![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201312.jpg)  | December 2013 | 
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| Issue 50 (19/12/2013) - Inflation steady;  Low average earnings growth hits workers;  Unemployment posts big autumn fall;  Auto-enroling in
Issue 49 (12/12/2013) - Autumn Statement;  Apprentices - gender and race;  Number of working people in poverty;  Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2013
Issue 48 (05/12/2013) - Failures over minimum wage compliance;  Whistleblowing needs code of practice;  'Stabbed in the back';  UK tops table of high earners in banking;  Scandal of deaths from winter cold; 'Successful'  Tory MP justifies second job;  Pension's watchdog consults over schemes
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201311.jpg)  | November 2013 | 
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| Issue 47 (28/11/2013) - Are zero-hours contracts a good thing?   Business R&D in 2012;  Growth in economy confirmed;  Not so amazin' Amazon;  UK pension rank;  Benefit of working in a unionised workplace
Issue 46 (21/11/2013) - Economic forecasts;  Boardroom fat cats up to old tricks on pay;  UK is 'scrooge of Europe' over parents;  Waiting for recovery in workers' pay;  Scotland and Wales take action over blacklisting;  Cameron goes for more union bashing;  Correction 
Issue 45 (14/11/2013) - No joy in average earnings data;  Living Wage rises;  Unemployment down;  Inflation falls sharply;  Hidden worth of golden goodbyes
 Issue 44 (07/11/2013) - Golden goodbyes;  Joint working agreement on racism;  Youth workers — Is this the only way Essex?;   Factory output up in Northern Ireland;   Health and safety in 2012-13;   Inheritance in Britain — them that has, gets;   Childcare commitments of older parents[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201310.jpg)  | October 2013 | 
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| Issue 43 (30/10/2013) - Acas amends advice about companions; Third-party harassment rule repealed;  'Little to boast about' as economy improves;  UK losing out on green growth and jobs;  Living Wage to be paid at Welsh council;  Rights when adverse weather hits work;  Seven in 10 need to supplement pension;  Campaign targets modern-day slavery
Issue 42 (24/10/2013) - Workers on the board;  UK in right state, says Milburn;  Sexual harassment still rife at work;  Gender gap in pensions;  'Tragic day for the UK'
Issue 41 (17/10/2013) - No let up in inflation;  Average earnings' growth stagnates;  Jobs not shares at Royal Mail;  Unemployment down below 2.5 million;  Compensation for blacklisted workers?
Issue 40 - 10/10/2013 - Women's rise in labour market over 40 years;  Own up, clean up, pay up over blacklisting;  Apprentices' pay;   Factory output and production rise;  Care workers lose out over travel time;  Drawdown of pensions 
Issue 39 (03/10/2013) - Share-owning democracy dream — just that;  Days of Action;  Balance of payments deficit shrinks; October brings few legislation changes;  NHS pay submissions;  UK growth confirmed;  Success for Hovis strikers;  Settlements stuck at 2.5% for six months[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201309.jpg)  | September 2013 | 
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| Issue 38 (26/09/13) - Economic outlook;  Threat to facility time in schools;  Golden goodbyes;  UNISON takes on payday lenders;  Reforms aim to tackle weaknesses in pensions;   Bedroom tax woes;  Minimum wage rises;  More City fat cat consultants
Issue 37 (19/09/13) -  RPI inflation rate up, CPI inflation down;  Appeal allowed over landmark ruling;  Initiatives to combat homophobia;  Take-home pay fillip for service sector;  A quieter year for shareholder revolts;  Fat cat consultants;  Living Wage claim for academy support staff
Issue 36 (12/09/13) - Average weekly earnings gloom;   Platinum-plated pensions for fat cats;  Government attack on TUPE transfers;  Zero-hours contracts in higher education;  Unemployment dips below 2.5 million
Issue 35 (05/09/13) - PCS success over check off challenge;  Complaint over temps' pay goes to Europe;   Million more earning less than Living Wage;  HSE nets £2.7 million from fee scheme;  Mergers and takeovers;   Shares for employment rights scheme starts;  Shares for employment rights scheme starts;  Crossrail worker reinstated[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201308.jpg)  | August 2013 | 
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| Issue 34 (29/08/2013) - Economy in slightly better shape, but...;  Naming and shaming minimum wage cheats;  Big losers in coalition's pension reforms;  Bakers take action over zero hours;  Working mothers face discrimination;  Remploy to close three furniture factories
