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ArticleGovernment extends gender pay reporting requirements
The government has extended its gender pay gap reporting requirements to include large public sector organisations and bonus information.The new regulations will make it mandatory for employers with more than 250 staff to publish the difference in average pay between male and female employees.In July 2015, the government launched a ...
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ArticleRangers Football Club to pay staff living wage
Rangers Football Club will pay all its employees the living wage with immediate effect.On Friday 27 November, the Glasgow-based club’s chairman, Dave King, announced that the decision to offer the living wage had been approved unanimously by the club's board.The Living Wage Foundation's living wage rate is paid on a ...
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ArticlePets at Home to pay all staff national living wage
Pets at Home is to pay all of its employees the national living wage, including those aged under 25.The statutory national living wage, announced by Chancellor George Osborne in the Summer Budget 2015, will come into effect in April 2016. The £7.20 an hour rate is mandatory for all staff ...
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ArticleAsset managers' performance awards to be taxed as income
Autumn Statement 2015: Performance awards received by asset managers will be subject to income tax unless the underlying fund undertakes long-term investment activity.The government is to introduce legislation to determine when performance awards should be taxed as income or capital gains.The move forms part of the government’s Autumn Statement 2015, ...
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Article99% of junior doctors vote in favour of industrial action
Junior doctors in England have voted in favour of industrial action over changes to their contracts, including pay and working hours.Some 99% of the 76% of junior doctors who took part in the ballot are prepared to take industrial action short of a strike, while 98% are prepared to take ...
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Article209,000 jobs pay less than minimum wage
Some 209,000 UK job roles held by employees aged 16 and over in April 2015 paid staff less than the national minimum wage, according to research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Its Low pay, April 2015 survey also found that 115,000 of the jobs are held by full-time employees ...
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ArticleWessex Group gains living wage accreditation
Wessex Group, which employs 400 members of staff, has been accredited as a living wage employer.The building services group’s employees, as well as its cleaners, third-party contractors and suppliers, will all receive at least the hourly living wage rate.The rate is an independently calculated figure based on the cost of ...
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ArticleTotal pay increases by 3%
Total pay, including bonuses, increased by 3% for UK employees between July-September 2014 and July-September 2015, according to research by the Office for National Statistics.Its UK labour market statistical bulletin, November 2015 found that regular pay, excluding bonuses, increased by 2.5%. This is lower than the rate of growth between ...
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ArticleEuropean Court rules on travel as working time case
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the time workers without a fixed or habitual place of work spend traveling from home to their first appointment of the day and from their last appointment of the day to their home to be working time for the purposes of ...
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Article24% disclose performance criteria for on-target bonuses
Less than a quarter (24%) of FTSE 100 organisations disclose the level of performance required to generate an ‘on-target’ bonus but not the full range of performance targets they offer, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).Its report, Sunlight is the best disinfectant, which analyses FTSE 100 organisations’ executive bonus pay-outs ...
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ArticleWomen and Equalities Committee launches pay gap inquiry
The Women and Equalities Committee launched an inquiry on 4 November to inform government strategy on reducing the gender pay gap.The inquiry focuses on how effective government policies to reduce the pay gap will be for women over 40. It will examine whether changes to these proposals could help reduce ...
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ArticleScottish Water receives living wage accreditation
Scottish Water has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation.As part of its commitment, Scottish Water has paid all of its 3,500 employees the living wage since 2011.The living wage rate is an independently calculated figure based on the cost of living. On 2 November ...
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ArticleCamden Council publishes pay gap data
Camden Council has published pay data for its workforce, including analysis of median earnings across pay brackets according to gender, ethnicity and disability.The highest pay variance by gender is 12% across zone one of the council’s level six pay range, where female staff earn a median salary of £57,500 and ...
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ArticleLiving wage increases to £8.25
The living wage rate has increased by 40p an hour from £7.85 to £8.25 as of today (2 November 2015).The London living wage has risen by 25p an hour from £9.15 to £9.40.The increase in the UK living wage rate, which is calculated according to the cost of living, will ...
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Article29 per cent of female workers earn less than living wage
Almost a third (29%) of female workers earn less than the living wage, compared to 18% of males, according to research by KPMG.The research report, which was conducted by Markit using its UK Household Finance Index survey of 1,500 respondents and drawing on the Office for National Statistics’ Annual survey ...
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ArticleLloyds Banking Group and Unilever commit to living wage
Lloyds Banking Group and Unilever have been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation as living wage employers.The employers have committed to paying all staff the living wage rate, which today (2 November 2015) increased to £8.25 an hour and £9.40 in London.Although Lloyds Banking Group already pays its permanent employees ...
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Judge allows Facebook director pay case
A US judge has ruled that a lawsuit regarding the compensation packages received by non-management directors at Facebook can proceed.Directors at Facebook are accused of incorrectly ratifying the increase in non-management directors’ pay.Shareholder Ernesto Espinoza brought the suit in June 2014, arguing that the social media network’s chief executive officer ...
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ArticleMorrisons faces legal action over payroll data leak
Morrisons is facing legal action from a group of employees over a data breach that resulted in the leaking of salary, bank and national insurance details of 99,998 members of staff.The supermarket is facing claims from over 2,000 members of staff after Andrew Skelton, who was a senior internal auditor ...
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ArticleAmazon Prime Now drivers seek employee status
Amazon Prime Now delivery drivers have filed a class action lawsuit against the organisation claiming that they have been wrongfully classified as independent contractors rather than employees and thus denied overtime pay, employee benefits and compensation, and fuel expenses.Four drivers have filed the suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court ...
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ArticleFife Council staff to receive equal pay settlements
Over 1,400 female Fife Council workers are to be recompensed for historic equal pay claims, with some cases dating back to 2006.Trade union Unison reached a settlement with Fife Council outside of court that will compensate employees for historic discriminatory pay practices within Fife Council, and will see affected staff ...