News – Page 148
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Deloitte to discuss gender pay gap reporting at Employee Benefits Live 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Emma Codd (pictured), managing partner for talent at professional services organisation Deloitte, will discuss recommendations and practicalities around gender pay gap reporting at Employee Benefits Live 2017.The session, titled ‘Gender pay gap reporting: getting it right’, will form part of the HR strategy conference stream on Tuesday 10 October.During ...
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ArticlePoll: 55% believe the public sector pay cap should be lifted
Employee Benefits poll: More than half (55%) of respondents think the public sector pay cap should be lifted for all public sector employees.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 55 responses, also found that 35% of respondents believe the 1% cap on pay rises for public sector staff should ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid looks at gender pay reporting
The can of worms is open and wiggling across my desk. Gender pay gap reporting has forced the Higher Beings to look more closely at pay, and although it is not published yet, I can tell you the results of our report are shocking.However, the real problem is not so ...
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Article57% of retail employees are unhappy with their pay
More than half (57%) of retail employees are unhappy with their pay, with average advertised salaries for retail positions of £29,042 a year, according to research by Adzuna.Its analysis of employment satisfaction levels across 1,000 UK employees also found that 55% of respondents in the teaching profession are unhappy with ...
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ArticleBBC to align median pay for off-air journalists
Media organisation the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has agreed to align median pay for off-air journalists who work at its BBC World Service and BBC Monitoring businesses with employee counterparts who are based at BBC Network News.The pay increase, which will be backdated to 1 August 2017, will apply to ...
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ArticleEmployment tribunal rules in favour of Addison Lee drivers in worker-status case
The Central London Employment Tribunal has ruled that three drivers working for car and courier organisation Addison Lee are employed as workers rather than independent contractors, and are therefore entitled to employment rights such as the national minimum wage and holiday pay.Lang, Olszeski and Morahan v Addison Lee, involved three ...
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ArticleCadbury agrees two-year pay deal and enhanced maternity pay for 1,300 UK staff
Cadbury has agreed a two-year pay deal and enhanced maternity pay package at three of its UK sites, covering approximately 1,300 employees.Employees at the confectionary manufacturer's Bournville, Chirk and Markbrook sites will receive a backdated 3.2% pay increase for April 2017-March 2018, based on February 2017’s Retail Prices Index (RPI). ...
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ArticleLow Pay Commission recommends actions to reduce minimum wage non-compliance
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has recommended that the government publishes details of organisations which do not comply with national minimum wage legislation at regular timed intervals, for example quarterly or every six months, in order to regularly raise awareness of non-compliance.The recommendation forms part of its Non-compliance and enforcement ...
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ArticleBritish Airways i360 gains living wage accreditation
Brighton-based attraction British Airways i360 has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation.As part of the accreditation, British Airways i360 has committed to pay both its direct employees and third-party contractors at least the voluntary living wage rate of £8.45 an hour.British Airways i360’s accreditation ...
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ArticlePWC reports 12.8% mean ethnicity pay gap
Professional services organisation PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has reported a 12.8% mean ethnicity pay gap for its black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) UK staff as at July 2017, according to its 2017 annual report.The organisation, which has published its ethnicity pay gap data for the first time, also recorded a BAME ...
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ArticleTribunal rules in favour of HMRC in national minimum wage penalty cap case
An Employment Tribunal (ET) has ruled that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is able to issue multiple national minimum wage penalty notices, which can lead to employer penalty fines exceeding the £20,000 per employee cap.The case, Best Connection Group v HMRC, involved employment agency Best Connection Group, which supplied approximately ...
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ArticleGoogle subject to equal pay lawsuit in US
Technology organisation Google is subject to a lawsuit that alleges, in the US state of California, female employees are discriminated against under the organisation's approach to pay and opportunities for promotion.Three former female employees have filed a class action lawsuit accusing the US-based business of paying women less than men ...
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ArticleFujitsu reports a 16.7% mean gender pay gap
Technology organisation Fujitsu has reported a mean gender pay gap of 16.7% as at 5 April 2017.The organisation has reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations and ahead of the submission deadline of 4 April 2018.The regulations require employers with 250 ...
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ArticleTotal pay falls by 0.4% in real terms
Total pay for employees in Great Britain, including bonuses, fell by 0.4% in real terms between May-July 2016 and May-July 2017, according to research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Its UK labour market: September 2017 report also found that regular pay, excluding bonus payments, fell by 0.4% in real ...
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ArticlePolice and prison officers to receive pay rises above 1%
Police officers across England and Wales are to receive a 2% pay award for 2017-2018, and prison officers are to see their pay rise by an average of 1.7%.The pay award for police, effective from 1 September 2017, includes a 1% increase in base pay and a one-off, non-consolidated 1% ...
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ArticleAcas reports a 7.1% mean gender pay gap
Corporate guidance and advice organisation Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has reported a mean gender pay gap of 7.1% for hourly fixed pay at 31 March 2017.The organisation has recorded its snapshot data for 31 March 2017 in compliance with gender pay gap reporting regulations. The data has been ...
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ArticleDavid Hughes: What impact will CEO-to-employee pay ratio legislation have?
The government's tactic of naming and shaming organisations where there is significant shareholder opposition to senior executive remuneration packages raises the possibility of negative publicity for organisations with the largest disparity between executive salaries and workers' pay. It may already have started to take effect, with the average pay of ...
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ArticleCharles Cotton: What impact will CEO-to-employee pay ratio legislation have?
There is no doubt that the continuing polarisation of pay and reward between chief executive officers (CEOs) and employees in the UK has come to a head. According to the latest Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and High Pay Centre research, published in August 2017, for every pound ...
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ArticleStefan Stern: What impact will CEO-to-employee pay ratio legislation have?
In the short term, there will be only a limited impact. We already know that there are some large gaps in pay in many workplaces. It is possible that there will be a few pleasant surprises, particularly as we work our way down the FTSE 250 index and into some ...
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ArticleThomas Cook pilots strike over pay dispute
Thomas Cook pilots who are members of the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) are taking part in a 12-hour strike in a dispute over pay.The 12-hour strike, which commenced at 3am on Friday 8 September and will end at 3pm, relates to 2017 pay negotiations for the pilots.The union is ...