ...
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Homeworking on the rise and more want it
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There are 374,000 more employees working from home than 10 years ago, a new TUC analysis marking Work Wise UK’s National Work from Home Day shows. ...
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RPI inflation fuelled by energy and petrol rises
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Higher energy bills and dearer petrol contributed to a significant rise in retail price inflation, official figures show.
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LGBT people suffer harassment at work
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Nearly seven in 10 lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people report being sexually harassed at work, according to new research published by the ...
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Blacklisted trade union members win compo
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Fifty three trade union members have won compensation totalling £1.9 million after major construction firms admitted that they had been unlawfully ...
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Issue 20

TUC checklist on mental health
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As part of mental health awareness week, the TUC has produced a checklist of five ways to improve mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
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Unemployment rate for women hits record low 
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The unemployment rate for women fell to a record low, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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Majority feel stressed or anxious about work
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Two-thirds of workers (66%) have felt stressed or anxious about work over the past year, a new report from workplace experts Acas reveals.
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Average earnings growth dips sharply 
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The labour market may be tight with unemployment down again, but that fact is not reflected in official earnings data, which show a fall in ...
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Issue 19

Forty executives share £82.5m in remuneration
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With the company reporting season in full flow, the number of the £1 million-a-year or more remuneration packages given to top executives at FTSE 350 ...
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Shareholders fail to flex their muscle over pay
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Measures introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government giving shareholders the power to tackle excessive executive pay have ...
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Epilepsy - an uncomfortable truth
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People with epilepsy still face discrimination at work. That is is the uncomfortable finding of an Institute of Employment Studies (IES) study. 
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Care workers strike over pay
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Over 650 members of the public service union UNISON employed by the care group Alternative Futures Group (AFG) have been on strike over cuts to their ...
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Employers urged to sign disability pledge
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Businesses need to take urgent action and pledge to tackle the UK’s disability employment crisis.
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Issue 18

Average package of £1.92m for 40 directors
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A further 40 top executives whose remuneration package last year came to over £1 million feature in the table on page 70.
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AI and automation will have mixed impact 
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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will have a widespread but mixed impact on jobs, new research shows. 
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Sorry state of the nation: privilege gap is wide
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Inequality is now entrenched in Britain from birth to work, and the government needs to take urgent action to help close the privilege gap, says the ...
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Increase in those paid below minimum wage
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In April 2018, 439,000 people were paid less than the hourly statutory minimum wage, a new report from the Low Pay Commission (LPC) finds. 
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