All Pay strategy articles – Page 107
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ArticleBritish Broadcasting Corporation reports mean gender pay gap of 6.3%
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported a mean gender pay gap of 6.3% for average hourly pay as at April 2020.The organisation, which currently has over 20,000 employees, reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations.The reporting regulations require organisations with ...
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OpinionHannah Disselbeck: The Equal Pay Act 50 years on
First one of those annoying lawyerly clarifications, while the Equal Pay Act received Royal Assent in 1970, it did not in fact come into force until December 1975. Equal pay has, therefore, only been provided for under domestic legislation for 45 years, rather than 50. It is, therefore, perhaps more ...
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ArticlePrecision of New Hampton ordered to pay $279,505 in back wages
US manufacturing organisation Precision of New Hampton has been ordered to pay 150 employees $279,505 (£218,289) in back wages by the US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD).The organisation was found to have deducted breaks shorter than 20 minutes from 150 employees' pay as meal breaks. Under the ...
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ArticleAdmiral's chief executive announces £10 million bonus payment to employees
David Stevens, chief executive of Admiral, has announced that all employees are to recieve a share of a £10 million bonus payment to mark his retirement from the business.As a thank-you to all the staff at the inusurance organisation, Stevens and his wife Heather are awarding every full-time employee with ...
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ArticleCo-op increases pay for 33,000 employees
Supermarket retailer Co-op is giving 33,000 of its employees a pay rise aligned to the real living wage, in recognition of their hard work during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The organisation will pay over half of its 60,000 employees the real living wage, which will ensure that they will be paid ...
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ArticleChannel Five reports mean gender pay gap of 15.3%
Channel five has reported a mean gender pay gap of 15.3% for average hourly pay as at April 2020.The organisation, which currently has over 5,000 employees, reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations.The reporting regulations require organisations with 499 or more ...
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OpinionMelanie Stancliffe: The legal landscape of reclassifying workers provides extensive implications
Were it not for the right-sizing of businesses, all eyes would be focussed on the impending Supreme Court’s decision whether Uber’s drivers should still have been classed as workers. The Uber decisions have changed the legal landscape and afforded protection to many off-payroll workers, which the businesses engaging them had ...
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ArticleTop Juice pays back $32,435 in back wages
Australian beverages organisation Top Juice has paid $32,435 (£18,428) in unpaid wages to employees, following on from an investigation by The Fair Work Ombudsman.The employer failed to pay the wages of 18 employees across 16 outlets across eastern Australia. The Fair Work Ombudsman inspectors found that seven of the 16 ...
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ArticleArcadia agrees to full notice pay for staff facing redundancy
Retailer Arcadia has agreed to pay the full salaries of more than 40 head office employees who face redundancy.The at-risk employees, who are based within the organisation's subsidiaries Dorothy Perkins and Topman, were facing a reduced redundancy pay package because they are currently furlough. However, this was vetoed after the ...
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Article23% of employers are collecting ethnicity pay gap data
Almost a quarter (23%) of businesses are now collecting data on their ethnic pay gap figures, an increase of 5% from 2018, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).The study of over 100 employers, published in September 2020, found that the percentage of businesses collecting other employee ethnicity data has increased ...
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ArticleFDM reports median gender pay gap of -2.1%
Recruitment organisation FDM has reported a median gender pay gap of -2.1% for April 2020, an improvement on the -1.7% on the year before.The organisation, which currently has over 4,500 employees, reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations.The reporting regulations require ...
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ArticleSunderland City Council to pay employees the real living wage
Sunderland City Council is to pay all UK employees at least the voluntary living wage, improving base salaries for any of its 3,000 members of staff who fall within this pay bracket.Effective immediately, the organisation will pay lower-level employees at least £9.30 an hour, in line with the living wage ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: The long-term effect of low pay
To increase engagement at work, companies often motivate talent and encourage employees to keep delivering through competitive salaries. When a business fails to provide employees with competitive rates of pay, there are many long-term effects.However, with the UK in a recession, providing this financial benefit is slightly more difficult. Fortunately, ...
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ArticleCaretakers required to manage island near the Great Barrier Reef
The Australian government is looking to employ two sun-seeking caretakers to manage an island just off of the Great Barrier Reef, near Queensland. Working directly for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the best person for the job will be located on the Low Isles, approximately 15km northeast of ...
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ArticleIkea provides full pay for Covid-19 self-isolating employees
Swedish retailer Ikea is to pay its 11,700 UK employees full pay if they need to self-isolate due to the health risks of Covid-19 (Coronavirus), effective immediately.Its employees were previously only entitled to statutory sick pay (SSP) currently set at £95.85 a week. However, Ikea is now committed to paying ...
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ArticleBrazilian Football Confederation introduces equal pay for women’s football team
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) is to introduce equal pay to bring its women’s football team’s pay in line with their male counterparts.The organisation has confirmed that it will pay all of its players equal pay for any games proposed by football organisation FIFA, starting with the World Cup in ...
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ArticleFoster carers win legal battle to claim worker rights
Edinburgh Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that foster care workers are entitled to employment rights and should be categorised as council workers.The court ruling follows an appeal lodged by Glasgow City Council, in the case brought against them by foster care workers Jimmy and Christine Johnstone, who originally filed the ...
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ArticleEssex County Council reports 9.7% mean gender pay gap
Essex County Council has reported a mean gender pay gap of 9.7% for average hourly pay as at April 2019.The organisation, which currently has 43,000 employees, reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations.The reporting regulations require organisations with 250 or more ...
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ArticleBP becomes accredited living wage employer
British gas and oil organisation BP is to pay all UK employees at least the voluntary living wage, improving base salaries for 6,000 members of staff, effective immediately. The organisation will pay its UK-based employees at least £9.30 an hour, in line with the living wage rates set by the ...
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ArticleNorthern Ireland Assembly increases pay allowances for staff
The Northern Ireland Assembly has increased the salary of staff working under the members of the legislative assembly (MLA), aligning their pay with employees who work in the Assembly.Effective from 1 April 2021, grade one staff will see their annual salary rise from £18,00 to £23,490-£24,960, grade two staff from ...