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Fact Service September 2015
Issue 38 (24/09/2015) - Proposals to improve employment tribunals; Supermarket Lidl to pay Living Wage; Cap on public sector redundancy pay-offs; Forecasts for the economy; Tribunal numbers dive; Price of a life - the price of car?; Who misses out on auto-enrolment; Presenteeism rife
Issue 37 (17/09/2015) - Widening opposition to Trade Union Bill; Jobless total up again; Rebound in average earnings growth; RPI inflation edges higher, CPI at 0%
Issue 36 (10/09/2015) - Fat cats in banking; Number of zero-hours contracts rises; Trade Union Bill comes under attack; Factory output weakening; You never see a poor bookie - or fat cat
Issue 35 (03/09/2015) - UK plc owned by rest of the world; Fight goes on for abolition of fees; Steady growth in 2015; Gender pay flip-flop; Capability assessments 'not fit for purpose'; Check out the tasty executive pay deals
Issue 38
Proposals to improve employment tribunals (453 words)
The Law Society has published proposals to improve the employment tribunal structure — for employees, employers, and the administration of justice. ...
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Supermarket Lidl to pay Living Wage (334 words)
Supermarket Lidl has said it will become the first UK supermarket to implement the Living Wage as recommended by the Living Wage Foundation.
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Cap on public sector redundancy pay-offs (425 words)
The cap on redundancy pay for public-sector workers will be set at £95,000, the government has confirmed.
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Forecasts for economy (216 words)
The economy is expected to grow by 2.6% this year, according to Forecasts for the UK economy, a monthly comparison of independent forecasts collated ...
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Tribunal numbers dive (90 words)
The number of employment tribunals has plummeted over the past three years.
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Price of a life — the price of a car? (223 words)
Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has been sentenced for safety breaches discovered during an investigation into a death of a worker at its ... Open access
Who misses out on auto-enrolment? (262 words)
Women are less likely to meet the qualifying criteria for automatic enrolment into a pension, new research finds.
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Presenteesim rife (261 words)
Pressure to go to work when sick — presenteeism — is a major issue for organisations. More than one in eight (13%) workers would have to be ... Subscribers only
Issue 37
Widening opposition to Trade Union Bill (495 words)
As the Tories’ Trade Union Bill had its second reading in parliament, opposition to it is growing.
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Jobless total up again (602 words)
The number of jobless in the UK increased for the third consecutive month.
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Rebound in average earnings growth (579 words)
Earnings have seen accelerating growth, according to the latest officials figures.
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RPI inflation edges higher, CPI at 0% (454 words)
In August, the annual rate of inflation — as measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) — was up to 1.1% from 1.0% for each of the previous three ... Subscribers only
Issue 36
Fat cats in banking (272 words)
The City of London dominates new figures on pay in banking released by the European regulator.
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Number of zero-hours contracts rises (514 words)
The number of people on zero-hours contracts has increased to almost three-quarters of a million over the past year, official figures show.
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Trade Union Bill comes under attack (604 words)
Leading human rights groups have warned that the Trade Union Bill is “a major attack on civil liberties in the UK”.
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Factory output weakening (153 words)
Manufacturing output is weakening latest official figures show.
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You never see a poor bookie — or fat cat (640 words)
The old adage of "you never see a poor bookie" is writ large this week in the list of 30 top executives whose remuneration package was £1 million or ... Subscribers only
Issue 35
UK plc owned by rest of the world (281 words)
The present government’s desire to follow in Margaret Thatcher's footsteps with a sell-off of the family silver” — the nationalised industries ... Subscribers only
Fight goes on for abolition of fees (376 words)
The long-running legal process over the public services union UNISON’s fight for the abolition of tribunal fees continues after the Court of Appeal ... Subscribers only
Steady growth in 2015 (123 words)
The UK economy is growing, but only steadily, the latest official estimates show.
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Gender pay flip-flop (309 words)
Women earn more than men in their 20s, but then gender pay gap flip flops back in favour of men, a new analysis finds.
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Capability assessments 'not fit for purpose' (311 words)
Nearly 90 people a month are dying after being declared fit for work, according to new data that has prompted unions and campaigners to call for an ... Subscribers only
Check out the tasty executive pay deals (758 words)
There is retail and restaurant flavour to the latest list of executives whose remuneration packages amounted to over £1 million last year.
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