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Fact Service January 2016
Issue 4 (28/01/2016) - Huge earnings loss over last seven years; Lords inflict defeat over political funds; Union concern over migrant worker deaths; Huge bill for unions over Trade Union Bill; Retailers wait on National Living wage; Executive excess shows no sign of waning
Issue 3 (21/01/2016) - Unemployment falls across the UK ; Some protection for zero-hours workers ; Weekly earnings growth still low ; Inflation at 12-month high ; Blacklisters to miss out on Scottish contracts
Issue 2 (14/01/2016) - Conservative threat to opposition funding ; More companies join Living Wage crowd; Hedge fund fat cats ; Bosses can snoop on workers' internet use; Whitehall spend on consultants rises ; Asbestos company smeared campaigners ; Factory output remains week at end of 2015
Issue 1 (07/01/2016) - Low wage growth expected in 2016; Wealth divide grows ever wider ; Workplace trends in the coming year ; Fat Cat Tuesday; Britain's rail fares the highest in Europe ; Manifesto for disability equality from TUC ; Farm workers keep protection of board; Pay cuts at KPMG
Issue 4
Huge earnings loss over last seven years (493 words)
Average pay in Britain is still worth £2,270 less in real terms than it was in 2008 — a shortfall of £44 a week, a new analysis by the TUC ...
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Lords inflict defeat over political funds (270 words)
The government could be forced to think again over plans to restrict trade union funding of political parties after a defeat in the Lords.
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Union concern over migrant worker deaths (265 words)
Construction union UCATT has called on the Health and Safety Executive to urgently review their reporting methods and for the industry to examine ... Subscribers only
Huge bill for unions over Trade Union Bill (315 words)
The red tape contained in the Tories’ Trade Union Bill will cost unions more than £37 million over the next six years.
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Retailers wait on National Living Wage (293 words)
Almost three-quarters (70%) of retail chain respondents are undecided about their approach to implementing chancellor George Osborne’s National ... Subscribers only
Executive excess shows no sign of waning (676 words)
Thirty two executives of top companies were happy to receive a remuneration package of at least £1 million in the firm’s last financial year.
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Issue 3
Unemployment falls across the UK (598 words)
The downward trend in unemployment continues, official figures show.
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Some protection for zero-hours workers (247 words)
New regulations that give zero-hours workers a remedy in the employment tribunal if they are victimised for breaching an exclusivity term in their ...
Open access
Weekly earnings growth still low (627 words)
The TUC call that “Britain needs a pay rise” still resonates in the latest official weekly earnings figures.
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Inflation at 12-month high (398 words)
Retail price inflation edged higher last month, official figures show.
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Blacklisters to miss out on Scottish contracts (136 words)
Companies that are or have been involved in blacklisting will be excluded from bidding for public contracts, under new regulations that were laid in ... Open access
Issue 2
Conservative threat to opposition funding (556 words)
An expected £6 million fall in Labour’s annual income as a result of legal changes being proposed by the Conservatives will make it impossible for ... Subscribers only
More companies join Living Wage crowd (240 words)
Two more firms have recently announced that they have received Living Wage accreditation.
... Open access
Hedge fund fat cats (140 words)
Partners at the UK offices of the hedge fund Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP were paid an average of £3.3 million pounds in the financial year ... Open access
Bosses can snoop on workers' internet use (274 words)
Employers can read workers’ private messages sent via chat software and webmail accounts during working hours, judges have ruled.
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Whitehall spend on consultants rises (454 words)
The Conservative government may be wielding the axe on civil service jobs, but central government spending on outside consultants and temporary staff ... Subscribers only
Asbestos company smeared campaigners (380 words)
Secret industry documents have revealed that the world’s biggest asbestos factory ran a smear campaign in the 1980s against journalists and ... Subscribers only
Factory output remains weak at end of 2015 (220 words)
Manufacturing output remains weak, latest official figures show.
... Open access
Issue 1
Low wage growth expected in 2016 (440 words)
Wage growth will remain at around 2% for most or all of 2016, according to the professional body, the Chartered Institute for Personnel and ... Subscribers only
Wealth divide grows ever wider (325 words)
Britain’s richest households have pulled further ahead of the rest of the population as house prices have accelerated, with the top 10% now owning ... Subscribers only
Workplace trends in the coming year (240 words)
The workplace is ever evolving, bringing opportunities and challenges on how best to manage workplace relationships and deliver success.
... Open access
Fat Cat Tuesday (243 words)
By the end of the first Tuesday of 2016, Britain’s top bosses had made more money in 2016 than the average UK worker earns in an entire year, ... Open access
Britain's rail fares the highest in Europe (288 words)
The New Year saw rail fares increase and UK commuters now spend up to six times as much of their salary on rail fares as other European passengers. ... Subscribers only
Manifesto for disability equality from TUC (388 words)
It’s a shameful statistic, but nearly half of disabled people are not in work, official figures show. It’s timely then that a manifesto, ... Subscribers only
Farm workers keep protection of board (205 words)
The Scottish Agricultural Wages Board (SAWB) will continue to protect the rights of low paid farm workers in Scotland, rural affairs secretary ... Open access
Pay cuts at KPMG (178 words)
Partners at KPMG — one of the “Big Four" accountancy firms — saw their average remuneration cut by 13% last year, according to the firm’s 2015 ... Open access