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Fact Service February 2016
Issue 8 (25/02/2016) - Rise in childcare costs; Discriminatory advertising; Commission ruling favours workers; Public school tie still dominates in top jobs; Trade Union Bill misinformation; Threats to workers' rights from Brexit
Issue 7 (18/02/2016) - Inflation moves upward; Unemployment on downward curve; Vice-chancellors of universities get 3%; Earnings growth going nowhere fast
Issue 6 (11/02/2016) - Minimum wage cheats named and shamed; Restructuring and its effect on well-being; Shopping free for all in England and Wales; Factory output flat at end of 2015; Managers should take lead over well-being; Wake up and smell coffee over dyslexia
Issue 5 (04/02/2016) - Pay gap in black and white - TUC findings; Disgraceful delays over workers' deaths; Council job cuts; Families worse off under Universal Credit; UK economy grows, but annual rate slows; Skill shortages lead to unfilled vacancies; Boost for Boots staff
Issue 8
Rise in childcare costs (507 words)
Working parents are offered a brief respite from steeply rising childcare costs, as the 2016 Childcare Survey from the family and Childcare Trust ...
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Discriminatory adverts (541 words)
Thousands of people could be at risk of being denied jobs and services each year due to unlawful, discriminatory adverts, the Equality and Human ... Subscribers only
Commission ruling favours workers (346 words)
Thousands of workers will now be able to claim commission previously denied them thanks to a successful ruling on a case brought by UNISON member Joe ... Subscribers only
Public school tie still dominates in top jobs (238 words)
The UK’s top professions are still disproportionately populated by alumni of independent schools, according to the education charity the Sutton ...
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Trade Union Bill misinformation (302 words)
The Trade Union Bill is currently in the committee stage in the House of Lords and some Lords on the Conservative benches are freely putting their ... Subscribers only
Threats to workers’ rights from Brexit (415 words)
The workers’ rights in the UK which are underpinned by EU rules — and which would therefore be at risk if the UK votes to leave the EU are ... Subscribers only
Issue 7
Inflation moves upward (510 words)
Retail price inflation rose for the third consecutive month, official figures show.
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Unemployment on downward curve (576 words)
The downward trend in unemployment continues, official figures show.
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Vice-chancellors of universities get 3% rise (266 words)
The gap between university bosses and staff has continued to widen, a new analysis from the UCU university and college lecturers’ union shows.
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Earnings growth going nowhere fast (634 words)
Last year finished as it started, with low growth in average weekly earnings.
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Issue 6
Minimum wage cheats named and shamed (368 words)
More employers who have failed to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage have been named and shamed, by business minister Nick Boles. However, ... Subscribers only
Restructuring and its effect on well-being (468 words)
Restructuring in organisations has a mainly negative effect on the welfare of employees regardless of whether there are job losses, according to a ... Subscribers only
Shopping free for all in England and Wales (282 words)
The government is to hand local authorities the power to extend Sunday opening hours for shops.
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Factory output flat at end of 2015 (310 words)
Manufacturing output was flatlining at the end of last year, latest official figures show.
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Managers should take lead over well-being (244 words)
With mental ill-health one of the biggest public health challenges facing society, there is an overwhelming business and moral case for employers to ... Open access
Wake up and smell coffee over dyslexia (350 words)
A woman with dyslexia has won a disability discrimination case against her employer Starbucks, after she was accused of falsifying documents.
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Issue 5
Pay gaps in black and white — TUC findings (299 words)
The pay gap between black and white workers is at its widest at degree level, a TUC analysis shows.
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Disgraceful delays over workers’ deaths (240 words)
Construction union UCATT has said that it is highly concerned about the delay in bringing charges following the worst fatal accident in the industry ... Open access
Council job cuts (139 words)
Over 25,000 jobs are under threat at 52 councils across Britain as Tory funding cuts hit home yet again.
... Open access
Families worse off under Universal Credit (407 words)
The introduction of Universal Credit will leave working families worse off on average, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.
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UK economy grows, but annual rate slows (500 words)
The UK economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP), edged higher in the final quarter of the year, official preliminary estimates show.
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Skill shortages lead to unfilled vacancies (416 words)
A significant increase in the number of unfilled vacancies resulting from skills shortages is reported in the latest official skills survey for the ... Subscribers only
Boost for Boots staff (158 words)
Chemist chain Boots is increasing the starting rate of pay for customer assistant staff outside of London by 7%, and that of customer assistants in ... Open access