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Minimum wage stays on bargaining agenda (550 words)

The Low Pay Commission will shortly submit its fourth report to the government, recommending future increases in the National Minimum Wage (NMW). The NMW ...

Labour Research Department three monthly pay figures (218 words)

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

Prices (60 words)

November 173.6 0.9 1.8 ...

Other pay analysts (30 words)

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

Average earnings indices (155 words)

September 130.9 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.1 5.6 ...

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 ...

Pay "milestones" at Rural Payments Agency (340 words)

Rural Payments Agency ...

Flexible hours at Smiths Aerospace (130 words)

Smiths Aerospace ...

Inflation rises reflected at Castle Cement (158 words)

Castle Cement ...

Pay Deals in Brief (592 words)

Agreement % increase date number covered hours holidays ...

Surveys suggest work-life balance has yet to make a real impact (3524 words)

A recent survey by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) found that a third of people looking for a job would prefer flexible ...

Survey finds union reps are working hard, under pressure (1667 words)

Union reps, according to a recent TUC survey of 877 of them, have their work cut out. They have a wide range of functions ...

Updated pension scheme report highlights money purchase risk (377 words)

A report comparing leading pension schemes concedes that some employers do provide good money purchase schemes with high levels of employer contributions but these ...

Latest mis-selling scandal ends with £250m in compensation for over 80,000 people (151 words)

The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the government-appointed watchdog, has ordered insurance companies and other financial institutions to pay out £250 million in compensation to ...

Engineering firms step up final salary closures (155 words)

A survey of over 500 manufacturing companies by the Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF) and Aon Consulting published last month found 202 employers had closed ...

Discrimination law update (3560 words)

There have been a significant number of case law developments in disability discrimination since Bargaining Report's last round-up in June last year. We also ...

TUC survey finds slips and trips are still a major hazard (317 words)

Every year thousands of people suffer broken bones and other serious injuries, having slipped or tripped at work, a TUC report has revealed. ...

Another Corus worker is killed (82 words)

An inquest into the death of ISTC community union member Francis Coles, a maintenance engineer killed at the Corus tin plate works in Llanelli, ...

GPMU wins compensation (93 words)

Print union GPMU has won six-figure compensation for two members injured at work. A printing machine assistant had his left hand crushed when a ...

Demolition firm fined (70 words)

Demolition firm Lock Brothers (Plant Hire) has been ordered to pay out over £17,000 after a worker suffered severe head injuries in a workplace ...

Unions argue that fire safety law proposals don't go far enough (251 words)

The TUC has welcomed government proposals that will bring Britain's fire safety laws into line with other workplace safety legislation. ...

The latest from the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (793 words)

These regulations, covering ammonium nitrate, came into force on December 30 2002 and amend The Notification of Installations Handling Hazardous Substances Regulations, 1982 which ...

German public sector workers settle for above-inflation rise (446 words)

Earlier this month Germany's largest union, Verdi, reached agreement on a pay increase for 2,970,000 public sector workers. ...

Belgian unions back national agreement (295 words)

The main union confederations in Belgium have this month backed the national agreement, which was signed by their negotiators in December. ...

Irish pay talks restart (124 words)

Negotiations on a new national pay deal for Ireland, which broke down last month, have now been restarted. ...