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Pay and prices (420 words)

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures ...

Pay deals (1671 words)

Each month in Pay News Bargaining Report looks at the latest pay deals and recent surveys on pay and related issues. Brief details on ...

Latest developments in redundancy law (690 words)

Occupational redundancy pay ...

Two-year service qualification (164 words)

The House of Lords has recently ruled that the two-year qualification for unfair dismissal claims, which was only finally reduced to one year in ...

Agency workers (90 words)

The government is consulting on plans to bar agencies from demanding a fee from employers when they want to take agency staff on as ...

Sickness benefit (71 words)

The government appears to be planning to tighten up on entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). It is setting up pilot studies in a ...

Victimisation (97 words)

It is unlawful for employers to victimise on grounds of union membership or activity. However, an employer's investigation of the mileage claims of union ...

Equal pay limit (64 words)

The Court of Appeal has ruled that an applicant who successfully claims equal pay with a comparator of the opposite sex can only be ...

References (147 words)

Employers must ensure that the references they provide are reasonable and fair. The case of TSB Bank v Harris [2000] IRLR 157 concerned a ...

Statutory redundancy pay (114 words)

With effect from 1 February 2000 the amount of a "weeks' pay", used in the calculation of statutory redundancy pay has increased from £220 ...

Support for workers in disciplinaries and grievances (1854 words)

Workers will soon have a new legal right to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance procedures. Bargaining Report looks at the law and the ...

Union helps civil service agency address promotion bias (255 words)

Ethnic minority staff at the Radiocommunications Agency (RA) are set to benefit from fairer promotion procedures as a result of a project in which ...

TUC calls for better rehabilitation (317 words)

Every year, 25,000 people, made ill or injured through their work are being forced out of the workforce because not enough rehabilitation programmes are ...

Rail union backs strike over sacked safety rep (209 words)

Earlier this month members of the RMT rail union at Waterloo station voted five to one in favour of strike action in support of ...

Pub managers win working time case (86 words)

Two pub landlords employed by Bass Leisure Retail, backed by the T&G general union, have won a settlement, after a legal case had been ...

Mixed results in stress cases (203 words)

A former Post Office manager, backed by the CWU communications union has been awarded £175,000 compensation for stress in an out-of-court settlement. He had ...

Getting to grips with grievance procedures (1402 words)

Summary ...

Keeping disciplinary procedures up-to-date (2545 words)

Disciplinary and grievance procedures in many workplaces will have to change if they are to keep in line with the new code from the ...

Mis-selling scandals haunt government and private pensions industry (460 words)

The government and pensions industry are still trying to get to grips with three pensions mis-selling scandals. ...

Pay deals (859 words)

Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) parental leave scheme ...

Danes gain sixth holiday week and improved pensions in four-year deal (585 words)

Danish trade unionists have voted four to one in favour a new pay deal which gives them an extra five days' holiday, taking them ...

Settlement in German banks while engineering talks are deadlocked (195 words)

The long running pay dispute in the German banking industry has finally been settled with the union HBV agreeing to sign a backdated deal ...

Draft stakeholder regulations published (267 words)

Earlier this month the government published draft regulations for implementing the new stakeholder pensions which are aimed mainly at people earning between £9,000 and ...

Private sector settlements down (697 words)

Private sector pay settlements have fallen to a mid-point of 2.5% since the beginning of a year, opening up a gap with public sector ...