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Pay deals in brief (1270 words)

Agreement % increase hours holidays ...

Pay & prices (457 words)

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures ...

Dismissal law developments (1308 words)

Nearly 50,000 applicants registered claims of unfair dismissal in the last year, the highest number ever. Bargaining Report looks at legal developments in this ...

European works councils (136 words)

Workers in companies based in two or more European Union states have the right to request the establishment of a European works council (EWC). ...

Trade union protection (159 words)

The Court of Appeal has held that an employer, who withheld a pay rise from a recently promoted employee until such time as she ...

Holiday pay rights (95 words)

The ECJ has ruled that temporary workers have the right to accrue paid holidays while working and that UK law which currently excludes those ...

Pay in lieu of holidays (152 words)

Under the Working Time Regulations workers cannot agree to be paid in lieu of taking their minimum holiday entitlement (four weeks in the year ...

Equal pay update (350 words)

Following last month's equal pay survey Bargaining Report has received information on some additional cases. ...

Negotiating pensions (125 words)

The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) has said that where a collective agreement is imposed on the parties after a formal award of statutory recognition, ...

Tribunal time limits (96 words)

The EAT has held that the three-month time limit for presenting a claim over an underpayment of wages runs from the date the payment ...

Union learning reps show their potential (2278 words)

The re-election of a Labour government last month means there will be a further expansion of union activity in workplace learning. The first stage ...

Gender audits may be made compulsory (128 words)

Companies may be required to publish details of how female workers' conditions compare with that of men, under plans being drawn up by Denise ...

Survey reveals wide variation in disability charities' employment of disabled workers (196 words)

Some charities do not appear to be practising what they preach when it comes to employing disabled staff, according to a recent survey by ...

Government sets up flexible working taskforce (157 words)

The government has set up a Work and Parent Taskforce to look into giving working parents the right to ask to work flexibly. ...

Guidance highlights pitfalls in accident investigations (263 words)

As part of its contribution to European Health and safety week in October the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has published ...

Research reveals employers' view of manual handling regulations (357 words)

The HSE has published new research into the workings of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations that reveals that employers think they have had a ...

New guides on stress (222 words)

The GMB general union has published a new guide on stress for safety reps which puts forward a six-step approach that safety reps should ...

Teachers' unions agree deal on cover (234 words)

A new agreement between the National Employers Organisation for School Teachers and the teaching unions addresses the issue of excessive workloads by setting guidelines ...

Survey shows small employers risk missing stakeholder deadline (406 words)

With only three months to go before the October stakeholder deadline for employers, a recent survey reveals that many small employers have yet to ...

French and Dutch increase minimum wage (347 words)

Minimum wage rates in France and the Netherlands went up last month - in both cases by more than the rate of inflation. ...

Agreement in German retail trade (59 words)

German retail workers have reached a series of regional agreements each providing a 2.7% increase for the next 12 months. The increase lags behind ...

Contested deal in Italian metalworking (132 words)

Agreement has been reached for some 1,500,000 employees in the Italian metalworking on pay increases for the next two years. However, very unusually the ...

Training deal agreed in Germany (297 words)

The IG Metall metalworking union has agreed a deal giving employees new rights to paid training. The agreement covers workers in Baden-Wrttemberg, traditionally an ...

Public sector takes lead on London weighting changes (3997 words)

The police, nurses, local government workers and firefighters are some of the key public sector workers who have won, or are in the process ...

Pay, prices and earnings increases all edge downwards (420 words)

Pay deals ...