All Pay strategy articles – Page 179
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OpinionRita Trehan: Should employers be required to report on broader diversity pay data?
Mandatory gender pay gap reporting is a great start to highlighting the issue of inequality in the workplace. But simply reporting statistics will not lead to transformational change. Real change can only happen when organisations embrace diversity in its fullest sense.For too long, we have lacked ambition and action when ...
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OpinionMaggie Stilwell: Should employers be required to report on broader diversity pay data?
It is now a commonly accepted fact that a diverse workforce operating in an inclusive environment creates a better business performance.Our experience is that goals, targets and measures set by regulation can help an organisation work towards that. For example, the gender pay gap regulations provide an opportunity for organisations ...
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OpinionNick Willis: Clarity around employment status could lead to dramatic impacts on gig economy
Perhaps the oldest question in employment law is 'when is someone genuinely self-employed?' The question remains a difficult one to answer and it is becoming difficult to keep up with the pace of developments on this very basic issue.One of the latest pieces of news is the publication of a ...
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ArticleAlex M Adamson gains living wage accreditation
Sheriff office and debt collection agency Alex M Adamson has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation.The organisation has committed to paying its 57 permanent employees, as well as any third-party contractors, working across its five operating sites at least the voluntary living wage rate ...
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ArticleSlaughter and May increases pay for junior lawyers
Global law firm Slaughter and May is to increase pay for its trainee and junior lawyers from January 2018, and will pay its associates bonuses of up to 16% for 2017.First-year trainees will see their pay increase from £43,000 a year to £44,000 from January 2018, second-year trainees will receive ...
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ArticleTotal pay falls by 0.2% in real terms
Total pay for employees in Great Britain, including bonuses, fell by 0.2% in real terms between August to October 2016 and August to October 2017, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Its UK labour market: December 2017 report also found that regular pay, excluding bonus payments, fell ...
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Article70% believe reporting will help to reduce the gender pay gap
More than three-quarters (70%) of employer respondents believe that gender pay gap reporting will help to reduce the gender pay gap, according to research by the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD).Its Reward management: focus on pay report, which surveyed 715 employers, also found that 67% think it will ...
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ArticleRoyal Mail to face legal action over holiday pay and minimum wage
Royal Mail is to face legal action over the status of its courier drivers and their entitlement to employment rights, such as holiday pay and the national minimum wage.The legal action is being brought to the Employment Tribunal (ET) by trade union GMB on behalf of four courier drivers who ...
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OpinionEd Stacey: Holiday pay for workers could place them in a better position than employees
This month saw the anticipated ruling from the European Court of Justice in the case of King vs Sash Windows Workshop. The key question in the case was whether a worker who fails to take paid annual holiday, due to their employer refusing to meet their obligation to provide it, ...
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ArticleCBRE staff based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital to receive 5% pay rise
Maintenance employees who work for property organisation CBRE at the Royal Berkshire Hospital are to receive a minimum 5% pay rise.Employees, who are also members of trade union GMB, will receive a 5% pay increase awarded as back pay in their December salary. This has been calculated as a 1% ...
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ArticlePrimark and Sports Direct named on minimum wage non-compliance list
Retail organisations Primark and Sports Direct are among the 260 employers named by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for failure to pay employees the national minimum wage and national living wage.Primark, which ranked third on the government’s list of organisations that have underpaid staff the minimum ...
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ArticleScott's stance: Reporting ethnicity pay gaps creates roadmap to inclusive workplace cultures
This week, professional services organisation Deloitte UK voluntarily reported its ethnicity pay gap for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff for the first time, reporting a mean ethnicity pay gap of 12.9% for fixed hourly pay and a mean ethnicity bonus gap of 41.9%.With gender pay gap reporting building ...
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ArticleDeloitte UK reports a 12.9% mean ethnicity pay gap
Professional services firm Deloitte UK has reported a 12.9% mean ethnicity pay gap for fixed hourly pay between black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees and non-BAME employees across the organisation.Deloitte UK is reporting its ethnicity pay gap for the first time this year, illustrating the percentage difference for salary ...
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AnalysisHow do salary sacrifice arrangements affect gender pay gap reporting?
Need to know: Deductions for salary sacrifice arrangements are excluded from an employee’s base pay for the purposes of gender pay gap reporting. This could influence an organisation’s final gender pay gap data depending on how many women compared to men have taken up benefit via ...
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OpinionSumita Ketkar: What can employers learn from gender pay gap reporting?
It is hardly a revelation that employers are not enthusiastic about announcing their gender pay gap figures, even as the April 2018 deadline approaches. As of the first week of November 2017, only 204 of 9,000 organisations based in the UK had announced their figures, and only a small minority ...
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AnalysisInfographic: What do employers think causes the gender pay gap?
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ArticleWest Ham United Football Club gains living wage accreditation
West Ham United Football Club has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation.The organisation, which is the third Premier League football club to become a living wage employer, has committed to paying its 200 permanent employees, as well as any third-party contractors, at least the ...
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ArticleAdvertised salaries increase by 1.9% year-on-year
Advertised salaries in the UK have increased by 1.9% year-on-year as at November 2017, according to research by CV Library.Its analysis of its job market data also found that advertised UK salaries increased by 1.3% between October 2017 and November 2017.Advertised salaries for jobs in the education sector in the ...
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ArticleHigh Court rules Morrisons is liable in payroll data leak case
The High Court has ruled that retailer Morrisons is legally responsible for a payroll data leak committed by a former employee.The two-week High Court trial, which commenced on Monday 9 October 2017, was a class action lawsuit brought by 5,518 current and former Morrisons employees, seeking compensation after a payroll ...
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ArticleAccenture reports a 16.7% mean gender pay gap
Global management consultancy and professional services organisation Accenture has reported a 16.7% mean gender pay gap for fixed hourly pay as at 5 April 2017.The organisation has reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations and ahead of the private sector submission ...