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Workplace Report July 2018
Market supplements – Workplace Report examines some of the pay solutions used by organisations to help solve staffing problems; Pay ratios - The government has published regulations that will require large companies to reveal its pay ratio - the gap between its CEO’s pay and the average employee; Latest case law on dismissal and redundancy
Pay and prices
Pay deals get stuck at 3.1% (109 words)
Wage growth stuttered in June, data from LRD’s Payline shows.
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Open access
Labour Research Department’s Payline Database (226 words)
Percentage increases on lowest basic rates (by agreements covered)
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Average weekly earnings (AWE) (245 words)
Regular pay excluding bonuses. Percentage annual increases
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Full-time weekly average earnings (42 words)
ASHE 2017 median uprated by AWE. ... Open access
XpertHR (19 words)
Median increases for three months to June 2018 ... Open access
Prices (77 words)
1 Retail Prices Index (RPI),
Jan ’87=100 ... Open access
2018 forecasts (39 words)
1 Fourth quarter ... Open access
Bargaining news
Victory over formation of arms-length company (808 words)
Cost-cutting is tempting some NHS Trusts to set up arms-length companies, with the chance to employ new staff on inferior terms and conditions.
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Tories don’t accept all of pay review bodies’ proposals (871 words)
The public sector pay cap may be officially over, but the government has refused, to the dismay of unions, to accept fully any of the five sets of ... Subscribers only
King’s Place settlement (160 words)
Current pay rates for staff and casuals at the Kings Place Arts and Music centre, Kings Cross, London, have increased by 2% backdated to 1 April 2018. ... Open access
Aberdeen airport deal (114 words)
Workers at Aberdeen International Airport, members of the Unite general union, have accepted a 3% pay deal following a new offer by company ... Open access
Civil service unions demand judicial review over pay guidance (379 words)
Civil service unions FDA, PCS and Prospect, have united in a call for a Judicial Review over the government’s below-inflation pay remit ... Subscribers only
New rulebook allows for worker directors (324 words)
New rules have been published on how employee interests should be considered in the UK’s largest companies and having an employee representative at ... Subscribers only
Care workers’ industrial action takes early bath (142 words)
Strike action by care workers in Bath and North East Somerset was called off after an agreement was reached between public services union UNISON and ... Open access
Unions reject ‘insulting offer’ from Ericsson (136 words)
Professionals’ union Prospect and the CWU communications workers’ union are urging field services operatives in communications group Ericsson to ... Open access
Equality news
A quarter of new dads miss out on paternity pay (404 words)
One in four working men who became fathers in the last year didn’t qualify for paternity pay, according to a TUC analysis.
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One in three UK employers admit transphobia (349 words)
Up to one in three UK employers admit they are “less likely” to hire a transgender person, according to research carried out by Crossland ... Subscribers only
Workers taking sick leave for Crohn’s and colitis (155 words)
A third of staff have lied over the true reason they are taking time off work when unwell, for fear of stigma in the workplace, new research has ... Open access
Plans for grandparental leave put on hold (121 words)
Government plans to introduce grandparental leave this year have been deferred.
