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Fact Service October 2017
Issue 43 (26/10/2017) - Stuck with low pay - no great escape ; Refund scheme for tribunal fees; Public - private sector pay question ; UK economy grows, but who benefits? ; Living Wage employers now number 3,500 ; The great wealth divide in Britain
Issue 42 (19/10/2017) - Strip blacklister of Big Ben contract; Retail price inflation remains at 3.9%; Weak earnings growth hits living standards; UK unemployment falls but claimants rise
Issue 41 (12/10/2017) Guidance on mental health in workplace ; Five blackspots for pension provision ; Young workers lose out by up to £6,300 a year ; High fives for unions and their good work ; Race equality audit highlights divide ; Factory output rosier; Zero-hours congrats
Issue 40 (05/10/2017) Membership of pension schemes grows; Suspension of wage enforcement extended; Lenient sentence for vicious dog attack; Call for investment in mental health training; UK's current account deficit grows
Issue 43
Stuck with low pay — no great escape (475 words)
Low pay is endemic in the UK and there has been little progress in the number of people managing to escape from poorly paid jobs, says the ...
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Refund scheme for tribunal fees (499 words)
The government has announced details of the opening stages of the refund scheme for tribunal fees.
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Public — private sector pay question (236 words)
The government can no longer claim that public sector workers are “overpaid” to justify its crippling 1% pay cap after its own statistics ...
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UK economy grows, but who benefits? (332 words)
The UK economy performed better than expected in the July-September quarter of the year, official preliminary estimates show, but capitalism is not ... Subscribers only
Living Wage employers now number 3,500 (217 words)
Two more employers have joined the ranks of those paying the voluntary Living Wage to take the total number of accredited employers to 3,500.
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The great wealth divide in Britain (520 words)
The UK is a wealthy nation, but that wealth is very unevenly divided, a report from the IPPR think tank says.
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Issue 42
Strip blacklister of Big Ben contract (264 words)
Over 70 MPs have so far signed an early day motion (EDM) tabled by Labour MP Chuka Umunna which calls for Sir Robert McAlpine to be stripped of the ... Subscribers only
Retail price inflation remains at 3.9% (548 words)
Retail price inflation was unchanged, but it may not be the end of its rise.
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Weak earnings growth hits living standards (643 words)
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady breathed new life into the “Britain needs a pay rise” slogan on the release of the latest average weekly ... Subscribers only
UK unemployment falls but claimants rise (651 words)
There was a 10th consecutive fall in unemployment, latest official figures show.
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Issue 41
Guidance on mental health in workplace (458 words)
Mental ill health costs employers in the UK £30 billion every year through lost production, recruitment and absence, according to the employment ... Subscribers only
Five blackspots for pension provision (293 words)
A TUC analysis has identified pension blackspots in the UK — industries where workers are not enrolled into a pension scheme.
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Young workers lose out by up to £6,300 a year (412 words)
Workers aged under-25 are missing out on between £820 and £6,300 a year because they are not entitled to the statutory National Living Wage (NLW). ... Subscribers only
High fives for unions and their good work (270 words)
New evidence of the good unions do has been published by the TUC in a series of reports.
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Race equality audit highlights divide (363 words)
Glaring disparities between white Britons and British ethnic minorities have been revealed in a national audit of racial inequality in public ... Subscribers only
Factory output rosier (184 words)
UK factories contributed to an overall increase in the output of the production industries, official figures show.
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Zero-hours congrats (152 words)
The UK’s leading supplier of outsourced hospitality and housekeeping services is to show the door to zero-hours contracts.
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Issue 40
Membership of pension schemes grows (500 words)
Auto-enrolment of workers into an occupational pension scheme has boosted pension membership to its highest level.
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Suspension of wage enforcement extended (370 words)
Unions have raised concerns over the government’s extension for another month of no minimum wage enforcement in the social care sector.
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UK economic growth lags competitors (320 words)
The economy grew at its slowest annual pace since 2013 in the second quarter of the year, according to revised official figures.
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Lenient sentence for vicious dog attack (273 words)
An inadequate court sentence handed to an
irresponsible dog owner and the failure to have dangerous dogs put down have been slammed by the CWU ... Subscribers only
Call for investment in mental health training (368 words)
Employers should invest in mental health training, says the Business in the Community (BiTC).
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UK's current account deficit grows (405 words)
The UK’s current account deficit widened by £0.9 billion to £23.2 billion in the second quarter of 2017 compared with the first quarter, the ... Subscribers only