All Pay strategy articles – Page 126
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ArticleHighlands and Islands air traffic controllers accept 9% pay deal
Air traffic controllers, represented by trade union Prospect and working for Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL), have accepted a pay rise amounting to 9% over the period of three years, ending a long-running dispute.The new offer covers the period April 2018 to April 2021, with an additional over the ...
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ArticleAngela Matthews: How can employers address the disability pay gap?
Recent headlines about the disability pay gap have, rightly, caused alarm. A wide pay gap does not sync with employers’ increasing efforts to become disability inclusive. However, measuring the gap is not the panacea it may first appear.Many factors influence a disability pay gap. For example, the most commonly sought-after ...
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ArticleQuinn Roache: How can employers address the disability pay gap?
Research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Disability employment and pay gap, published in November 2019, shows that in the UK the average disability pay gap is 15.5%. This is equivalent to being paid a £1.65 less per hour, or a whopping £3,000 less per year, based on a 35-hour ...
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ArticleJeff Dodds: How can employers address the disability pay gap?
As we begin the next decade, I want to see more businesses take responsibility and action around how they recruit and employ disabled people.It is simply not good enough that, according to the Office of National Statistics' (ONS) Quarterly labour force survey: October - December 2018, a million disabled people, ...
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ArticleDutch hospital employees agree to 8% pay increase affecting 200,000 staff
Image credit: FNVMembers of the Dutch trade union FNV have agreed to a pay deal reached on December 2019 for 200,000 employees working in hospitals covered by the country's collective labour agreement (CLA).Employees covered by the CLA will receive a total pay increase of 8% over 27 months. In addition, ...
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ArticlePoll: Half of employers reward staff with Christmas parties during the festive season
Employee Benefits poll: Almost half (48%) of organisations choose to reward their employees with a Christmas party or meal during the festive period. A poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 45 responses, also found that 16% do not include Christmas at all when looking to reward their staff throughout this ...
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ArticleNational living wage set to increase by 6.2% in April 2020
The national living wage will rise by 6.2% to £8.72 in 2020, the biggest increase since its introduction in April 2016.The government has estimated that almost three million UK workers will receive increases to their pay as a result of the increase, which will come into effect on 1 April ...
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Supplier articleWhat is the Best Time to Look for a New Job?
We love to eat ice-creams in the summer heat and a hot coffee in the cold winter days. There is a specific season for everything. Yes, the same rule applies to the job-hunting process as well. There are millions of people who are looking for a new job, or they ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Only 16% of employers measure their gender pensions gap
EXCLUSIVE: Although employers are increasingly focused on closing the widely discussed and publicised gender pay gap, just 16% of respondents proactively measure the gender pensions gap in their organisation, according to research by Employee Benefits.While it is encouraging that some organisations are doing so, there is still a long way ...
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ArticleCoco di Mama rolls out flexible pay benefit for 270 employees
Italian-inspired food and drink chain Coco di Mama is rolling out a flexible pay benefit that will allow all of its 270 employees, working across 23 cafes, to access their wages ahead of their scheduled paydays. Coco di Mama has been trialling the flexible pay app, provided by Wagestream, since ...
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ArticleCalifornia court rules case for reclassification of Uber drivers premature
The District Court of the Northern District of California has declined to order ride-hailing organisation Uber to treat its drivers as employees, but has further refused to entirely dismiss the claims, leaving open an opportunity for further consideration.The case, Colopy v Uber Technologies, concerns Thomas Calopy, who worked as an ...
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ArticleCIPHR acquires Payroll Business Solutions
UK HR software provider CIPHR has acquired its long-term strategic software partner, Payroll Business Solutions (PBS), it announced on 16 December 2019. PBS, which has 20 members of staff, predominately payroll specialists, will join CIPHR's 130 employees, including service desk staff, software developers, project delivery staff, consultants and training specialists, ...
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ArticleEmployees in Aberdeen, Hull and Edinburgh are the richest in the UK
Employees who live and work in Aberdeen, Hull and Edinburgh are among the richest in the UK, according to research by CV Library.The study compared the basic living costs against average salaries for UK professionals in 18 of the UK’s key cities from July 2019 to 20 October 2019. It ...
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ArticleNorthern Ireland nursing staff strike at 21 locations in dispute over pay
Image credit: RCNNorthern Ireland nursing staff working within health and social care (HSC) organisations, who are members of the trade union Royal College of Nursing (RCN), are undertaking strike action today (18 December 2019).Nurses and nursing assistants are protesting over being paid less than their counterparts in England, Wales and ...
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ArticleC and W Trucking ordered to pay $199,000 in wage violations
A contractor for the US Postal Service (USPS), C and W Trucking has been ordered to pay $199,010 (£150,000) for overtime violations and for unpaid health and welfare benefits, after an investigation by the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) discovered it was violating federal law.The investigation ...
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ArticleFrench transport employees strike over pension reforms
Image credit: Willy BartonFrench transport workers, represented by the Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labour (GCT)), are undertaking strike action today (17 December 2019) in an ongoing dispute regarding pension reforms.This is the 13th day of strike action in protest of French prime minister Edouard Philippe's November 2019 ...
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ArticleNewcross Healthcare rolls out flexible pay benefit to 8,000 health workers
Healthcare organisation Newcross Healthcare is rolling out a flexible pay benefit that will allow 8,000 health workers among its 9,000-strong workforce to access their pay as it is earned, rather than waiting for a monthly pay date. Newcross Healthcare has been trialling the new Flexi Pay benefit for the past ...
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ArticleChristmas movie lover offered $1,000 to watch 24 Hallmark films in 12 days
Something for the weekend: Internet service provider CenturyLink is looking to recruit a Christmas movie fan to watch 24 Hallmark Christmas movies in 12 days.It is offering to pay the lucky applicant $1,000 (£750) to watch a list of movies, then take to social media and spread the word, and ...
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OpinionCarol Shaw: A change to recording daily working time?
Earlier this year, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that employers must record workers’ daily working time to ensure compliance with the Working Time Directive, EU legislation guaranteeing certain rights for workers and setting out requirements relating to working hours, rest breaks and annual leave.The WTD is implemented in ...
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ArticleEight in 10 Dorset police employees feel underpaid for stress of the job
More than four-fifths (86%) of Dorset police do not feel fairly paid for the stresses and strains of their job, according to the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) Pay and morale survey.The survey, which received 1,296 responses, 362 from Dorset Police and 934 who declined to state their ...