Issue 33 (22/08/2013) - Some more highly paid charity workers;  Unite to launch credit union network;   Equality in pay and benefits;  Zero-hours contract guidance from Acas;  Outlook for economy;  Increase in bonus payments in 2012-13
Issue 32 (15/08/2013) - Average weekly earnings in slump;   Small fall in unemployment;  Government blocks Wales over farm wage; Dip in inflation;  Northern Ireland employment law
Issue 31 (08/08/2013) - More workers on zero-hours contracts;  No interest rate rises until joblessness falls;  New mums go back to flexi- or part-time work;  More employment law misery from Tories;  Rise in factory output;  Apprenticeship scheme's inequalities;  Managing for health and safety advice 
Issue 30 (01/08/2013) - Tribunal fees challenge;  Youth scheme failing;  Settlements up to 2.7%;  Minimum  wage no longer fit for purpose;  Cable may appeal over consultation ruling;  Zero-hours contracts;  Bedroom tax challenge;  Myth of compensation culture dispelled [More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201307.jpg)  | July 2013 | 
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| Issue 29 (25/07/2013) - New price for justice - tribunal fees;   Scheme to help disabled people into work;  Union political funds;  UK economy gathers pace with 0.6% growth;  Static contractual  obligations win out;  Samaritans try to derecognise Unite;  UK's current trading position worsens;  Employment law changes take effect
Issue 28 (18/07/2013) - Inflation up again;  Inconvenient home truths for coalition;  No joy in earnings data;  Fall in unemployment;  Workplace temperature
Issue 27 (11/07/2013) - Cable confirms sale of family silver;  Rules on NEST to be eased by 2017;  Rise in factory output;  Executive pensions rise in real terms;   Inequality narrows - but not for long;  Fuel poverty cut at stroke of pen;  Promotion just a pipe dream for part-timers
Issue 26 (04/07/2013) -  148 too many deaths in the workplace; Zero-hours contracts;   TUC shows how to
 close the wage gap;  Equal pay victory;  Public sector staff targeted by Osborne; BBC pay-offs slated[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201306.jpg)  | June 2013 | 
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| Issue 25 (27/06/2013) - Action needed on workplace equality;  High cost of child poverty in Britain;   Emphatic 'No' to Royal Mail sell-off;  New Acas Code on settlement agreements;  Review of banking urges change for good;   New whistleblowing rules introduced 
Issue 24 (20/06/13) - Inflation back over 3%;  More children growing up in poverty;  Government looks into zero-hours contracts;  More councils paying Living Wage;  Older workers at record level;   Invest more in young people; nflation hitting workers' pay packets;  New mums lose jobs
Issue 23 (13/06/13) - Annual City bonuses distort earnings figures;  Dip in unemployment;  Fillip for factory output;  Taxpayer bails out C2C;  Right to strike;  Gissa pay rise;  Shame of child slavery
Issue 22 (06/06/2013) - Rise in the number of union members;  Retirement poser;  Takeover activity on downward trend;  The income-divide in recession and future;   Blacklisting claims go to High Court;   National Minimum Wage crackdown[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201305.jpg)  | May 2013 | 
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| Issue 21 (30/05/2013) - Court rejects religious discrimination claims;  Growth for economy;  Payday lenders' failings exposed;  Equal pay consultation;  More low-paid will get state pension;  Pay rises average 2.8%;  'Yes' to political fund;  Facts not spin
Issue 20 (23/05/2013) - Sharp fall in inflation;  Stressed at work;  Economy long way from recovery?;  Assessment procedure for benefit unfair;  Pension regulator's three-year plan;   Where to get a legal helping hand;   Work programme failures over 'parking'
Issue 19 (16/05/2013) - Shortfall of jobs for younger workers;  Factory output down;   Rise of 15,000 in number of unemployed;  FTSE firms' foothold in tax havens;  More pain with negative earnings growth;  The things they say
Issue 18 (09/05/2013) - Presenteeism on rise;  TUC sets out priorities;  Pay settlements;  Credit unions offer alternative to sharks;  Bullying in workplace;  Review of Health and Safety Executive;  Local elections 2013
Issue 17 (02/05/2013) -  Boost for jobs in manufacturing;  UK skirts round triple-dip recession;  Town Hall Poor List;  Apprentices needed to build workforce;  Threats to two more pension schemes;  Women lose out in changing labour market;  Call for ban on zero-hours contracts[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201304.jpg)  | April 2013 | 
