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Fact Service July 2017
Issue 30 (27/07/2017) - UNISON success over tribunal fees ; Holiday childcare costs; Rogue employers beware unless ...; Chief executives get 2% rise on basic pay; 'Notable slowdown' in the economy; Unions splash the cash from political funds
Issue 29 (20/07/2017) - Thirty-five executives pocket a packet; Drop in inflation rates; Deaths at work down by 10 in 2016-17; New Trade Union Act for Wales; Right to parental leave on death of a child; Mesothelioma death toll averages 2,500 a year
Issue 28 (13/07/2017) - Taylor review 'no game-changer', says TUC; Landmark ruling on gay person's pension; Unemployment slips below 1.5 million; Weekly earnings fall in real terms
Issue 27 (06/07/2017) - Top executives scoop £70.73 million; Postal staff suffer dog attacks every day; Economy grows but trade deficit widens; Another challenge to bogus self-employment; Proposals on sentences for manslaughter ; Few aware of right to unpaid parental leave
Issue 30
UNISON success over tribunal fees (621 words)
After a long legal battle, public services UNISON has won a landmark court victory against the government, which means that employment tribunal fees ...
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Holiday childcare costs (371 words)
School’s out for summer, as Alice Cooper sang, but that leaves working parents faced with the annual task of finding affordable local childcare ... Subscribers only
Rogue employers beware unless … (473 words)
The director of labour market enforcement has warned rogue employers that he would be consulting on how to make full use of powers to jail the worst ... Subscribers only
Chief executives get 2% rise on basic pay (238 words)
The median increase to base salaries for FTSE 100 chief executive officers in 2016-17 was 2%, according to research by Fit Remuneration ...
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'Notable slowdown' in UK economy (130 words)
The economy has experienced a notable slowdown in the first half of this year the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
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Unions splash the cash from political funds (458 words)
The general election in 2015 saw a rise of almost a quarter in the spending of union political funds.
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Issue 29
Thirty-five executives pocket a packet (660 words)
Private equity, home emergency repairs and credit rating feature as the activities of the companies headed by top three executive in the latest ... Subscribers only
Drop in inflation rates (456 words)
Price inflation in June dropped from five-year highs, official figures show.
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Deaths at work down by 10 in 2016-17 (378 words)
The overall number of workers fatally injured at work in Great Britain fell last year, according to the latest official figures.
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New Trade Union Act for Wales (199 words)
Trade unionists have welcomed the passing of a Welsh law which tears chunks out of Tory anti-strike legislation passed just a year ago.
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Right to parental leave on death of a child (242 words)
Parents who are employed and have suffered the death of a child would receive statutory paid leave to grieve, under a new law being supported by the ... Open access
Mesothelioma death toll averages 2,500 a year (134 words)
The number of deaths from mesothelioma, a form of cancer that develops following the inhalation of asbestos fibres, continues to run at over 2,500 a ... Open access
Issue 28
Taylor review 'no game-changer', says TUC (487 words)
Trade unions have given a muted welcome to the much anticipated review of modern working practices, headed by Matthew Taylor.
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Landmark ruling on gay person's pension (359 words)
The Supreme Court has ruled a man and his husband should have the same pension rights as an opposite-sex couple, clarifying that schemes cannot ... Subscribers only
Unemployment slips below 1.5 million (596 words)
UK unemployment has posted another fall, official figures show.
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Weekly earnings fall in real terms (687 words)
Real wages declined again in May as the rise in weekly average earnings was much less than the rise in the cost of living as measured by retail price ... Subscribers only
Issue 27
Top executives scoop £70.73 million (665 words)
The thirty-five top executives listed in the table on page 106 had a remuneration package of over £1 million in their firm’s latest financial year. ... Subscribers only
Postal staff suffer dog attacks every day (329 words)
As part of Dog Awareness Week, Royal Mail has revealed that over the last five years there have been around 14,500 dog attacks on postmen and woman ... Subscribers only
Economy grows but trade deficit widens (294 words)
The latest estimates on the performance of the UK economy are little changed from earlier ones, official figures show.
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Another challenge to bogus self-employment (301 words)
A legal challenge has been launched by the GMB general union against private hire firm Addison Lee seeking confirmation of their members’ status as ... Subscribers only
Proposals on sentences for manslaughter (219 words)
A consultation on proposals for how offenders convicted of manslaughter should be sentenced in England and Wales has been launched by the Sentencing ... Open access
Few aware of right to unpaid parental leave (343 words)
Nearly half of workers are not aware about the entitlement to unpaid parental leave, according to Crossland Solicitors.
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