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Workplace Report September 2024
Pay and prices Pay View Cost of living – News Bargaining Pay Europe Equality Organisation
– Law in action Contracts Discrimination Redundancy Dismissal – Features Labour’s public sector pay rises: will they end the crisis? Leave for carers: how the new right will work
Editor's Note: Pay may have overtaken inflation, but bumps lie ahead (221 words)
The story of the UK economy remains a tale of enormous inequality. While pay is still growing (page 4), the lives of those lowest paid workers - hit ...
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Pay and prices
Pay still beating inflation – but gap narrows (319 words)
Pay deals reported to the LRD averaged 5.6% in July for the lowest paid, the highest figure since December 2023. The rises achieved by most other ...
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Payline: median pay deals (110 words)
Percentage increase for those on the lowest basic rates, calculated on a 3-monthly basis. ... Open access
Average weekly earnings (110 words)
Source: ONS average weekly earnings monthly survey data ... Open access
Average weekly pay by occupational group (50 words)
Source: ONS: ASHE 2023 figures increased by average weekly rises in earnings ... Open access
News
Bargaining news: Featured Payline deals (409 words)
The summer months are a little quieter for bargaining, most public sector pay offers have yet to be accepted or are backdated to April and many other ... Subscribers only
Pay: GMB win 25% pay deal from outsourcing giant Compass Group (238 words)
Hundreds of hospital workers at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow have won a pay rise worth up to 25% after strike action. The workers are employed ... Open access
Pay: Unite wins raises worth 8.3% on average for thousands at Gatwick (213 words)
Unite the Union has secured an average pay rise of 8.3% for more than 4,600 workers employed by 11 different companies at Gatwick Airport in recent ... Open access
Pay: Scotland refuse workers suspend strikes for new offer (380 words)
Bin strikes across 26 councils in Scotland have been suspended as workers in Unite, UNISON and GMB ballot on a new pay offer. Refuse workers have ... Subscribers only
Europe: German deals up this year but still “a major need to catch up” (428 words)
On average, collective negotiations produced a 5.6% increase in pay in Germany in the first six months of 2024, well above average inflation for the ... Subscribers only
Pay: Low Pay Commission new remit (407 words)
The Government has given the Low Pay Commission a new remit that asks them to consider the cost of living in its calculations of the National Living ... Subscribers only
Europe: Polish minimum wage to go up by 9.1% in a year (182 words)
The Polish minimum wage will increase by 7.5% in January 2025 from the current 4,300 zł (£859) a month to 4,626 zł (£923) if, as expected, the ... Open access
Pay: Union recommends ‘fair’ deal to members to end long-running pay dispute (379 words)
Train drivers and the UK government have reached a deal that could end more than two years of conflict between rail operators and unions. The ... Subscribers only
Equality: Strike while staff are ‘pushed to breaking point’ (205 words)
Unite the Union staff working for the University and College Union (UCU) have today announced they will take continuous strike action in an ... Open access
Equality: Record high for BME people in insecure work (418 words)
New TUC analysis shows that the number of BME people in insecure work has reached a record high of 878,800. This includes zero-hours-contracts, ... Subscribers only
Organisation: First talks on Labour’s plans (202 words)
Angela Raynor, Deputy Prime Minister and Business Secretary, convened a meeting with trade unions and business leaders in a meeting on 14th August 202 ... Open access
Employment Law (504 words)
Ms Adekoya and her colleagues accepted voluntary redundancy from Heathrow Express Operating Company (HEOC) in June 2020. Their contracts of ... Subscribers only
Employment Law (543 words)
Royal Parks Ltd (RPL) manages eight London parks. It had around 160 direct employees, mainly in office roles, to whom it paid the London Living Wage ... Subscribers only
Employment Law (541 words)
Ms Parmar was a Head of Service within Leicester City Council (LCC). She is of Indian origin. There were poor relations between Parmar’s service ... Subscribers only
Employment Law (642 words)
Mr Zaluski, who is of Polish origin, worked for NSL as a civil enforcement officer in Wandsworth. In January 2020 he took unauthorised leave to go to ... Subscribers only
Employment Law (435 words)
Mr Valimulia was a liaison officer for charity the Al-Khair Foundation (AKF). He worked from home in Bolton, fundraising in the community. AKF ... Subscribers only
Employment Law (578 words)
Mr Clifford began working for IBM UK Ltd in 2001. He became unfit for work and in 2012 he raised a grievance claiming disability discrimination and ... Subscribers only
Employment Law (530 words)
Mr Ahmed had a blood condition called PNH, and depression. He was employed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). ... Subscribers only
Employment Law (523 words)
Mr Bugden was employed from 1994 to 2019 as a postal delivery worker. He had long-term health conditions including anxiety and depression, migraines ... Subscribers only
Features
Labour’s public sector pay rises: will they end the crisis? (1,957 words)
In a marked change of tone from the past two years, the new Labour government has moved swiftly to end the junior doctors’ strike and make ... Subscribers only
Leave for carers: how the new right will work (1,166 words)
For the estimated 2.3 million employees in England, Wales and Scotland who juggle work with caring, the new right to unpaid carer’s leave is a real ... Subscribers only