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Workplace Report July 2019
Pay in FE colleges - Further education staff have faced a tough pay environment nationally in recent years, but unions have been fighting back at a local level; Board-level representation - Few companies in the UK have acted on new corporate governance rules that make the choice of the appointment of worker-directors a possibility; Latest case law on discrimination
Pay and prices
Sixth 2.8% increase (102 words)
It’s as you were with collectively agreed pay settlements.
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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) (250 words)
Regular pay excluding bonuses. Percentage annual increases
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Full-time weekly average earnings (39 words)
ASHE 2018 median uprated by AWE. ... Open access
XpertHR (19 words)
Median increases for three months to June 2019 ... Open access
Prices (77 words)
1 Retail Prices Index (RPI),
Jan ’87=100 ... Open access
2019 forecasts (39 words)
1 Fourth quarter ... Open access
Bargaining news
Public servants face cap on pay-offs once again (822 words)
An issue that unions hoped had gone away has returned to cloud the horizon for long-serving public servants. HM Treasury consultation has just ... Subscribers only
Tories refuse to fully fund inadequate pay increase for teachers (477 words)
A recommendation from the school teachers pay review body (PRB) for an above-inflation pay award for teachers and school leaders in England has been ... Subscribers only
Contract row blows up at Nottingham College (260 words)
Nottingham College faces weeks of walkouts in September and October after members of the UCU university and college lecturers union announced plans ... Subscribers only
Two million lose out on holiday entitlement (254 words)
One in 14 UK workers are not getting their legal holiday entitlement, a recent TUC analysis reveals.
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Non-teaching college and uni staff face pension threat (374 words)
The government has been consulting on plans to allow universities and colleges in England to opt out of offering the local government pension scheme ... Subscribers only
Proposal for single labour market enforcement body (321 words)
The idea of a single labour marker enforcement body has been put out for consultation by the government, but unions have reservations about the ... Subscribers only
Plan to end one-sided flexibility (247 words)
Hundreds of thousands of flexible workers could benefit from new rights and extra protections if they lose out on work, under proposed government ... Open access
Equality news
BECTU and the arts in Wales tackle lack of diversity (383 words)
More than 25 theatres and arts organisations across Wales are joining together with media union BECTU to address the under-representation of ethnic ... Subscribers only
Analysis shows race still plays a role in pay (312 words)
The latest government statistics on earnings and employment for different ethnic groups show that “race still plays a real role in determining ... Subscribers only
The UK has an LGBT+ pay gap, says LinkedIn (261 words)
The incomes of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or other (LGBT+) professionals in the UK are on average 16% less than their heterosexual peers, ... Subscribers only
Learning and training news
Disturbing reduction in training (316 words)
A sharp drop in workplace training is revealed in research from the TUC.
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Recruitment and organisation news
Boots pharmacists prepare for collective bargaining (312 words)
Pharmacists at the Boots chemist chain will now have their pay and conditions covered by collective bargaining and will be consulted on other key ... Subscribers only
GMB in Seventh Heaven (141 words)
Dancers and staff at Glasgow lap-dancing venue Seventh Heaven will now have their pay and conditions covered by collective bargaining after the GMB ... Open access
Unite deal in Never Never land (112 words)
General union Unite has secured a recognition deal with the Peter Pan Nursery in Wrexham, North Wales. The agreement came after a 22-month battle by ... Open access
European news
Real-term pay increases in German banking and retail (352 words)
The German services union Ver.di has agreed pay increases in two major industries, retail and banking, which both deliver real terms increases this ... Subscribers only
Italian unions at Lamborghini win enhanced benefits for staff (386 words)
Italian metalworking unions have signed a new company deal at the sports car maker Lamborghini which provides a high level of benefits.
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Gender pay gap in France (110 words)
New earnings figures — broken down by industry-level collective agreement — show the extent of the gender pay gap in France.
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Pay on the rise in Spain (104 words)
The average pay increase in Spain in the first half of this year was 2.2% compared with 1.6% in the same period in 2018, according to the latest ... Open access
Mental health workers in Netherlands get 9.6% (89 words)
Some 89,000 workers in mental health provision in the Netherlands have received a pay increase worth a total of 9.6% over 30 months for a worker on ... Open access
Law - Discrimination
Discrimination - the law (854 words)
Discrimination law is found in the Equality Act 2010 (EA10). The EA10 lists nine “protected characteristics”: age; disability; gender ... Subscribers only
Shared Parental Pay and Leave doesn’t discriminate against men (1,143 words)
The Court of Appeal (CA) has ruled that it is neither direct nor indirect sex discrimination to pay only Statutory Shared Parental Pay to men taking ... Subscribers only
No religious discrimination in shift pattern (1,029 words)
Mr Harvey is a practising Seventh Day Adventist whose faith requires him to observe the Sabbath. This means no work from sunset on Friday to sunset ... Subscribers only
Police force unlawfully blocked transfer of PC with hearing loss (540 words)
Ms Coffey is a police officer in the Wiltshire Constabulary with mild hearing loss. It has never caused her problems at work.
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Appeal hearing not too late to reveal disability (403 words)
Ms Baldeh lost her job as a housing association support worker after completing her six-month probationary period. The reasons for dismissal included ... Subscribers only
No discrimination against teacher with writing pain (495 words)
Mr Ahmed has dyspraxia and is disabled under the Equality Act 2010 (EA10). ... Subscribers only
Health & safety news
Dire conditions suffered by sleep-in care workers (362 words)
Care workers “sleeping-in” on overnight shifts are enduring shocking conditions, with some having to bed down in offices or on dirty mattresses ... Subscribers only
Convention ‘a major step forward for labour rights’ (193 words)
Unions have welcomed the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO’s) adoption of a new convention on violence and harassment in the world of work. ... Open access
GMB calls for more prosecutions (133 words)
General union GMB has called for arrests over attacks on emergency workers to be matched by prosecutions, tougher sentencing and culture change. Its ... Open access
Guidance on air pollution (170 words)
The Trade Union Clean Air Network (TUCAN) marked Clean Air Day on 20 June by publishing new guidance on air pollution for union reps. The national ... Open access
MPs call for ‘urgent action’ two years on from Grenfell (106 words)
The government has been “far too slow” in reforming the building and fire safety regime and is still not doing enough to remove dangerous ... Open access
Health & safety - HSE Monitor
Rise in number of workers killed in the workplace (456 words)
The number of workers killed in incidents at work rose to 147 in 2018-19, according to provisional figures released by the Health and Safety ... Subscribers only
Remove killer from schools (333 words)
The Joint Union Asbestos Committee (JUAC) has called for “serious action” after it was reported that the Department for Education (DfE) has ... Subscribers only
Sign up to enforce health and safety standards (216 words)
The HSE has called on councils to sign up to a statement of commitment to deliver “their legal duty as enforcers of workplace health and safety” ... Open access
New HSE chief executive (67 words)
Sarah Albon has been appointed the new chief executive of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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Features
College unions take local route to national bargaining on pay (3,204 words)
Neglected and underfunded, further education staff have been denied reasonable pay increases for years. In the English colleges, unions have stepped ... Subscribers only
Workers in UK still absent from the company boardroom (2,064 words)
The possibility of worker directors in UK companies has been given a boost. But few companies seem likely to take this path and so far the experience ... Subscribers only