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| Issue 16 (25/04/2013) - Agricultural Wages Board is axed;  Pension? Pass the cream crackers;  Parliamentary ping-pong over 'rights for shares';  Nationalised rail wins out over privately-run;  A sorry apology from assessors Atos;  McCluskey re-elected;  Top firms should come clean on well-being;  Economic outlook is gloomy this year
Issue 15 (18/04/2013) -  Blacklisting 'morally indefensible';  Unemployment higher than in 2010;   Small rise in National Minimum Wage;  No joy in average earnings figures; RPI inflation rises
Issue 14 (11/04/2013) - 'Flawed' welfare reforms hit disabled;   Acas offers advice on redundancies;  Minimum wage cheats;  A mixed start to the new tax year;   Economy saw growth last year;  Boardroom pay;  Barnado's charity closes pension scheme;  Progress stalls on women in boardroom
Issue 13 (04/04/2013) - Employment changes come into effect;  Balance of payments;  Stealth tax;  Employers want retirement age back;  Shrinking economy;  Inflation eats away at pay rises;  Zero-hours contracts on the rise;  Even more employment tribunal reforms?  Political donations[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201303.jpg)  | March 2013 | 
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| Issue 12 (28/03/2013) - Fight for facility time;  Work-related stress;  UK unprepared for ageing population;   Banking millionaires, but low-paid miss out;  Union movement and company governance;  Low pay adviser gets thumb up;   Make equality count in public procurement;  Reject no-strike plan 
Issue 11 (21/03/2013) - Budget 2013;  Slide in average earnings growth;  No joy for Osborne on  unemployment;  RPI inflation remains above 3%
Issue 10 (14/03/2013) - Real wage growth is missing in the UK;  Gloomy start to year for manufacturing;  Changes to inflation's basket of goods;  Take-home pay index shows sluggish growth;  Recognition successes;  Jobs gap needs to close;  Big pay divide splits Barclays workers;  Acas consults on flexible working
Issue 9 (07/03/13) - Pickles attacks facility time and check-off;  Homecare staff lose out;  Mixed messages from pay settlements;  Parental leaves increases to 18 weeks;  Police won't be taking industrial action;  From top to bottom — a fairer way to pay;  Childcare now in 'luxury bracket'[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201302.jpg)  | February 2013 | 
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| Issue 8 (28/02/2013) - Latest developments in blacklisting of activists;  Pay settlements show rise at start of 2013;  Commission guidance on religious belief;  Surprise boost to UK economy in 2012;  Child poverty hotspots mapped by campaign;  Greater protection for whistleblowers
Issue 7 (21/02/2013) - Unemployment down at end of year;  No joy for workers on average earnings;   Pro-active inspections cut hospital bugs;  Coalition amends law over political belief;  Calls to bring payday lenders to book
Issue 6 (14/02/2013) - RPI inflation on rise in January;   Myth of high pay to keep executives;  National pay to go in England's NHS;  Factory output down;  Oil and gas pay;  Union recognition law;  No cap on NEST
Issue 5 (07/02/2013) - Youth unemployment in the UK and abroad;  Drug testing at work;  Councils will face funding difficulties;  Increase in limits to tribunal awards;  Older workforce brings benefits;  Childcare ratios to increase in reform;  It's charity, but not as we know it[More ...] | 
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![[cover image]](images/issue/FS201301.jpg)  | January 2013 | 
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| Issue 4 (31/01/2013) - Final salary scheme closures accelerate;  Apprenticeships - government response;  Fears over triple-dip recession for UK;  Pay rises treading water at 2.1%;  Shrewsbury 24 - sign up for justice;  European unions must fight Cameron;  Pay freeze for bosses, pay cut for staff
Issue 3 (24/01/2013) - Blacklisting scandal gets worse;  Average earnings;  Unemployment down;  Poor careers  advice - a perennial problem;   Coalition ups attack on workers' rights;  Tribunal claims rise
Issue 2 (17/01/2013) - Factory output down;  RPI inflation rebounds at end of year;  Fall in real value of workers' earnings;  Guidance on public sector equality duty;  European court rules on discrimination;  Traineeships proposed by coalition;  Pay tensions in 2013
Issue 1 (10/01/2013) - No change to inflation calculation;  Consultation period for redundancies cut;  Balance of payments deficit shrinks;    Employers may cut pension contributions;  Inflation dips to 3%;  Last year was bad one for NHS in England;  Priorities for 2013[More ...] |