All Pay strategy articles – Page 118
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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 ...
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Article100,000 NHS staff now have early access to wages
More than 100,000 NHS staff across seven trusts are now able to have early access to their earned and extra shifts pay, after they joined Allocate Instant Pay by Wagestream.The deal means workers at trusts including Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital and ...
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ArticleCare home staff risk lives without proper sick pay
Care home workers are putting residents' lives at risk by being forced to work because they are still not given full pay when they are ill.Trade union Unison reported that it had been contacted by numerous staff who say they are only offered statutory sick pay (£96 per week) instead ...
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ArticleWaterstones staff petition for minimum wage
A 1,500-signature petition signed by staff and well-known authors, including Philip Pullman, has been presented to Waterstones’ managing director, James Daunt, and chief operating officer, Kate Skipper, demanding the book chain's furloughed wages be raised to at least the minimum wage.Waterstones decided to close its stores during the current lockdown ...
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ArticleSleepJunkie offers $3000 to professional mattress tester
Something for the weekend: Many of us may be struggling with ‘Coronasomnia’ – difficulty nodding off due to the stresses and uncertainty brought about by Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - but now SleepJunkie is offering one sleeping beauty the chance to earn $3,000 (£2,200) in return for testing out mattresses.The job, which ...
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ArticleResearch reveals top paying careers after 20 years
New research by Standout CV has unveiled the top paying careers by the time an employee reaches their 20th year in the job.Traditionally the half-way point in people’s working lives, the study revealed that it is pilots who accumulate the most cash by their 20th work anniversary - pocketing £1,132,500.Created ...
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ArticlePay rises down 0.3 percentage points on last year
Pay rises are down an average of 0.3% on last year, according to research published today by Incomes Data Research (IDR).The analysis of 56 new pay deals already agreed for 2021 found that almost half have either given, or are set to give, employees increases of between 2% and 2.99%.Higher-end ...
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OpinionKatie Davenport: CJRS changes to allow furlough of working parents
Following closure of primary and secondary schools on 5 January 2021, HMRC amended its guidance on which employees can be furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). An employer can now furlough an employee if they are unable to work, whether in the workplace or from home, because they ...