All Pay strategy articles – Page 112
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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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OpinionLouise Skinner and Lee Harding: The government’s Spending Review plans for April
Due to come into force from April 2021, the details of the UK government’s Spending Review 2020 on health, education, transport and public services, were particularly high-profile this year due to the financial impact of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. While NHS staff are expected to receive a pay rise based ...
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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 ...
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ArticleBus drivers vote to strike over fire and rehire plans
Bus drivers working for Manchester-based operator Go North West have overwhelmingly voted to strike over claims its ‘fire and rehire’ policy will leave them worse off.The vote for industrial action comes after the Go North West sent ‘notice of termination of your employment’ letters to workers, asking them to rejoin ...
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ArticleGovernment suspends pay gap reporting enforcement
The government appears to have indicated it is suspending enforcement of gender pay gap reporting for this year.In a BBC news report on Tuesday 9 February, Gillian Keegan MP, minister for Apprenticeships and Skills, confirmed that while it would be "encouraging" employers to continue filing their gender pay gap reports, ...
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Article67% of employees on low pay see salary cut due to pandemic
More than two-thirds (67%) of full-time, below-living-wage employees said their pay had been lowered for reasons related to the pandemic over the past year, according to a new report by The Living Wage Foundation.Life On Low Pay, a new report by The Living Wage Foundation, has revealed the depressing plight ...
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OpinionRanjit Dhindsa: What do employers need to plan for 2021?
It's been said that 2020 was an unprecedented year, but perhaps 2021 will be an even bigger test. Last year, businesses had to deal with the final countdown to Brexit coupled with a pandemic that still continues to plague the world.This year, employers will again need to juggle a number ...
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ArticleArcadia staff set for employment tribunal
More than 150 staff from across a range of brands from collapsed retail group Arcadia are set to launch a legal bid to have their owed wages paid to them.Former staff from Topshop and Miss Selfridge are claiming they were made redundant with immediate effect, and that there was no ...