All Pay strategy articles – Page 80
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ArticleLidl Germany commits to pay staff €14 minimum wage
Image credit: Manuel Esteban / Shutterstock.comLidl Germany has committed to pay its employees a minimum entry-level wage of at least €14 (£11.93) gross per hour from 1 June.This will be an increase from the current Lidl minimum entry wage of €12.50 (£10.65) per hour, and will also exceed the ...
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ArticleTallymoney pilots paying staff in gold
Image credit: Ascannio / Shutterstock.comFinancial services firm Tallymoney has offered its 20-plus members of staff the chance to get paid in gold rather than pounds and pence, in order to help them stay ahead of inflation.Cameron Parry, chief executive officer at Tallymoney, has himself signed up to the scheme. Parry ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 6 May – 12 May 2022
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 6 May and 12 May 2022 were: KPMG awards staff minimum of £2,000 pay riseLinklaters launches global menopause policyRoyal Bank of Canada increases base pay by 3% for lower-paid staff41% of employers think mental health is their biggest challengeCentrica and BNP Paribas ...
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ArticleDeliveroo signs employee rights deal with GMB
Deliveroo has signed a recognition deal with trade union GMB, which covers the rights of more than 90,000 self-employed riders, including factors such as pay and wellbeing.The voluntary partnership agreement recognises that Deliveroo riders are self-employed, following a series of UK court judgments to this effect.GMB will be able to ...
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ArticleBBC awards staff 5.2% pay rise for 2022
The BBC has promised a 4.2% pay increase for its staff, followed by a further rise of 1% from August, bringing the total increase for 2022 to 5.2%.While this is 3% more than the annual pay increase provided by the broadcaster in 2021, it has acknowledged that this is still ...
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ArticleRoyal Bank of Canada increases base pay by 3% for lower-paid staff
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is to raise its base pay by 3% for lower-paid employees as part of a $200 million (£124.6 million) spending package.The increase, which will take effect on 1 July, applies to all employees in entry-level and less senior positions at branches, call centres and other ...
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ArticleTyler Grange signs up to four-day week pilot
Landscape planning, ecology and arboriculture consultancy Tyler Grange has signed up to the four-day week pilot programme beginning in June.The initiative, in association with 4-Day Week Global, UK think tank Autonomy and researchers at Cambridge University, Boston College and Oxford University, will initially run for six months. Tyler Grange’s employees ...
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ArticleThird of FTSE 100 employers have widened gender pay gap since 2017
The median pay gap across FTSE 100 employers has decreased by just 1% since reporting legislation was introduced in 2017, with 30% of these businesses actually increasing their pay gap over that time, according to analysis of gender pay gap reporting by HR DataHubIts review of government files and FTSE ...
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OpinionLouise Mason: Employment legislation still on horizon despite bill absence in Queen’s Speech
The Queen's Speech was delivered on 10 May and, as expected, there was no mention of the employment bill. The purpose of the Queen's Speech is to set the legislative agenda for the next parliamentary session so the absence of the bill suggests no employment legislation will be forthcoming for ...
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OpinionChris Thompson: The wait for employment reforms continues
The absence of any reference to reforming employment rights or the Employment Bill in the Queen’s Speech [on 10 May] has highlighted the amount of employment legislation that has been announced only to be later side lined.On more than one occasion when questions have been raised in Parliament about the ...
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OpinionLucy Lewis: Omission of employment bill from Queen’s Speech is no great surprise
Yesterday’s Queen’s Speech was reportedly the shortest for nearly 10 years. It was, as many commentators have pointed out, a little on the light side, with a number of key policies and priorities not making it in to the final version delivered by HRH the Prince of Wales.The long-anticipated employment ...
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ArticleGovernment excludes proposed employment bill from Queen's Speech
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has accused the government of “turning its back” on working people after ministers failed to include a promised employment bill in the Queen’s Speech, which took place today.In 2019, the government announced it would bring forward a bill to improve workers’ rights, but despite committing ...
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ArticleInsecure and low-paid work could be costing Treasury £10 billion per year
A Trades Union Congress (TUC) report has warned that the government’s failure to stop insecure and low-paid work could be costing HM Treasury £10 billion a year.According to the research, which used the latest tax and benefit modelling, low-paid self-employment costs £9.7 billion alone each year, and more than £192 ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 28 April – 5 May 2022
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 28 April and 5 May 2022 were: Salesforce and Cisco named among best UK workplaces for 2022PWC reintroduces summer hours following successful pilotAirbnb introduces flexible working initiativeIpsos and John Lewis shortlisted for Best Benefits to Support Menopause, Fertility or PregnancyPost Office staff ...
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ArticleBulgaria offers best paid maternity package
Bulgaria offers Europe’s best paid maternity package that includes a minimum of 58.6 weeks off, according to analysis by global employment platform Boundless.Its league table, which analysed how individual countries compensate women as they become new mothers, assessed each European country based on the length of full maternity pay it ...
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ArticleKPMG awards staff minimum of £2,000 pay rise
Audit, legal, tax and advisory services firm KPMG has awarded its 15,800 UK employees a salary increase as part of its £51.7 million investment and commitment to them.Employees will receive a flat pay rise of either £2,000 or £4,000 depending on their role, which will be backdated to 1 April. ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid tries to educate the talent team
We have a bit of a problem with the talent team. A misnomer if ever there was one. It might be different in other organisations but our recruiters are not a very talented bunch. I’m pretty sure that the criteria for hiring them is a dubious certificate in media studies ...
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ArticleOutsourced Tesco drivers secure 27% pay increase
Fuel tank drivers employed by logistics firm XPO on an outsourced contract for supermarket chain Tesco's petrol stations have called off strike action, after securing a 27% pay increase.A total of 57 drivers, members of trade union Unite, voted 100% in favour of strike action in order to improve their ...
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ArticleLinkedIn to pay $1.8m in back wages to address equal pay disparity
Image credit: Ink Drop / Shutterstock.comEmployment networking site operator LinkedInhas reached a conciliation agreement with the US Department of Labor, in order to resolve allegations of gender-based pay disparities in its San Francisco and California locations.In a routine compliance evaluation, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program (OFCCP) found that ...
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ArticleStephenson Harwood offers full-time remote work for London leavers
Law firm Stephenson Harwood has offered employees in its London office the opportunity to move to a full remote-working arrangement, in exchange for a 20% reduction to pay.The firm told Employee Benefits that, during the pandemic, it opened up its recruitment to those not based in London, in order to ...