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Fact Service May 2019
Issue 22 (30/05/19) - Forty executives share £113m in remuneration; Employers must publish disability pay gap; Industrial stoppages at a low level in 2018; Parliament restoration - ban blacklist firms; Avoid sun damage and prevent cancer
Issue 21 (23/05/19) - Named and shamed over gender pay; Homeworking on rise and more want it; RPI inflation fuelled by energy and petrol rises; LGBT people suffer harassment at work; Blacklisted trade union members win compo
Issue 20 (16/05/19) - TUC checklist on mental health; Unemployment rate for women hits record low; Majority feel stressed or anxious about work; Average earnings growth dips sharply
Issue 19 (09/05/19) - Forty executives share £82.5m in remuneration; Shareholders fail to flex their muscle over pay; Epilepsy - an uncomfortable truth; Care workers strike over pay; Employers urged to sign disability pledge
Issue 18 (02/05/19) - Average package of £1.92 million for 40 directors; AI and automation will have mixed impact; Sorry state of the nation: privilege gap is wide; Increase in those paid below minimum wage
Issue 22
Forty executives share £113m in remuneration (843 words)
Millions of people take part in the National Lottery every week. However, some top executives effectively win the lottery every year without parting ...
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Employers must publish disability pay gap (346 words)
The government must make it compulsory for employers to publish their disability pay gaps, the TUC said at its annual disabled workers’ ... Subscribers only
Industrial stoppages at a low level in 2018 (316 words)
There were 273,000 working days lost due to labour disputes, the sixth-lowest annual total since records began in 1891, according to the Office for ... Subscribers only
Parliament restoration — ban blacklist firms (247 words)
A shadow cabinet minister has called for construction firms that have been involved in blacklisting to be banned from bidding for work on the £4 ...
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Avoid sun damage and prevent cancer (596 words)
The number of people in the UK diagnosed with or dying from the deadliest form of skin cancer because of sun exposure at work is revealed in a new ... Subscribers only
Issue 21
Named and shamed over gender pay (414 words)
Forty seven organisations that have failed to report their latest gender pay gap following the March and April deadlines have been named and shamed ... Subscribers only
Homeworking on the rise and more want it (389 words)
There are 374,000 more employees working from home than 10 years ago, a new TUC analysis marking Work Wise UK’s National Work from Home Day shows. ... Subscribers only
RPI inflation fuelled by energy and petrol rises (446 words)
Higher energy bills and dearer petrol contributed to a significant rise in retail price inflation, official figures show.
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LGBT people suffer harassment at work (478 words)
Nearly seven in 10 lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people report being sexually harassed at work, according to new research published by the ... Subscribers only
Blacklisted trade union members win compo (444 words)
Fifty three trade union members have won compensation totalling £1.9 million after major construction firms admitted that they had been unlawfully ... Subscribers only
Issue 20
TUC checklist on mental health (536 words)
As part of mental health awareness week, the TUC has produced a checklist of five ways to improve mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
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Unemployment rate for women hits record low (655 words)
The unemployment rate for women fell to a record low, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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Majority feel stressed or anxious about work (257 words)
Two-thirds of workers (66%) have felt stressed or anxious about work over the past year, a new report from workplace experts Acas reveals.
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Average earnings growth dips sharply (655 words)
The labour market may be tight with unemployment down again, but that fact is not reflected in official earnings data, which show a fall in ... Subscribers only
Issue 19
Forty executives share £82.5m in remuneration (778 words)
With the company reporting season in full flow, the number of the £1 million-a-year or more remuneration packages given to top executives at FTSE 350 ... Subscribers only
Shareholders fail to flex their muscle over pay (526 words)
Measures introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government giving shareholders the power to tackle excessive executive pay have ... Subscribers only
Epilepsy - an uncomfortable truth (340 words)
People with epilepsy still face discrimination at work. That is is the uncomfortable finding of an Institute of Employment Studies (IES) study.
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Care workers strike over pay (225 words)
Over 650 members of the public service union UNISON employed by the care group Alternative Futures Group (AFG) have been on strike over cuts to their ... Open access
Employers urged to sign disability pledge (482 words)
Businesses need to take urgent action and pledge to tackle the UK’s disability employment crisis.
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Issue 18
Average package of £1.92m for 40 directors (756 words)
A further 40 top executives whose remuneration package last year came to over £1 million feature in the table on page 70.
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AI and automation will have mixed impact (511 words)
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will have a widespread but mixed impact on jobs, new research shows.
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Sorry state of the nation: privilege gap is wide (679 words)
Inequality is now entrenched in Britain from birth to work, and the government needs to take urgent action to help close the privilege gap, says the ... Subscribers only
Increase in those paid below minimum wage (332 words)
In April 2018, 439,000 people were paid less than the hourly statutory minimum wage, a new report from the Low Pay Commission (LPC) finds.
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