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Parfetts gives staff 4% tax-free bonus
Cash and carry business Parfetts has awarded all of its members of staff a tax-free 4% bonus after achieving a record turnover of £570 million during its last financial year.According to the Greater Manchester, UK-based company, the award follows a series of bonuses paid out at “busy points” in 2020 ...
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FinTrU implements pregnancy loss policy
FinTrU has introduced a comprehensive pregnancy loss policy, which is available to all 750 of its employees.The financial organisation’s initiative caters for both the pregnant member of staff and their partner in the event of a pregnancy loss. It aims to support them by ensuring that they have the time ...
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Shetland Islands Council gender pay gap falls to 5.9%
Shetland Islands Council has announced that its gender pay gap has fallen to 5.9%, having been as high as 11.21% five years ago.The council’s pay gap, which is the difference between the average earnings of men and women, has gradually reduced over recent years, standing at 7.9% in 2017/2018. The ...
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NHS staff to protest over proposed pay rise
NHS staff have announced plans to stage a protest in Portsmouth, UK to demand better pay from the government.The protest, which will take place this weekend, is one of a series of marches set to take place in 35 cities across England on the health service’s seventy-third birthday. It is ...
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Kavitha’s keynote: Breaking the fertility taboo
Despite NHS figures showing that around one in seven couples have problems with fertility, it’s still widely viewed as a taboo topic and one that is very rarely acknowledged in the workplace.However, things are changing. In recent years a growing number of employers have been introducing support for staff who ...
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The Royal Household looks for new recruits
Something for the weekend: Do you feel royally fed up with where you are working? Well, now’s your chance to swap those everyday humdrum office surroundings for the exclusive environments of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, the Palace of Holyrood House and beyond, because The Royal Household is on a recruitment ...
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Rail network staff strike over pay freeze
Multiple rail network staff are striking over a pay dispute involving conductors, ticket examiners and maintenance engineers in the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union.The strikes, which began on 27 June and are due to continue until mid-August, are against private operators due to a two-year pay freeze for 62,000 ...
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Cumbria has the largest pay gap in England
Newly published research has found that Cumbria has the biggest county pay gap in England, with a £500 weekly wage difference between the highest and lowest earnings areas.The study by international payment provider RationalFX involved analysing the median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees in more than 300 local authority ...
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Poll: 23% of employers have cut staff benefits since pandemic began
Employee Benefits poll: Almost a quarter of organisations have either cut or reduced staff benefits since the beginning of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.According to the latest Employee Benefits survey, 23% of organisations reported that they had either cut or offered fewer perks to their employees in response to the global ...
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UK employees work 7.8 hours per week of unpaid overtime
New data has found that UK employees currently work an average of 7.8 hours per week of unpaid overtime, almost a full hour more than the European average of 6.7.A study by the ADP Research Institute titled People at work 2021: a global workforce view revealed that the cost of ...
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CITB employees lodge complaint over furlough pay
More than 100 Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) employees have made a collective grievance against their employer over furlough pay.Problems with the board’s payroll have resulted in some CITB staff receiving too much furlough pay as part of the UK government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and some receiving too ...
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Dundee Heritage Trust becomes living wage employer
Dundee Heritage Trust has become a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer.The organisation, which is an independent charity?that runs the Verdant Works and the Discovery Point museums in Dundee, will join 165 others that have received this recognition.According to the trust, it was heavily affected by the lockdown due to the ...
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Zurich UK ethnicity bonus gap almost doubles
Insurer Zurich UK has revealed a sharp rise in its ethnicity bonus gap for 2021, which has increased to 37%, up from 19.6% in the previous year.The organisation attributes the widening gap to having fewer black and ethnic minority employees in senior roles.Zurich UK's ethnicity pay gap also rose to ...
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Pay awards still fail to meet cost of living
Pay awards have reached their highest level for six months, at 2%, but still lag behind inflation.According to the latest analysis of pay settlement data by XpertHR, the average pay award effective in the three months to the end of May 2021 increased by 0.1 percentage points on figure for ...
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Bolt drivers strike over worker rights
UK Bolt app rideshare drivers are staging a 24-hour strike today (22 June) as a result of a dispute over their worker rights.The drivers, who are part of the App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU), are demanding that the rideshare operator respects their rights following this year’s Supreme Court ruling ...
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ABB launches paid parental leave programme
Technology organisation ABB has announced it will launch a gender neutral parental leave programme in order to foster a more diverse and inclusive culture.The new initiative, which is part of ABB’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2030, will support families by giving parents an opportunity to balance career and family ...
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51% of employers increased pay to meet NLW rise
Half of large employers have had to increase their pay rates to comply with the uplift in the national living wage (NLW), introduced on 1 April this year.According to the latest research from income data specialists IDR, 51% of these organisations reported that they had raised their lowest rate of ...
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Employers can furlough self-isolating employees
Employers can claim from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) for staff who are self-isolating, despite UK government guidance stating it is not what the initiative is intended for.The entitlement was first reported by Politico magazine after emails from civil servants complaining about government guidance were leaked. One email said ...
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Premier Inn employees strike over living wage dispute
Premier Inn staff staged protests in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland yesterday (17 June), asking to be paid the living wage of £10.85 in London and £9.50 across the rest of the UK.The socially distanced protests took place at Premier Inns in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Tenby and Aberystwyth, the ...
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Diageo signs three-year pay deal for Scottish staff
Spirits and beers producer Diageo has agreed to a new three-year pay deal with unions Unite Scotland and GMB Scotland to increase wages with inflation for its Scottish staff.The arrangement, which is set to last until 2024, includes a 3% pay rise covering the last financial year. Wages will then ...