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Civil servants seek new national framework (478 words)

The largest civil service union, PCS, is moving forward with its claim for a new national framework on pay and conditions. The union has ...

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures (218 words)

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

Prices (59 words)

September 174.6 1.7 2.3 ...

Other pay analysts (30 words)

Confederation of British Industry (manufacturing) (three months to Sept. 2002) 2.6% ...

Average earnings indices (155 words)

July (r) 129.6 4.4 4.6 4.2 4.1 5.8 ...

Inflation forecasts (41 words)

RPI forecasts (and underlying inflation - excluding mortgage interest payments) ...

Latest figures for full-time weekly average earnings (29 words)

all workers £464.10 ...

Home Office staff get 6% or £675 minimum increase (620 words)

Home Office ...

Audit Commission improves London weighting (172 words)

Audit Commission ...

Pay deals in brief (533 words)

Agreement % increase date number covered hours holidays ...

Unions begin to exploit the right to accompany (2686 words)

In September 2000, workers gained, for the first time, the legal right to be accompanied when attending disciplinary or grievance hearings. While this right ...

Shift pay update (3209 words)

Extent of shift work ...

TUPE transfer rights - the latest developments (1209 words)

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (TUPE) were intended to guarantee, to workers whose jobs were transferred to a new employer, ...

Tribunal procedures (229 words)

A number of recent Court of Appeal rulings have laid down rules of procedure that tribunals must follow. Some of these arise because of ...

Tips for service (74 words)

The European Court of Human Rights has confirmed that employers have the right to pocket tips for service where they are paid by credit ...

Overtime bans (257 words)

The Privy Council (the court that acts as a final court of appeal for many Commonwealth member states) has held that there can be ...

Workplaces inspected only once every 20 years (277 words)

Workplaces are likely to be inspected only once every 20 years, according to a new report on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). ...

HSE inspector backs improvement notices (200 words)

Safety reps in Britain should have the power to serve enforcement notices as reps in Australia do, according to a new report published by ...

Research finds stress doubles heart risk (102 words)

People who have stressful jobs could be twice as likely to die from heart problems, new research from Finland shows. ...

Back injury compensation (160 words)

A nurse has been awarded £420,000 compensation from an NHS trust after poor staffing levels and inadequate equipment caused her disabling back condition. ...

Bosses' fears (70 words)

Top bosses are driven by fear when it comes to health and safety, but few deal with it as a boardroom issue, according to ...

HSE prosecutions (222 words)

Rail contractors were fined £90,000 last month after a worker was severely burned, and fell 15 feet from a scaffold tower, fracturing his skull. ...

HSE monitor (560 words)

Agriculture ...

Surge in disability cases exposes extent of workplace discrimination (301 words)

Disability discrimination is "alive and well", says the Disability Rights Commission's (DRC) annual review. The report highlights the massive 56% increase in legal cases ...

NHS takes lead on mental health at work (192 words)

The Department of Health has issued guidance on mental health and employment in the NHS, with a clear message that discrimination against people with ...

Older men resist change in workplace culture (295 words)

Workplace culture is still being defined by a generation of corporate men who do not recognise the need for flexibility to care for children, ...

TUC wants more trustees in network (113 words)

The TUC is calling for more trade union pension trustees to join its 600-strong network and benefit from the advice and information available from ...

Ombudsman attacks poor pensions protection (254 words)

The Pensions Ombudsman, the legal watchdog, has attacked restrictions on the type of complaints he can investigate and which he says limit his ability ...

Government plans employer taskforce on best practice (388 words)

In the run up to publication of the pensions green paper, the government has called on employers to join a taskforce to provide a ...

German workers look forward to their Christmas bonuses (337 words)

Details of Christmas bonuses in key agreements have recently been published by the WSI, part of the research and education arm of the DGB, ...

Spanish public sector breaks inflation forecast (239 words)

For the first time since the centre-right PP government took power in 1996 public sector workers in Spain have reached a pay settlement which ...

Austrian unions agree above-inflation deals (342 words)

Austrian unions and employers have reached rapid agreement on a series of pay settlements which include increases above current inflation levels. ...