Workplace Report February 2025

Pay and prices Pay View Cost of living –

Bargaining News Pay News Europe News Organising News Equality News – Law in action Dismissal TUPE Disability discrimination Indirect discrimination –

Features The golden age of logistics, but what about pay? Europe: real pay growth 'everywhere' in 2024 21

Real pay on the rise in UK and Europe (213 words)

The ONS points to UK pay after inflation rising at its fastest rate for more than three years. In real terms (adjusted for inflation by ONS using the ...
Open access

Pay and prices

Paydeals hold at 4%, as inflation dips slightly (313 words)

Pay deals reported to Payline were 4.0% on average in the three months to December 2024, which is consistent with the past few months. Deals in the ...
Subscribers only

Payline: median pay deals (114 words)

Percentage increase for those on the lowest basic rates. Statistics based on 38 deals in the past three months. ...
Open access

Average weekly earnings (110 words)

Source: ONS average weekly earnings monthly survey data ...
Open access

Average weekly pay by occupational group (50 words)

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

News

Featured Payline deals (403 words)

New year settlements continued to be recorded this month with several groups entering the second stage of deals achieved when inflation was higher ...
Subscribers only

Pay: Staff at Transport for Greater Manchester win pay deal (497 words)

UNISON and Unite members at Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have voted to accept a new pay offer worth between 2.3% and 8.9% following ...
Subscribers only

Pay: CEO's receive average annual salary in first three work days (206 words)

The High Pay Centre (HPC) say that FTSE 100 CEOs’ earnings for 2025 have surpassed the median UK worker’s full time annual salary just before ...
Open access

Pay: RMT wins major pay rise for seafarers (301 words)

The RMT has concluded its 14-month dispute at the Royal Fleet Auxiliary following an improved offer from the Ministry of Defence. The workforce is ...
Subscribers only

Europe: RMT wins major pay rise for seafarers (390 words)

An unexpected legal opinion in the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has raised the possibility that the EU’s 2022 minimum wage ...
Subscribers only

Pay: CWU members at Capita receive above-inflation pay rises (415 words)

Despite the outsourcing giant, Capita, declaring a pay freeze for 2024, workers and their union at Capita Tesco Mobile & VM02 have negotiated an ...
Subscribers only

Europe: Metal workers start second round of strikes (181 words)

Metalworker unions from all of Italy’s three main union confederations, CGIL, CISL and UIL, called their members out on strike last month to push ...
Open access

Organising: GIPSIL workers win union recognition (307 words)

Staff working for GIPSIL, a charity based in Leeds, have secured union recognition with Unite following a ballot that achieved 80% turnout and a 90% ...
Subscribers only

Pay: TV workers exploited, new research shows (242 words)

New research by the TV Industry Human Rights (TVIHR) Forum has shown that “illegal or barely legal” working practices are rife in the world of ...
Open access

Equality: TUC highlights how job insecurity can lead to sexual harassment (395 words)

The TUC has commented following a BBC investigation reveals new claims of sexual harassment at the McDonald’s fast food chain. Revelations include: ...
Subscribers only

Pay: PCS staff plan strike at Met (164 words)

After threats from management, over 300 PCS members will take full strike action instead of the previously notified action short of a strike. ...
Open access

Employment Law (533 words)

Ms Alexis was a receptionist/administrator at the Westminster Drug Project (WDP) and has dyslexia. Her employment started in 2010. ...
Subscribers only

Employment Law (572 words)

Mr Douglas was employed driving skip lorries by North Lanarkshire Council (NLC). His employment had started in 1993. ...
Subscribers only

Employment Law (708 words)

Mr De Marchi was employed by London United Busways (LUB) from 2003. He worked from Stamford Brook garage and regularly drove the number 27 bus. His ...
Subscribers only

Employment Law (541 words)

In May 2019 University College London (UCL) advertised for three research administrators. Mr Ireland, who is white, applied. The recruiting manager, ...
Subscribers only

Employment Law (482 words)

The Claimant, known only as JMAR, was a refuse lorry driver in Ibiza. He had been employed by Ca Na Negreta (CNN) since October 2012. In December 2016 ...
Subscribers only

Employment Law (502 words)

Mrs Forsbrook worked at Windsor Clive Primary School. She was disabled by reason of asthma. In February 2020, a formal stage 1 absence meeting took ...
Subscribers only

Employment Law (599 words)

Mr Sutcliffe is an evangelical Christian who worked as a maths teacher. He has strong views rooted in his faith about gender identity and sexuality. ...
Subscribers only

Employment Law (601 words)

In 2016, Ms Brown joined the Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) as a constable. The MDP protects Ministry of Defence sites, and most of its officers ...
Subscribers only

Features

The golden age of logistics, but what about pay? (1,740 words)

The transport and storage sector is growing fast. In 2021, the number of UK business premises classified as transport and storage was 88% higher than ...
Subscribers only

Europe: slowing inflation and pay increases produce real-pay growth in 2024 (1,461 words)

Inflation fell in every EU state in 2024 compared with a year earlier, and with pay rises remaining high in most countries, there was real-pay growth ...
Subscribers only