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Fact Service September 2018
Issue 39 (27/09/2018) - Pause to NHS Trusts setting up subsidiaries; Liability Bill one step closer to becoming law ; Support staff working unpaid overtime ; Minimum wage cheats hit hard last year ; Worker wins safety award then gets P45; Pensions watchdog ups supervision of schemes
Issue 38 (20/09/2018) - Workers worse off 10 years on from crisis ; Punishment for attacks on emergency staff ; Dearer travel pushes inflation higher ; Parents get right to bereavement leave; Crystal balls a little cloudier on economy; Progress - but more to do on equality
Issue 37 (13/09/2018) - Earnings growth puts on summer spurt; Employers need to become age-friendly; Fifth consecutive fall in factory output; Unemployment down for over 50s and overall
Issue 36 (06/09/2018) - Childcare costs outpace wage growth ; More battles against NHS subsidiaries ; Fall of inward company takeovers ; GMB fights against Arco derecognition ; Power to the people
Issue 39
Pause to NHS Trusts setting up subsidiaries (405 words)
Health service workers have claimed a “significant victory” after the national body that oversees NHS trusts ordered them to suspend the practice ...
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Liability Bill one step closer to becoming law (255 words)
The Conservative government’s proposals to restrict access to justice through a substantial reduction in the amount of compensation paid for ... Subscribers only
Support staff working unpaid overtime (506 words)
Public service support staff are working more than 40 million hours of unpaid overtime a year, says a report from UNISON.
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Minimum wage cheats hit hard last year (347 words)
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) achieved record enforcement results this year, identifying £15.6million of underpayments of the National ... Subscribers only
Worker wins safety award then gets P45 (230 words)
The GMB general union has expressed anger over the treatment handed out to a member and worker at the homewares and households goods chain Wilko.
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Pensions watchdog ups supervision of schemes (293 words)
Workplace pension schemes will come under greater scrutiny from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) from October 2018, its new report says.
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Issue 38
Workers worse off 10 years on from crisis (259 words)
Workers are £800 a year poorer post-crisis and the substantial impact of the financial crisis has left people’s wages 3% below what they were a ... Subscribers only
Punishment for attacks on emergency staff (322 words)
Individuals who assault or attack emergency workers face longer jail terms as a new law comes into force.
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Dearer travel pushes inflation higher (461 words)
The retail price inflation rate was at a six-month high, official figures show.
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Parents get right to bereavement leave (395 words)
Working parents who lose a child will soon be entitled to bereavement leave.
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Crystal balls a little cloudier on economy (187 words)
Nine months into the year and forecasters are more pessimistic about 2018 economic growth.
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Progress — but more to do on equality (364 words)
The 2018 TUC Equality Audit shows that unions are making progress in the fight for equality — but there’s still more work to do
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Issue 37
Earnings growth puts on summer spurt (654 words)
Earnings showed faster growth in July, the latest official figures show.
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Employers need to become age-friendly (374 words)
Employers should be more age-friendly and inclusive of those over 50, including doing more to tackle age discrimination in the workplace, the Centre ... Subscribers only
Fifth consecutive fall in factory output (328 words)
Factory output is in the doldrums, latest official figures show.
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Unemployment down for over 50s and overall (622 words)
A fall in the number of unemployed older people accounted for much of the latest fall in unemployment, official figures reveal.
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Issue 36
Childcare costs outpace wage growth (536 words)
Working parents with children under five have seen nursery fees rise three times faster than their wages over the past decade, according to a TUC ... Subscribers only
More battles against NHS subsidiaries (645 words)
Public services union UNISON has called on Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust to halt its plans to tranfser hundreds of NHS staff over to a wholly ... Subscribers only
Fall in value of inward company takeovers (437 words)
The value of inward merger and acquisitions (M&A) fell sharply in the second quarter of 2018, while the value of outward M&A was at its ... Subscribers only
GMB fights Arco over derecognition (199 words)
The GMB union is in a battle with an employer in the North West over its union-busting plan.
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Power to the people (372 words)
Achieving better wages and working conditions as part of a new growth model will require a renaissance of collective bargaining and a growth in union ... Subscribers only