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Learning and training news
Call to break apprenticeships gender segregation (350 words)
Unionlearn, the TUC’s learning and skills organisation, has welcomed a new report into gender segregation within apprenticeships, which is calling ... Subscribers only
Recruitment and organisation news
CWU targets new members at Santander offshoot (325 words)
The CWU communication workers’ Union has embarked on a major drive to recruit up to 1,000 new members in Santander bank’s IT subsidiary following ... Subscribers only
Council charter with Unite over building schemes (72 words)
Bristol City Council has committed to working with general union Unite to ensure construction projects under its control provide good conditions for ... Open access
London sparks fly to union (147 words)
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which is building up a reputation for organising “gig” economy workers such as Deliveroo ... Open access
European news
Spanish unions and employers sign 3%-a-year three-year deal (541 words)
Spain’s two main union confederations, CCOO and UGT, have reached agreement with the country’s two main employers’ associations on a new pay ... Subscribers only
Novel deal in chemicals in Italy (305 words)
Unions and employers have reached a new agreement for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in Italy. The deal, signed on 19 July, covers 176,000 ... Subscribers only
Above inflation rise for civil servants in Netherlands (165 words)
Unions and the government of the Netherlands have agreed a pay increase for the country’s 120,000 civil servants, which is significantly above ... Open access
National minimum wage to rise in Germany (145 words)
The national minimum wage in Germany is set to rise by 3.96% on 1 January 2019 from the current figure of €8.84 an hour to €9.19. There will be a ... Open access
Law - Dismissal
Dismissal - the law (769 words)
f Employees dismissed unfairly can go to a tribunal if they have been working for at least two years. Some specific types of dismissal do not ... Subscribers only
Rep unfairly dismissed over use of confidential information (668 words)
Mr Morris was employed by Manchester’s tram/light rail system Metrolink until he was dismissed in 2014.
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Does misconduct have to be ‘gross’ for dismissal without warning? (485 words)
Quantiles supplies sales staff for pharmaceutical companies. Mr Barongo was employed by Quantiles as a medical sales rep and towards the end of his ... Subscribers only
Series of acts of misconduct can justify summary dismissal (534 words)
Mr Mbubaegbu worked as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Homerton hospital. He had done so for over 15 years and had a clear disciplinary record. ... Subscribers only
Not fair to refuse right to appeal on working in UK (660 words)
Mr Afzal was employed by Domino’s Pizza from 27 October 2009, firstly as a delivery driver and then by August 2016 he was an acting assistant ... Subscribers only
Law - Redundancy
Redundancy - thw law (191 words)
A redundancy situation exists where an employer closes or intends to close the workplace or reduce the number of employees doing a particular kind of ... Open access
Employer should have considered ‘bumping’ (684 words)
Mentor Graphics is part of a worldwide group based in the USA, Mentor Graphics Corporation. Mentor Graphics is organised on a global basis with staff ... Subscribers only
Health & safety news
Community sector charter on violence at work launched (322 words)
Public services union UNISON launched a new community sector Violence at Work Charter in parliament last month and is calling on MPs for their ... Subscribers only
Claim in UK over US injury (208 words)
A member of the PCS public and commercial services union injured while working abroad can claim compensation under English law, allowing for a higher ... Open access
Green stuff from food workers’ union (158 words)
After moving the historic climate change motion at last year’s TUC Congress, the BFAWU food workers’ union is adapting its health and safety ... Open access
Psychosocial risks (108 words)
A new European report highlights the importance of worker involvement and management commitment in managing psychosocial risks, which include stress, ... Open access
Report all dog attacks (160 words)
The CWU communications workers’ union used the annual Dog Awareness Week last month to urge its members to report all dog attacks.
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Health & safety - HSE Monitor
Rise in fatalities last year (283 words)
Official figures for work-related fatal injuries show that 144 workers were killed in 2017-2018 — an increase of nine on the previous year.
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Grenfell inquiry should look at role of deregulation (332 words)
Matt Wrack, general secretary of the FBU fire brigades union, has demanded that the Grenfell public inquiry addresses the whole fire safety regime, ... Subscribers only
Controls over sales of knives and corrosive substances (109 words)
Shopworkers’ union Usdaw has welcomed the Offensive Weapons Bill, which will tighten the law on the sale of corrosive substances and knives, and is ... Open access
Redefine healthcare as safety critical industry (129 words)
The creation of an independent body to investigate serious patient safety incidents in England can only work effectively if healthcare is redefined ... Open access
Official inaction over construction site (142 words)
General union Unite has accused the HSE and Westminster council of inaction after it raised the alarm about workers illegally living on a ... Open access
Features
Do selective supplements ease labour supply problems? (2,293 words)
Many employers facing recruitment and retention problems may find offering higher pay is one way of making their jobs more attractive. However, they ... Subscribers only
Executive pay in spotlight as firms will have to reveal pay ratios (1,718 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