Pay and prices

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures (528 words)

Percentage increases on lowest basic rates (by agreements covered) ...

Bargaining news

Police pay in the balance (317 words)

Changes in public service pay have been on the agenda ever since the current Labour government came into office, and this month it is ...

Regional pay (121 words)

Discontent over pay in the Police force has tended to focus on the issue of regional pay and the cost of living. Recently-published regional ...

Features

3% deal at Kraft Foods (148 words)

Salaries for day and shift workers at Kraft Foods were increased by 3% with effect from 1 January 2002. Day workers work a 37-hour ...

Two-tier settlement at Reyrolle (105 words)

Non-manual employees at electrical equipment manufacturer VA Tech Reyrolle get a two-tier pay rise this year. Employees paid less than £20,000 a year receive ...

7% for Brighton bus drivers (93 words)

New rates of pay at Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company represent an increase of 7%. The new 'OPO' drivers' rate (one-person operation) ...

Staged pay deal depends on success (157 words)

Rubber product manufacturer Vitamol has agreed to a staged pay deal including a potential end-of-year lump sum linked to the success of the business ...

Pay deals in brief (1072 words)

Agreement % increase date number covered hours holidays ...

Making the best of redundancy pay and procedures (4395 words)

A downturn in the economy, together with the continuing fall-out from the events of 11 September, mean that redundancies are once more on the ...

Gender pay gap closes but overall pay inequality increases (1595 words)

The slow reduction in the pay gap between men and women continued in 2001, the latest New Earnings Survey shows. But, despite the National ...

Redundancy law - recent developments (747 words)

This month Bargaining Report looks at some key developments in redundancy law covering consultation, selection, pay rights and rights to alternative work. ...

Industrial action (101 words)

Workers on personal contracts have the right to take industrial action against their employers with the same legal protection as applies to other workers, ...

Holiday pay (132 words)

Under the working time regulations workers have the right to 20 days' statutory paid holidays a year and cannot, unless their contract has been ...

Car mileage allowances (77 words)

An employer's refusal to continue to pay car mileage allowances cannot be claimed as an unlawful deduction from wages, under Part 11 of the ...

Unions react angrily to final salary threat (350 words)

Retail group Iceland Frozen Foods is the latest company to propose closing its final salary occupational pension scheme. However, if it goes ahead Iceland's ...

Survey reveals extent of occupational asthma and employers' failure to tackle risks (380 words)

Nearly four in 10 workplaces had employees who developed occupational asthma last year according to a TUC survey of safety reps. ...

Health and Safety Commission sets out criteria for deciding on safety investigations (323 words)

The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has published its new enforcement policy statement, which for the first time sets out specific criteria for deciding ...

Report warns of health risks in UK's long working hours culture (428 words)

A new TUC report has found that more people are working in excess of 48 hours a week than they were 10 years ago. ...

Rail union gets employer to adopt "Union Inspection Notices" (176 words)

The TSSA rail staffs union has negotiated an agreement with Arriva Trains Merseyside that "Union Inspection Notices" (UINs) will form part of the health ...

Cycle helmets deal in Royal Mail (131 words)

Following five cycling deaths in three years, the CWU postal workers' union has reached an agreement with Royal Mail Service Delivery (RMSD) on trials ...

Workplace transport safety consultation (103 words)

The Health and Safety Commission has launched a discussion document on workplace transport safety. Provisional figures for 2000-01 show that 99 people were killed ...

Women managers face wider gender pay gap than average (325 words)

A report by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has revealed that although women now account for 30% of managers in Britain, they still earn ...

Website challenges age discrimination (173 words)

The government has launched a website aimed at ending age discrimination in the workplace in preparation for the new law that will outlaw the ...

Pensions for partners (89 words)

Unmarried partners of civil servants and MPs will be entitled to widow's or widower's pensions from October this year. The change will mean that ...

TUC launches new advice on tackling racism (174 words)

In response to the latest unemployment figures for black and Asian workers showing that racism is still a major problem in Britain's workplaces, the ...

Germany - gardeners accept 3.8% while metalworkers ask for 6.5% (307 words)

The German negotiating round for 2002 has begun with a settlement which dates back to 2001. IG BAU, the union representing 200,000 employees in ...

Public sector gets 5.56% in Italy (287 words)

This month Italian unions agreed a settlement for the around 3.5m employees in the public sector. ...

Corus negotiations break-down in the Netherlands (147 words)

Negotiations between the unions and the steelmaker Corus have broken down after the company only offered a 1.0% increase over 14 months as well ...

Family-friendly deal at Deutsche Bank in Spain (118 words)

Unions have reached an agreement with the German Deutsche Bank which allows employees to take up to six months off work without pay to ...