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  • Safespaces becomes accredited real living wage employer
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    Safespaces becomes accredited real living wage employer

    2021-01-13T10:38:59Z

    Yorkshire based disability services and support organisation Safespaces has become a real living wage employer, accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.The organisation, which has committed to paying the real living wage to all employees, chose to implement the standard to aid health and wellbeing, as well as a means of ...

  • Ernst and Young reports 32.4% mean gender and 36.7% ethnicity pay gaps
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    Ernst and Young reports 32.4% mean gender and 36.7% ethnicity pay gaps

    2021-01-13T10:12:13Z

    Professional services organisation Ernst and Young (EY) has reported a 32.4% mean gender pay gap, as at April 2020. It has also voluntarily chosen to report its ethnicity pay gap data, which shows a 36.7% mean difference.The organisation’s median gender pay gap including more than 11,000 employees is 15.3% as ...

  • Colony Tire ordered to pay $152,109 in back wages
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    Colony Tire ordered to pay $152,109 in back wages

    2021-01-13T06:00:04Z

    US automotive organisation Colony Tire has been ordered to pay 248 employees $152,109 (£112,978) in back wages by the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD).The organisation was found to have not included employees' commissions in their regular rates of pay when calculating their overtime hours. By excluding ...

  • Asda reports 8.4% mean gender pay gap
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    Asda reports 8.4% mean gender pay gap

    2021-01-11T10:39:04Z

    Supermarket retailer Asda has reported a mean gender pay gap of 8.4% for average hourly pay as at April 2020.The organisation, which currently has more than 20,000 employees in the UK, reported its data in line with the government’s gender pay gap regulations.The reporting regulations require employers with 250 or ...

  • 20% of staff forced to self-isolate receive no sick pay from their employer
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    20% of staff forced to self-isolate receive no sick pay or wages from their employer

    2021-01-08T11:20:14Z

    One-fifth (20%) of employees who are forced to self-isolate due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic have received no extra sick pay or wages from their employer, according to a poll conducted by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).The research polled 2,231 people in England and Wales who were working, on furlough, ...

  • Mattioli Woods resumes bonus payments
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    Mattioli Woods resumes bonus payments

    2021-01-08T10:34:40Z

    Pensions and wealth management firm Mattioli Woods has restored interim bonus payments for the majority of its staff that were initially put on hold due to the financial uncertainty of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) crisis.In 2020, the organisation cancelled all bonuses that were due to be paid to employees at the ...

  • B&M rewards 30,000 employees with a weeks’ extra pay
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    B&M rewards 30,000 employees with a week's extra pay

    2021-01-08T10:09:20Z

    Retail employer B&M is to reward its 30,000 store and distribution employees with a week's extra pay in appreciation of their hard work.The recognition payment, added to employees' next payslip, is to due to the organisation showing strong financial performance during the third quarter of its financial year. To aid ...

  • Staff at British Gas start five day strike over pay and conditions
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    British Gas employees begin five-day strike over pay and conditions

    2021-01-07T10:21:22Z

    Staff employed at British Gas have begun strike action today (Thursday 7 January 2021) in a dispute over pay, terms and conditions.The strike, which will take place across several locations in the UK in line with government guidelines, is set to last for five days, ending on Monday 11 January. ...

  • Tui UK and Ireland reports 29.3% mean gender pay gap
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    Tui UK reports 29.3% mean gender pay gap

    2021-01-06T12:01:43Z

    Travel organisation Tui UK has reported a mean gender pay gap of 29.3% for average hourly pay as at April 2020.The business, which currently has more than 3,000 employees in the UK, reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap regulations.The reporting regulations require ...

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    UK’s highest paying jobs in 2020 revealed

    2021-01-05T12:20:45Z

    Data modeler roles were the highest paid jobs in the UK in 2020, according to analysis from job site Indeed.Job advertisements for these data experts revealed average salaries of £146,000, just shy of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s salary of £150,000.The research, based on Indeed’s analysis of thousands of job adverts ...

