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Fact Service June 2018
Issue 26 (28/06/2018) - Forty executives pocket total of £90.7m ; Postal staff still suffer too many dog attacks ; Tribunal ruling favours Hermes couriers ; Advice and guidance on overtime from Acas ; Unacceptable level of destitution in UK
Issue 25 (21/06/2018) - Trade unions in 2017; Allow flexible working during World Cup; Trans discrimination rife among employers; TUC calls for radical overhaul of family pay ; Employment passport for Pimlico plumber ; Apprenticeship starts down in 2017-18 ; Forecasts for economy
Issue 24 (14/06/2018 - Boardroom-worker pay gap must be published; Retail price inflation remains above 3%; Unemployment at its lowest level since 2005; Earnings growth 'stuck in slow lane'
Issue 23 (07/06/2018) - Thirty two executives on £1m or more a year; High-value deals boost inward takeovers; Striking figures on labour disputes; EU posted workers directive revised; Widening generational pay gap hits young
Issue 26
Forty executives pocket total of £90.7m (852 words)
The company reporting season is already coming to an end for this year, but there are still some huge remuneration packages to top executive to ...
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Postal staff still suffer too many dog attacks (448 words)
Postal staff deliver six days a week to around 30 million addresses across the UK and dog attacks are a significant hazard with over 44 postmen and ... Subscribers only
Tribunal ruling favours Hermes couriers (232 words)
The legal decisions continue to stack up against gig economy companies that claim staff are “self-employed.
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Advice and guidance on overtime from Acas (283 words)
Employment relations service Acas has published updated guidance on overtime.
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Unacceptable level of destitution in UK (406 words)
Around 1.5 million people were destitute in the UK at some point during 2017, according to poverty campaign group the Joseph Rowntree Foundation ... Subscribers only
Issue 25
Trade unions in 2017 (600 words)
Membership of trade unions increased in 2017, official figures show.
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Allow flexible working during World Cup (193 words)
The TUC has called on employers to allow staff to work flexibly if they want to watch the World Cup during their normal working hours.
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Trans discrimination rife among employers (512 words)
A strong prejudice among UK employers towards transgender workers with one in three employers admitting they are “less likely” to hire a ... Subscribers only
TUC calls for radical overhaul of family pay (326 words)
One in four men who became dads in the last year didn’t qualify for paternity pay, according to the TUC.
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Employment passport for Pimlico plumber (271 words)
There have been two recent positives for those fighting for employment rights at work in the gig economy.
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Apprenticeship starts down in 2017-18 (182 words)
The number of apprenticeship starts has fallen significantly since last year, calling into question the effectiveness of the apprenticeship levy.
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Forecasts for economy (141 words)
There’s been little overall change in forecasts between May and June, according to the latest Forecasts for the UK economy from the Treasury.
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Issue 24
Boardroom-worker pay gap must be published (276 words)
The UK’s largest companies will have to justify the pay gap between bosses and their workers under new government regulations laid before ... Subscribers only
Retail price inflation remains above 3% (420 words)
The retail price inflation rate returned to its March level in May.
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Unemployment at its lowest since 2005 (620 words)
Unemployed hit its lowest level for 13 years, official figures show.
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Earnings growth 'stuck in slow lane' (640 words)
In April 2018, average weekly earnings growth, including bonuses, were provisionally estimated to have risen by 2.5%, unchanged on the revised ... Subscribers only
Issue 23
Thirty two executives on £1m or more a year (882 words)
Thirty two top executives received a total of £73.88 million last year, the latest Fact Service examination of the remuneration reports of top FTSE 3 ... Subscribers only
High-value deals boost inward takeovers (293 words)
The values of inward and domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in the first quarter of 2018 were above the values recorded in all ... Subscribers only
Striking figures on labour disputes (567 words)
The number of strikes and the number of workers involved in strikes were at all-time lows last year. The number of days lost was the sixth lowest on ... Subscribers only
EU posted workers directive revised (194 words)
Workers posted to another EU country will be entitled to the same rate of pay and working conditions as their local counterparts, under revised rules ... Open access
Widening generational pay gap hits young (286 words)
The pay gap between young and older workers has increased by half in the last 20 years, according to a new report published by the TUC.
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