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Job evaluation for health service pay (522 words)

The use of job evaluation in the design of new pay structures and systems is about to receive another boost with the publication of ...

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures (218 words)

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

Prices (59 words)

October 174.3 1.6 2.3 ...

Other pay analysts (30 words)

Confederation of British Industry (manufacturing) (three months to Oct. 2002) 2.3% ...

Average earnings indices (156 words)

August (r) 130.5 4.3 4.6 4.0 4.0 5.9 ...

Inflation forecasts (32 words)

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

Latest figures for full-time weekly average earnings (30 words)

all workers £464.10 ...

"Benchmark" Ford deal improves pensions and maternity leave (540 words)

Ford Britain and Visteon UK ...

Pay and conditions review for police support staff (186 words)

Police Service ...

Pay Deals in Brief (673 words)

Agreement % increase date number covered hours holidays ...

Pay deals across Europe continue to outpace price increases (3076 words)

Bargaining Report's fourth annual survey of bargaining in Europe finds that the overall level of pay increases is very similar to 2001 at 3.2%, ...

First aid at work - are there enough first aiders and what are they paid? (1476 words)

The Health and Safety Executive recommends that all but the smallest low-risk workplaces should have at least one trained first-aider. Bargaining Report surveyed around ...

Survey finds most employers do minimum for working parents (290 words)

A major survey of employers has found that most organisations are doing no more than the legal minimum to help working parents. ...

Forum provides help on disabled recruitment (98 words)

The Employers' Forum on Disability has launched a briefing paper for employers designed to promote best practice in recruiting disabled people. ...

TUC provides guidance on establishing workplace policies on domestic violence (348 words)

Last month's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was marked by the TUC with the publication of a guide to help ...

Employment contracts - the latest developments (2601 words)

The employment contract is the key to most workers' terms and conditions. Everyone who works in return for wages will have a contract, even ...

Rights to pay during notice (186 words)

The EAT has issued a surprising ruling which means that some employees will lose their right to pay during notice. ...

Tribunal cost warnings (86 words)

Tribunals should not threaten employees with having to pay costs if they lose the claim, unless there is a real risk that this would ...

Bankruptcy and tribunal claims (73 words)

Employees are barred from taking tribunal claims if they are declared bankrupt. It is up to the trustee in bankruptcy whether or not the ...

Minimum wage orders (129 words)

Minimum wage compliance orders (these are orders issued against employers who are not paying the minimum wage) can only be issued in respect of ...

International jurisdiction (149 words)

Tribunals increasingly have to grapple with claims involving contracts signed in one country but performed substantially in another. ...

Discriminatory age limits on employment rights (105 words)

An employment tribunal has again suggested that the cut-off point for entitlement to redundancy pay and unfair dismissal rights, at age 65, discriminates against ...

Delays in dealing with tribunal claims (87 words)

If there are very long delays to do with a backlog of claims at tribunals before an employee's claim is heard then this can ...

Report shows that violence and abuse plague retail sector (213 words)

A shopworker is attacked every hour of the working day, according to a new survey by shopworkers' union USDAW. ...

Local authority inspector numbers fall by a third (236 words)

The number of local authority inspectors has fallen by a third and the number of inspections made was down by a quarter according to ...

Health and safety fines up by 40% (191 words)

BP, London Underground and Corus were among the UK's biggest companies convicted of health and safety offences last year, with fines rising by nearly ...

T&G wants protection for staff as licensing hours are to be relaxed (98 words)

Pub staff will be at risk when licensing hours are relaxed, unless the government acts, warned general union T&G. ...

The latest from the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (948 words)

Copies of all HSE publications are available from HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2WA; tel: 01787-881165. ...

Pensions green paper gets lukewarm reception (802 words)

The government published its pensions green paper last month to a very mixed reaction with many commentators seeing it as a good first step ...