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    Tesco, Pizza Hut and Superdrug flouted minimum wage rules

    2021-01-04T11:56:12Z

    Tesco, Superdrug and Pizza Hut are among the 139 organisations identified by the government as having breached minimum wage rules.According to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), these employers underpaid more than 95,000 workers by a total of £6.7 million.The organisations were investigated between 2016 and 2018, ...

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    Gender pay gap is widest for those aged over 50

    2021-01-04T11:39:53Z

    The gender pay gap between full-time male and female employees is widest for those aged over 50, according to analysis from digital community Rest Less.The analysis Office of National Statistics (ONS) pay data, found that the gender pay gap increases with age: the annual salary of a female full-time employee ...

  • Telegraph Media Group reports 20.5% mean gender and 20.7% ethnicity pay gaps
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    Telegraph Media Group reports 20.5% mean gender and 20.7% ethnicity pay gaps

    2020-12-18T10:30:32Z

    Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has reported a 20.5% mean gender pay gap, as at April 2020. It has also voluntarily chosen to report its ethnicity pay gap data for the third year, reporting a 20.7% mean difference.Due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, gender pay gap reporting regulations have been suspended ...

  • JMK Solicitors increases minimum salary to £20,000 for staff
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    JMK Solicitors increases minimum salary to £20,000

    2020-12-17T12:05:12Z

    Image credit: JMK SolicitorsLaw firm JMK Solicitors has committed to paying its full-time staff a minimum salary of £20,000, exceeding the legal minimum wage requirement of £8.72 an hour for employees over 25.The organisation which employs 60 staff introduced these new pay measures to support its staff and recognise them ...

  • Domino’s Pizza rewards 11,500 employees with recognition bonus
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    Domino’s Pizza rewards 11,500 employees with recognition bonus

    2020-12-17T10:57:42Z

    Pizza restaurant and delivery chain Domino’s Pizza has rewarded over 11,500 employees with a special bonus to recognise them for their hard work during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.All employees who are directly hired by the organisation, including hourly team members, drivers and supply staff will receive a special payment of ...

  • Heathrow introduces 20% pay cuts for staff
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    Heathrow Airport introduces 20% pay cuts for staff

    2020-12-16T10:45:11Z

    British airport Heathrow has introduced pay cuts to deal with the financial ramifications of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The organisation reduced the pay of less than 3% of its staff by 20%, while fewer than 1% of staff have received pay cuts by 25%. Employees negatively impacted will see these pay ...

  • Pinterest agrees to $22 million pay settlement in gender discrimination case
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    Pinterest agrees to $22 million settlement in gender discrimination case

    2020-12-16T06:00:10Z

    Social media organisation Pinterest has agreed to pay a $22.5 million (£16.9m) settlement in a gender discrimination case.In August 2020, Francoise Brougher, former chief operating officer at Pinterest, filed a lawsuit against the organisation, stating that she received less equity in shares than her male counterparts during her first year ...

  • Sainsbury's reports 9.7% mean gender and 0.4% ethnicity pay gaps
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    Sainsbury's reports 9.7% mean gender and 0.4% ethnicity pay gaps

    2020-12-15T10:55:48Z

    Retailer Sainsbury's has reported a 9.7% mean gender pay gap, as at April 2020. It has also voluntarily chosen to report its ethnicity pay gap data for the first time, reporting a 0.4% mean difference.Due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, gender pay gap reporting regulations have been suspended for the ...

  • Maintenance staff at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to receive 4.5% pay increase
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    Maintenance staff at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital to receive 4.5% pay increase

    2020-12-14T10:56:54Z

    Outsourced maintenance staff, incuding electricians and plumbers, at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital have accepted a new pay deal for 2020-21.The deal, which follows negotiations with trade unions Unite and outsourcing employer Serco, will see 50 employees receive a 4.5% pay increase.The pay rise, backdated to 1 April 2020, will ...

  • Lloyds Banking Group cancels bonus payments for senior staff
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    Lloyds Banking Group reports 6.8% mean ethnicity pay gap

    2020-12-11T11:04:42Z

    Lloyds Banking Group has reported a mean ethnicity pay gap for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees of 6.8%, while the BAME bonus gap was 26.3%.The mean pay gap and bonus gap was widest for black employees at the high street lender, at 16.7% and 52.9% respectively.Asian employees still ...