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Fact Service March 2018
Issue 13 (29/03/2018) - Keep uprating pensions by RPI, says government; Police were involved in blacklisting of workers; Change culture to tackle sexual harassment ; Employment law change in April; Rise in trafficking and modern day slavery
Issue 12 (22/03/2018) - Working dads failed by workplace policies; Jobless increase at start of 2018; Inflation cut but no end to living standards crisis ; Earnings rise falls back below 3%
Issue 11 (15/03/2018) - Quiche added to 2018 inflation basket; Chancellor Hammond doesn't spring surprise; Minimum wage offenders named; Landmark ruling over employee's cancer; Equal pay claims stack up in retail sector; More goods leaving factory gates
Issue 10 (08/03/2018) - Thirty-one directors pocket £84 million ; Takeovers by UK firms abroad at 17-year high ; Review of impact of work on wellbeing ; Women's Pay Day ; Redundancies a threat to technical education
Issue 9 (01/03/2018) - TUC advises on what to do in bad weather; Time 'on call' counts as working time; Workers' pensions should not be a lottery ; Economic growth for 2017 revised down; Above-inflation rise in childcare costs; No end in sight for UK's pay squeeze
Issue 13
Keep uprating pensions by RPI, says government (454 words)
In a welcome move, the government has sided with the unions and pensioners against some employers and pension providers and said it would not let ...
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Police were involved in blacklisting of workers (442 words)
Scotland Yard has admitted Special Branch officers passed information to a controversial network, including the Consulting Association, that ... Subscribers only
Change culture to tackle sexual harassment (568 words)
Corrosive working cultures have silenced the voices of victims and normalised sexual harassment, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) ... Subscribers only
Employment law changes in April (420 words)
A raft of updates to employment law comes into effect in early April.
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Rise in trafficking and modern day slavery (284 words)
The number of potential victims of trafficking and modern slavery reported to the authorities rose by more than a third, according to a new report ... Subscribers only
Issue 12
Working dads failed by workplace policies (382 words)
The government must reform workplace policies to ensure they meet the needs of the 21st century family and to better support working dads in caring ... Subscribers only
Jobless increase at start of 2018 (644 words)
Unemployment posted a second increase in as many months, official figures show.
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Inflation cut but no end to living standards crisis (467 words)
Retail price inflation has fallen for a second consecutive month.
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Earnings rise falls back below 3% (602 words)
The rise in earnings dropped back as the influence of City Xmas bonuses fell out of the equation.
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Issue 11
Quiche added to 2018 inflation basket (312 words)
Quiche is in and the pork pie out of the basket of goods used to calculate the various rates of inflation.
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Chancellor Hammond doesn't spring surprise (528 words)
Conservative chancellor Philip Hammond made little use of his Spring Statement, except to outline the economic outlook now and in the mid-term.
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Minimum wage offenders named (237 words)
Asian restaurant chain Wagamama was one of 179 employers named and shamed for not paying the statutory National Minimum Wage to some of its staff.
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Landmark ruling over employee's cancer (546 words)
Workplace disability discrimination protection for cancer sufferers has been strengthened as a result of a landmark legal case supported by the Unite ... Subscribers only
Equal pay claims stack up in retail sector (348 words)
More large retailers are facing equal pay claims on top of the claim by over 200,000 Tesco workers (see Fact Service, issue 6).
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More goods leaving factory gates (206 words)
Manufacturing output continued its expansion in the New Year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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Issue 10
Thirty-one directors pocket £84 million (603 words)
Thirty-one executives, who received a remuneration package of at least £1 million, feature in the latest tranche of highly paid executives.
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Takeovers by UK firms abroad at 17-year high (259 words)
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by UK companies abroad reached a 17-year high in 2017, official figures show, but inward M&A slumped.
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Review of impact of work on wellbeing (671 words)
Latest evidence, mostly from UK, into how work is likely to change in the future, what the probable impact will be on people's physical and mental ... Subscribers only
Women’s Pay Day (316 words)
International Women’s Day — 8 March — saw the publication of an analysis by the TUC that finds that the average woman has to wait more than two ... Subscribers only
Redundancies a threat to technical education (345 words)
The country’s ability to deliver “a world class skills and technical education” is under threat, as further education colleges are announcing ... Subscribers only
Issue 9
TUC advises on what to do in bad weather (395 words)
With the weather deteriorating day by day and more snow and ice forecast around the UK, the TUC has called on employers not to force staff to make ... Subscribers only
Time 'on call' counts as working time (470 words)
Time spent “on call” by workers or employees carrying out duties outside of their workplace is to be counted as "working time" — even if the ... Subscribers only
Workers' pensions should not be a lottery (387 words)
For most of today’s workers, their ability to provide for themselves in their old age is a lottery, the TUC argues in a new report.
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Economic growth for 2017 revised down (157 words)
The UK economy did not grow as fast as first thought, official figures show.
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Above-inflation rise in childcare costs (706 words)
Parents with children aged under two have seen a big rise in childcare costs, a survey finds.
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No end in sight to UK's pay squeeze (132 words)
Britain is increasingly becoming an overworked and underpaid nation. Almost eight out of 10 workers believe they will be poorer over the coming year ... Open access