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Pay and prices (426 words)

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures ...

Pay deals in brief (577 words)

Agreement % increase hours holidays ...

Mixed results for part timers in equality claims (4826 words)

Two key cases involving part-time workers were resolved this year with mixed results (see page 7). However, the legal route to equal pay is ...

Updating discrimination law (500 words)

There has been a substantial number of important cases in recent months across the range of discrimination law. Bargaining Report looks at the main ...

Disability law (708 words)

Defining disability ...

Sex discrimination law (443 words)

Sexual harassment ...

Race discrimination law (493 words)

Taking account of racist incidents ...

Discrimination on grounds of marital status (147 words)

It is unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of marital status, for example, requiring an employee to be single. However, in the case of ...

Age discrimination (95 words)

The House of Lords has upheld a ruling by the Court of Appeal in the case of Taylor v Secretary of State for Scotland, ...

Freedom of movement (82 words)

Under European law workers have the right to freedom of movement to enable them to take up work in another member state. This means ...

Rights to pay (63 words)

Once their doctor certifies an employee as fit to return to work, the employee should be paid. The employer may want further medical checks ...

Working time (65 words)

The EAT has referred to the ECJ a case which questions whether it is possible to exclude all workers in the transport sector from ...

Date when a contract begins (68 words)

A contract runs from the date when the employee starts work not from when it is formally signed, which may be some time later. ...

Survivors' pensions (34 words)

The ECJ has ruled that pensions payable to survivors must be paid at the same age for men and women, as they amount to ...

Calculating a week's pay (66 words)

It is important to know what makes up a "week's pay" because this is used to calculate redundancy pay and the basic award for ...

Notice for teachers (75 words)

Teachers generally can only take leave out of school term time. Therefore if employers can end the contract at the end of the school ...

Health and safety help for employers (174 words)

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a simple guide to help employers identify health and safety problems in the workplace and to ...

Campaign against violence stepped up (245 words)

The TUC this month launched a new advice leaflet on tackling violence in the workplace at a major conference marking the start of a ...

Stress code urged (168 words)

Public services union UNISON has called on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to issue a legally binding code on stress. This follows a ...

Railway safety case consultation (143 words)

The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has published a consultative document on changes to the rail industry's safety regime. ...

Survey shows women are much better off in the union (377 words)

Women in unionised workplaces are much better off in terms of flexible working arrangements, support for family responsibilities and in their employers' commitment to ...

Employers make equality changes to application forms (135 words)

More than half the employers in an Industrial Relations Services (IRS) survey have changed their job application forms in the past two years, mainly ...

Childcare campaign calls for more government support (341 words)

Working parents want employers and the government to do more to help provide affordable childcare, according to the latest survey from childcare charity Daycare ...

Shell ends integration (93 words)

Oil giant Shell is following in the footsteps of its main rival BP Amoco and is abolishing integration in its pension scheme. The £400m-£500m ...

Stakeholder regulations (128 words)

The final regulations were laid before Parliament at the end of last month. They cover much of the detail of how schemes will work. ...

Stakeholder website (60 words)

The TUC has launched a website which provides details about stakeholder pensions and allows visitors to e-mail questions. The site has separate sections for ...

MPs prostest over steel surplus (86 words)

The decision by British Steel, now part of Corus Group, to use up a large part of its pension fund surplus to cut employer ...

Survey still show many ill-informed on pensions (135 words)

A recent survey by MORI for pensions consultants Towers Perrin shows that many people are still badly informed about their pension prospects. While over ...

Pay benchmarking challenge to unions (1815 words)

When officials from the finance union UNIFI went in to negotiate with one of the UK's major high street banks, the HSBC, earlier this ...

Two-year deal at Rolls Royce Motors (223 words)

The new two year deal at Rolls Royce Motors in Crewe, covering approximately 2,600 manual and non-manual workers, provides increases of 3% from 1 ...

Long-term deal for Probation Service (155 words)

The new long-term deal covering 6,500 staff, both manual and non-manual, in ...

Restructuring at Delco (143 words)

A 3.6% pay rise for 900 manual workers at Delco Electronics in May coincided with a reduction to two grades from the previous four-grade ...

National Audit Office agrees 5% (213 words)

Public spending watchdog the National Audit Office has agreed a 5% increase in the minimum of all grades backdated to April. The deal comprised ...

Greek agreement on minimum wage (176 words)

Employers and unions in Greece have signed a new National General Collective Agreement, which covers a range of issues including the level of the ...

Major two-year deals in Germany (625 words)

Over a quarter of a million workers are covered by new two-year pay deals in the main German post and telecommunications companies Deutsche Post ...

3.9% increase at Dutch bank (139 words)

The 36,000 employees of AbnAmro, one of the biggest banks in the Netherlands, have agreed a 3.9% pay increase for this year. The settlement ...

New European directive planned (107 words)

The European Commission has published proposals for a new directive establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment. The directive would cover areas ...

Part-timers' rights on the agenda (729 words)

As new rights for part-time workers come into force in July, the issue of pay and conditions of employment for part timers may well ...