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Fact Service August 2014
Issue 34 (28/08/2014) - Closed shop at the top; Name and shame; Welfare reforms hit working families most; Pay settlements; Tell us about loopholes; Low-paid women are missing out; Own up, clean up, pay up
Issue 33 (21/08/2014) - Self-employed rate at 40-year high; Seven-figure pay packages for 19 more; Older workforce grows by more than a third; Fat cat lawyers and accountants; Inflation down, 'grim news' for commuters
Issue 32 (14/08/2014) - Unemployment edges lower towards 2m; Six ways to tackle living crisis; Earnings misery; High-skilled workforce missing in England; Twenty-five executives on £1m or more
Issue 31 (07/08/2014) - Factory output up, but running out of steam; Executive pay - another 26 on £1m plus; CDC pension schemes; Money is there for firefighters' pensions; Stronger safeguards needed on silica dust; Carr review hits political barriers; London council's costly employment offer
Issue 34
Closed shop at the top (441 words)
Britain is deeply elitist, says Alan Milburn, the chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. ...
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Name and shame (350 words)
Councils who commission social care employers that go on to flout National Minimum Wage laws should be named and shamed by the government, says the ... Subscribers only
Welfare reforms hit working families most (384 words)
The majority of social security cuts announced by the government will fall on working families, who will suffer more than twice the level of benefit ... Subscribers only
Pay settlements (291 words)
Settlements sourced from Labour Research Department’s Payline database show an overall midpoint increase of 2.5% on lowest basic pay rates in the ... Subscribers only
Tell us about loopholes (200 words)
Business secretary Vince Cable called on employers and trade unions to expose loopholes in zero-hours contracts that could be exploited by “rogue ...
Open access
Low-paid women are missing out (348 words)
Women, especially those on low pay, have been shut out of the recovery. ... Subscribers only
Own up, clean up, pay up (169 words)
Procurement officers and councillors in Scotland are being asked by the GMB general union to exclude Carillion and other building firms from ... Open access
Issue 33
Self-employed rate at 40-year high (528 words)
Self-employment is higher than at any point over past 40 years with the number of self-employed women rising at a faster rate than men, according to ... Subscribers only
Seven-figure pay packages for 19 more (482 words)
Nineteen top executives from eight companies in the FTS350 are the latest to feature in Fact Service’s regular disclosures on executive pay. ... Subscribers only
Older workforce grows by more than a third (211 words)
The number of employees over the age of 65 has jumped 36% to 1.09 million since 2010, according to research by Saga. ... Open access
Fat cat lawyers and accountants (362 words)
An estimated 1,370 top lawyers and accountants were paid over £1 million in the UK last year, a new report from the High Pay Centre finds. The ... Subscribers only
Inflation down, 'grim news' for commuters (698 words)
The inflation rate was down on both main measures, official figures show. ... Subscribers only
Issue 32
Unemployment edges lower towards 2m (613 words)
Unemployment moved closer to the two million mark, the latest official figures show ... Subscribers only
Six ways to tackle living crisis (122 words)
Work simply no longer pays for millions of people in the UK, according to a pamphlet — How unions can make work pay — produced by the GMB general ... Open access
Earnings misery (738 words)
Pay misery for the UK workforce continues, the latest official figures show ... Subscribers only
High-skilled workforce missing in England (253 words)
It’s only in parts on London and the South East that high-skill jobs outrank lesser-skilled jobs, government figures show. ... Subscribers only
Twenty-five executives on £1m or more (520 words)
The latest tranche of top executives covers 25 top executive employed in the boardroom of 13 companies ranked in the FTSE350. ... Subscribers only
Issue 31
Factory output up, but running out of steam (191 words)
Some of the steam went out of manufacturing output in the last quarter, according to official figures. ... Open access
Executive pay — another 26 on £1m plus (428 words)
Another tranche of top executives — 26 in total — with remuneration packages worth at least £1 million feature in the table over. ... Subscribers only
CDC pension schemes (279 words)
New pension schemes will be included in primary legislation for next year’s Private Pensions Bill,as announced in the Queen’s Speech on 4 June. ... Subscribers only
Money is there for firefighters’ pensions (267 words)
The government would not have to put in additional money to afford to pay firefighters’ pensions from 55 years of age, according to the Fire ... Subscribers only
Stronger safeguards needed on silica dust (509 words)
Hundreds of thousands of workers are being put at risk and more than 1,000 could die every year due to inadequate safeguards for a workplace dust ... Subscribers only
Carr review hits political barriers (372 words)
An independent review of laws governing industrial disputes has been dramatically scaled back after the QC in charge objected to recent ministerial ... Subscribers only
London council’s costly employment offer (184 words)
The London Borough of Bromley has been ordered to pay more than £64,000 in compensation to 18 of its staff, after an employment tribunal ruled it ... Open access