Fact Service March 2019

Issue 13 (28/03/2019) - Thirty-seven directors rake in £101 million


; NHS cervical cancer screening back in-house; Ethnicity pay data just not there; Urgent action needed on NHS staff shortages; Let's talk menopause



Issue 12 (21/03/2019) - Inflation unchanged at 2.5% in February


; Unemployment posts fall at start of 2019; Freight transfer to union buster?
; New Year sees tidy rise in average earnings



Issue 11 (14/03/2019) - Female empowerment; Alexa, add yourself to the shopping basket

; Factory output shrinks but GDP higher


; Big deal boosts foreign takeover value in UK; Holiday pay campaign to raise awareness

Issue 10 (07/03/2019) - The long wait for Women's Pay Day; Discrimination success for civil service unions; Disabled passport aims to get people support; Police colluded in blacklisting



Issue 13

Thirty-seven directors rake in £101 million
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The company reporting season is up and running and the 2018 remuneration packages of top executives in FTSE 350 companies are being published.
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NHS cervical cancer screening back in-house
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The NHS is bringing the administration of its cervical screening programme back in-house following blunders by the private sector group Capita, the ...
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Ethnicity pay data just not there 
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The vast majority of employers — 95% — have not analysed their ethnicity pay gap, with many lacking the data that will enable them to do so.
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Urgent action needed on NHS staffing shortages
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Staffing is the make-or-break issue for the NHS in England. Workforce shortages are already having a direct impact on patient care and staff ...
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Let’s talk menopause
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With women over 50 the fastest growing group in the workforce and the average age for the menopause transition being 51, the CIPD human resources ...
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Issue 12

Inflation unchanged at 2.5% in February 
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Dearer food and alcohol were offset by cheaper clothing and footwear, leaving retail price inflation unchanged, official figures show.
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Unemployment posts fall at start of 2019
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Unemployment is heading south to the 1.3 million mark, latest official figures show.
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Freight transfer to union buster?
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Industrial action on Britain's freight trains is on the cards after the TSSA rail union declared a dispute with its German government owned Deutsche ...
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New Year sees tidy rise in average earnings 
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City bonuses distorted the average weekly earnings data at the start of the year, official figures show.
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Issue 11

Female empowerment
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The UK ranks 13th for female economic empowerment out of 33 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), ...
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Alexa, add yourself to the shopping basket
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Smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home have been added to the list of items monitored by the government to ensure the UK’s measure ...
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Factory output shrinks but GPD higher
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Manufacturing output shrank again in a generally dismal set of economic figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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Big deal boosts foreign takeover value in UK
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Inward mergers and acquisitions (M&A) — foreign companies acquiring UK-based companies — increased notably in 2018 compared to 2017. 
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Holiday pay campaign to raise awareness
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The government has launched its first holiday pay advertising campaign to raise awareness of rights, as part of the modern Industrial Strategy
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Issue 10

The long wait for Women’s Pay Day
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The TUC has said that this year’s Women’s Pay took place on 6 March. That was the day when the average woman started getting paid compared to the ...
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Discrimination success for civil service unions
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Almost 50 civil servants who were discriminated against due to their age or ethnicity have secured over £1 million in compensation from the obdurate ...
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Disabled passport aims get people support
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A new disability passport has been launched by the TUC and the GMB general union to help disabled people who fall out of work or switch employers ...
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Police colluded in blacklisting
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Erroneous information about a trade unionist was passed by the police to a secretive blacklisting operation that resulted in the worker being refused ...
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