All Pay strategy articles – Page 198
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ArticleHelistrat gains living wage accreditation
Waste management organisation Helistrat has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage foundation.The Portsmouth-based organisation, which employs 55 members of staff, has committed to paying all employees at least the voluntary living wage rate of £8.25 an hour.The living wage is calculated according to the cost ...
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ArticleCalvin Harris tops charts for highest earnings
Something for the weekend: Calvin Harris is the highest-paid DJ in the world, raking in $63 million (approximately £47.9m) over the last year, according to research by Forbes.Its Electronic cash kings 2016 list, which looks at the pre-tax earnings of DJs between June 2015 and June 2016, found that the ...
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ArticleTotal pay increases by 2.4%
Total pay, including bonuses, increased by 2.4% in Great Britain between April-June 2015 and April-June 2016, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Its UK labour market: August 2016 report also found that for June 2016, average regular pay, excluding bonuses, was £472 a week before tax and pay deductions. ...
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ArticleGlobal account managers are paid highest annual bonuses
Global account managers receive the highest annual bonuses in the UK, taking home up to £37,000, according to research by Glassdoor.Its UK jobs paying the highest bonuses report, which is based on the median bonus amount and the median total compensation for jobs shared anonymously on Glassdoor, also found that ...
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ArticleSports Direct workers to receive £1m in back pay
Workers at Sports Direct's Shirebrook-based warehouse are to receive back pay amounting to an estimated £1 million to compensate for not being paid the national minimum wage.The payments will be back dated to May 2012. The back pay will cover the additional time taken for unpaid staff searches at the ...
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ArticleJackie Kinsey: What lessons can organisations learn from the Hollywood gender pay debate?
Last year, Jennifer Lawrence wrote a moving open letter about her experiences with pay disparity. She is one of the world’s most bankable movie stars, and she faces the same entrenched sexism that so many women struggle with every day.But she did more than just point out a well-known injustice. ...
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ArticleLucy Rees: What lessons can organisations learn from the Hollywood gender pay debate?
Gender pay differences exist throughout organisations and around the world. In Hollywood, recent debates in relation to the gender pay gap have highlighted the issue. Leading female actors, including Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow and Patricia Arquette, have been speaking out about gender pay differences and the ...
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ArticlePetra Wilton: What lessons can organisations learn from the Hollywood gender pay debate?
It is rare that Hollywood offers lessons in effective management; mercifully few of us see Don Corleone or Miranda Priestly as acceptable role models. The campaign for equal pay in Hollywood, however, does offer real lessons.Jennifer Lawrence, the world’s highest-paid actress, will no doubt have paused to consider the public ...
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ArticleProsys offers Pokemon Go-inspired remuneration to attract staff
Something for the weekend: With 53% of Pokemon Go-player respondents hooked on catching the virtual creatures while at work, according to research by Qualtrics, it is not surprising that employers are looking to the popular game to attract new talent.Danish IT organisation Prosys, based near Copenhagen, has tweaked its remuneration ...
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ArticleAverage FTSE 100 CEO pay rises to £5.5m a year
Average pay for FTSE 100 chief executive officers (CEOs) increased from £4.96 million in 2014 to £5.48 million in 2015, according to research by the High Pay Centre.Its State of pay report also found that the median pay for FTSE 100 CEOs was £3.97 million in 2015, compared to £3.87 ...
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ArticleApple achieves pay equity among US employees
Apple has achieved pay equity for similar roles and performance among its US workforce, according to its latest Inclusion and diversity report.Over the past year, Apple studied the total compensation for US employees and sought to close any wage gaps.The technology organisation’s US-based male and female employees now earn the ...
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ArticleMassachusetts introduces equal pay for comparable work law
The US state of Massachusetts is introducing a pay equality bill to ensure equal pay for comparable work for all employees.Charlie Baker, the governor of Massachusetts, signed the Act to Establish Pay Equality into law on Monday 1 August 2016, after it was unanimously passed by both the Massachusetts House ...
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Article94% would promote staff without giving pay rise
The majority (94%) of senior finance executive respondents would give an employee a promotion without offering additional remuneration, according to research by Robert Half UK.The research, which is based on interviews with 200 chief financial officers and finance directors in the UK, also found that around a third (30%) of ...
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ArticleLouise’s lowdown: Closing the gender pay gap requires a multi-pronged approach
In its Gender pay reporting survey, published in June 2016, Mercer asked organisations to list concerns about the implications of the gender pay reporting requirements in order of priority. The concerns that most frequently ranked in respondents’ top three all revolve around risk in some form: reputational risk (61%), equal ...
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ArticleUK wages drop by 10.4%
Employees in the UK have seen their real wages fall by 10.4%, according to research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).The research, which looked at real wage change and employment rate change for countries within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) between 2007 and 2015, found that the ...
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ArticleElectrical contractors' wages to rise by up to 3%
The Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) has agreed a four-year wage deal that will see its members' pay increase by up to 3% in 2020.The pay rises will be staggered, with members seeing an initial 2% increase in wages during 2017, before reaching 2.5% in 2018, 2.75% in 2019, and 3% ...
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ArticleNorth Sea Shell workers strike over pay and allowances
Wood Group employees based on Shell platforms across the North Sea who are members of the RMT and Unite unions are taking part in a 24-hour strike today (Tuesday 26 July 2016) in a dispute over pay and allowances.The industrial action involves around 400 Wood Group employees from the two ...
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ArticleHMRC cleaners strike over pay
Cleaners in Merseyside who are members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) are taking part in a two-day strike, starting today (Monday 25 July 2016) in a dispute over pay.The cleaners are employed by global facility services organisation ISS, and are contracted to work at the HM Revenue ...
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ArticleGoldsmiths gains living wage accreditation
Goldsmiths, University of London, has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation.The university, which employs 1,800 full and part-time staff, has been paying the London living wage rate since 2011.The London living wage is a voluntary rate calculated according to the cost of living in ...
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ArticleSports Direct yet to resolve back pay issues
The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee has released a report into employment practices at Sports Direct, which includes concerns around pay deductions and outstanding back pay.The report follows the admission of Mike Ashley, founder of Sports Direct, that staff at the organisation's Shirebrook warehouse were paid below the ...