Pay and prices

Pay and prices (443 words)

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures ...

Features

Pay deals (793 words)

Agreement % increase hours holidays date number ...

Update on transfer law (665 words)

Cases continue to reach the courts over what amounts to a business transfer and when the protection available under the transfer regulations (TUPE) applies. ...

Signing away rights (48 words)

The House of Lords has confirmed that employees cannot be taken to have signed away rights, in "full and final settlement", where they were ...

Meaning of employee (184 words)

Individuals must be "employees" working under a contract of employment in order to benefit from the protection of most statutory rights. ...

Minimum wage (48 words)

An employer can include whatever is paid as an attendance allowance within the calculation of hourly pay in making up the national minimum wage. ...

Witness orders (33 words)

Although they should exercise their powers sparingly, employment tribunals have an unequivocal and unrestricted power to call witnesses and to require them to give ...

Certification Officer appointed (60 words)

David Cockburn, a leading employment lawyer, has been appointed to the role of Certification Officer - the government-appointed official responsible for handling complaints against ...

Tribunal time limits (123 words)

There are time limits for all applications to tribunals. The EAT has held that, in a claim taken by an expelled union member, the ...

Unions keep up the pace on leave for working parents (6849 words)

The government has been considering a range of measures to help working parents balance the demands of work and family life. Unions welcomed measures ...

South East pay pressures mount (691 words)

The issue of regional pay, and in particular the pressure on pay and earnings levels in the South East of England, is becoming an ...

Survey finds racism at work is still widespread (279 words)

One third of black and Asian members of the public had experienced racism at work, according to a survey carried out for the Commission ...

Equal Opportunities Commission launches maternity rights website (108 words)

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has launched a website providing advice and information on pregnancy and maternity rights at work. Many women are unfairly ...

Occupational Exposure Limits (54 words)

Take part in the latest HSE survey on the use of Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs), by logging on to the interactive questionnaire on their ...

Hotline reveals call-centre workers' main concerns (231 words)

Excessive monitoring by supervisors and not being allowed to take adequate rest breaks, were the top two concerns of call centre workers contacting the ...

Advertising campaign pushes construction safety (177 words)

Building workers are being urged to make safety their priority in an advertising campaign featuring in national newspapers by the Health and Safety Executive ...

Simpler incident-reporting system takes effect (283 words)

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a new incident-reporting service intended to simplify the procedure for reporting accidents and diseases caused by ...

Safety rep wins time off tribunal case (293 words)

A safety rep, backed by the PCS public and commercial services union, has won an employment tribunal case over her right to time off ...

Prison Officers get pay review body (375 words)

The long-awaited extension of the pay review body system to prison staff has now been agreed. The new body will make its first recommendation ...

Paid time off for medical screening at Jaeger Tailoring (154 words)

As part of a pay deal that increased earnings by 2.5% from 1 April, paid time off for medical screening for hourly paid and ...

2.65% for Bowyers food workers (123 words)

A pay rise of 2.65%, with 3% on shift rates has been agreed for production workers at Pork Farms Bowyers in Trowbridge. The junior ...

6% on shift premia at TRW Automotive (154 words)

A new two year deal for staff at the Wednesbury plant came into effect from 1 February 2001 and will run until 31 January ...

Report urges further reform as stakeholder pensions launched (450 words)

Employers should be required to contribute to the new stakeholder pension. This is one of the key demands made in a new report from ...

Equal Opportunities Commission calls for equal annuity rates (159 words)

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) is calling on the government to amend the Sex Discrimination Act to "make sex-based actuarial factors unlawful". ...

Michelin agrees 35-hour week (253 words)

Michelin, the French tyre-maker has concluded an agreement on the introduction of a 35-hour week for its 27,000 employees. The company is one of ...

Above-inflation settlements for Dutch building and social workers (357 words)

Two important groups of workers in the Netherlands have reached agreement on settlements which provide them both with increases above inflation. ...

Lufthansa success for new union (181 words)

Germany's newest and biggest union Ver.di has reached agreement on an above-inflation increase for 55,000 employees at the German airline Lufthansa. The 14-month deal, ...