Pay and prices

Pay and prices (429 words)

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures ...

Features

Subdued pay round with settlements at 3% (828 words)

In spite of indications that the demand for labour is growing, the general level of pay settlements among agreements included in our survey this ...

Low inflation and high pound are key influences in pay round (6930 words)

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Stress and working time are among key legal challenges for unions (798 words)

There have been a number of important legislative changes over the last year as well as key developments in case law on stress (see ...

Recognition law finally takes effect (792 words)

The last 12 months have seen major changes to employment law. Most significant, from a trade union perspective, is the new law on union ...

Some good news for women and disabled workers (845 words)

There were mixed results for equality campaigners this year with women workers benefiting from new maternity rights and protection for part timers while progress ...

Success for unions in part-time workers' case (816 words)

In one of the key legal developments during the year there was welcome news at last for thousands of mainly women part-time workers when ...

Ford and postal workers show way forward on hours (1261 words)

Although the number of deals on cuts in working hours were at a similar level to last year some major agreements were involved this ...

Transport sector still shows lowest basic holidays despite improvements (1272 words)

Agreements in the transport and communications industries feature among those improving holiday entitlement this year, although the sector still accounts for all those workers ...

Negotiators yet build on new parental leave rights (759 words)

New rights to unpaid parental leave came into effect last December but there are so far few deals to improve on the basic entitlement ...

Late settlements (639 words)

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Agreements summary (20078 words)

The following section of the Bargaining Report Special Issue - pages 25-46 - gives a summary of key details in around 600 pay settlements ...