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ArticleEHRC confirms extra six months for pay gap reporting
Just weeks after the government signalled that employers would not be penalised for failing to submit their gender pay gap data, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has now confirmed that enforcement for non-reporting will be suspended for six months.The suspension - due to the impact of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) ...
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ArticleUber loses 'workers’ case
The Supreme Court has announced today (19 February) that drivers operating for taxi-hailing company Uber can indeed be legally defined as workers - with all the employment rights this accords them.The longstanding court battle, which was first launched in the UK in 2016, could now have a significant impact on ...
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ArticleAmazon accused of breaking employment terms
Amazon is accused of cancelling workers shifts at the last minute and leaving agency workers with no guarantee of pay for 20 hours’ work per week – both of which breach the organisation's own employment policies.The practice has been called out by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which has claimed ...
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ArticleDebt default fuels growth in international pensions
Sovereign country debt defaults plus a desire by employers to improve the benefits packages of expats and foreign workers on local contracts has seen a huge rise in international pensions, according to a new report.Willis Towers Watson’s International pension plan survey reported a 6% rise in the number of International ...
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ArticlePay increases hit by falling employer confidence
Data published by XpertHR today (18 February) has found average pay increases are struggling, with pay freezes the more likely outcome facing many employees.The analysis of data for the three months to end of January revealed the median basic pay award was just 1%, while pay freezes accounted for a ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Standard Chartered Bank to discuss how reward should be redefined post-Covid
Susan Tew, global diversity manager at Standard Chartered Bank, will explore the changing face of reward in light of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic at the Employee Benefits Insights 2021 event.Employers will learn how extreme challenges can drive a redefinition of the way businesses work, and how to achieve positive employee-endorsed ...
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ArticleTesco prevented from using 'fire and rehire' tactics at Livingston warehouse
Retail trade union Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) has won a court case preventing Tesco from moving staff at its Livingston distribution centre onto new contracts, in what the union described as a ‘fire and rehire’ tactic.The judgment from the Court of Session in Edinburgh means that ...
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ArticleHarrogate Council becomes living wage employer
Harrogate Borough Council will now become a living wage employer, after a last-minute amendment to its annual budget was approved by councilors.The amendment was proposed by councillor Philip Broadbank, after learning existing budget plans would see some employees working on what he called “poverty pay,” - potentially forcing many to ...
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ArticleAstraZeneca boss and staff to receive same pay rises
Pascal Soirot, CEO of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, will receive the same 3% pay rise as the rest of his staff.Despite the company's ongoing success, including seeing its share price jump by 11% after the World Health Organization approved its Covid-19 (Coronavirus) vaccine, the boss’s base salary will increase from £1.29 ...
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ArticleGovernment waives IR35 penalties for 12 months
The government has published new guidance about how it will support organisations seeking to comply with upcoming off-payroll (IR35) changes.The document confirmed it will be mandatory for employers to assess a contractor’s employment status for tax purposes, and that those that do not will be fined.But it gives many businesses ...
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Article100,000 workers get early access to pay
The employees of more than 3,000 small- and medium-sized businesses will now be able to access up to 50% of their wages in advance, thanks to a partnership between two technology providers.York-based software company, RotaCloud – which already supplies employee scheduling/management solutions to the likes of Subway Sheffield Hallam University ...
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ArticleDelta Security Management to pay living wage
Security guard firm Delta Security Management has become the latest organisation to be recognised as a living wage employer.Accredited by the Living Wage Foundation, the company based in Crawley, West Sussex, will now pay its 10 full-time and four part-time staff at least £9.30 per hour. This is the outside-London ...
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ArticleTribunal rules against pay deductions for sub-standard work
An employment tribunal has ruled that a law firm was not entitled deduct money from one of its consultant solicitors because it was unhappy with the quality of their work.Alastair Dobbie, a consultant at London-based Feltons, first raised the case in 2017 (including for unfair dismissal) after claiming deductions were ...
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ArticleCancer Research UK publishes gender pay gap report
Cancer Research UK has reduced its mean gender pay gap to 15%. The figure, based on a snapshot of employee pay taken on 5 April 2020, represents a significant improvement. The report showed its average gender pay gap was down from 18.7% in 2019 - a drop ...
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ArticlePoll: Two-thirds of employers do not link pay and bonuses to social responsibility goals
Employee Benefits poll: Two-thirds of employers do not link pay and bonuses to social responsibility goals.According to the latest Employee Benefits straw poll, 66.67% of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers have no scheme under which employees are rewarded through pay rises or bonuses for meeting corporate responsibility targets.However the other third of respondents ...
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ArticleBritish Gas workers strike over changes to pay and conditions
More than 7,000 workers at British Gas have staged the first of three planned four-day strikes today in protest over its ‘fire and rehire’ policy that sees staff having to accept pay cuts and cuts to benefits.According to the GMB union, which is coordinating the strikes, British Gas owner Centrica ...
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Poll: Has your organisation implemented pay cuts as a result of the pandemic?
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ArticleKavitha’s keynote: The proof is in the pay packet
Last week, I mentioned that many employers had been forced to make tough decisions in order to stay in business as a result of Covid-19 (Coronavirus), including reducing the pay packet of individuals at their organisations and consequently pushing some staff into serious financial difficulty.Indeed, as we reported earlier this ...
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Poll: Has your organisation implemented pay cuts as a result of the pandemic?
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ArticleEffective Consumable Solutions (ECS) becomes a real living wage employer
Doncaster-based Effective Consumable Solutions (ECS), has become the latest employer to become a real living wage employer.The remanufacturing organisation, which provides green copier and printer consumables solutions, has now committed to paying all of its employees a minimum salary of £9.50 per hour, the living wage benchmark set for employers ...