Workplace Report January 2025

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Editor's Note: Pay and the economy: a state of ambiguity (213 words)

Our main feature 'What is the industrial outlook for 2025?' explores the economic landscape for 2025 in more detail. Beneath the more positive ...
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Pay and prices

Pay growth up for first time since 2023 (320 words)

Pay deals reported to Payline for November averaged 4.0% across all agreements. Public sector deals were pulling ahead of the private sector, with ...
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Payline: median pay deals (109 words)

Percentage increase for those on the lowest basic rates, calculated on a 3-monthly basis. ...
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Average weekly earnings (110 words)

Source: ONS average weekly earnings monthly survey data ...
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Average weekly pay by occupational group (50 words)

Source: ONS: ASHE 2024 figures increased by average weekly rises in earnings ...
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News

Featured Payline deals (427 words)

The new year is kicking off with new pay settlements for many after pay campaigns concluded at the end of last year. ...
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Pay: Strike wave analysis reveals extent of industrial action (474 words)

A new report published by Strike Map reveals the extent of industrial action in 2023, a crucial year in the ‘strike wave’. ...
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Organising: Unite secures union recognition at brewery (188 words)

Unite has successfully secured formal recognition for its members at Camden Town Brewery’s Enfield facility. ...
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Pay: New family leave and sick pay rates 2025 (385 words)

The 2025-26 rates for statutory maternity, paternity, adoption, shared parental and sick pay have been published by the government. New rates will ...
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Europe: Rail company signs agreement but dispute goes on (374 words)

France’s state-owned rail company, the SNCF, faced industrial action on 11-12 December despite having agreed a pay deal around two weeks earlier. ...
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Equality: UNISON calls for action to change lives of disabled (461 words)

The disability employment gap shows no sign of ending, with disabled people twice as likely as non disabled people to be unemployed. UNISON is one ...
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Europe: Pay increases tend upwards (173 words)

Average pay increases in Spain have continued to be close to 3.0% throughout the year but this figure is held down by staged deals signed in the past. ...
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Pay: Unions respond critically to government's pay plans (718 words)

Public sector unions hinted at industrial action in response to the government’s plans to limit wage rises to 2.8% next year across the public ...
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Strikes: Seasonal strikes (687 words)

A series of strikes are planned for this year’s holiday season, affecting the commercial sector, transport and government. ...
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Employment Law (590 words)

The employers were three Government departments. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) was recognised for collective bargaining and many of ...
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Employment Law (611 words)

GT Gettaxi Ltd (GTG) operates a mobile app through which members of the public can order a black-cab. Licensed black-cab drivers can sign up to the ...
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Employment Law (529 words)

Mr Zagorski is a consultant radiologist who began working for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust in 2019. He has caring responsibilities for his ...
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Employment Law (530 words)

Mr Connor was a civilian employee of South Yorkshire Police from 2002 until 2020, when he was dismissed for accessing pornography on police computer ...
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Employment Law (410 words)

Ms Deksne was employed by Ambitions Ltd from 2017. In February 2021 she raised a grievance about underpayment of holiday pay and in August 2021 she ...
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Employment Law (478 words)

Miss Carozzi was employed by the University of Hertfordshire. She is Jewish and a Brazilian national. She resigned and made ET claims which included ...
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Employment Law (586 words)

Mr Aliyu was employed from December 2019 as a Tesco delivery driver. In October 2020, he made a complaint of racial and sexual harassment against his ...
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Employment Law (633 words)

Mr Gallagher was a branch manager for McKinnon's Auto and Tyres for five years. In June 2022 he was sick for a few weeks. When he recovered, he was ...
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Features

What is the industrial outlook for 2025? (2,007 words)

Growth is expected to be slow in 2025, with real GDP predicted to increase by just 0.7% according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). That ...
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UK second in the minimum wage table as EU introduces new rules (1,537 words)

Most European states, including the UK have announced their minimum wage rates for 2025, and almost everywhere they are going up by more than ...
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