All Pay strategy articles – Page 89
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ArticleKavitha’s keynote: Breaking the fertility taboo
Despite NHS figures showing that around one in seven couples have problems with fertility, it’s still widely viewed as a taboo topic and one that is very rarely acknowledged in the workplace.However, things are changing. In recent years a growing number of employers have been introducing support for staff who ...
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ArticleThe Royal Household looks for new recruits
Something for the weekend: Do you feel royally fed up with where you are working? Well, now’s your chance to swap those everyday humdrum office surroundings for the exclusive environments of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, the Palace of Holyrood House and beyond, because The Royal Household is on a recruitment ...
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ArticleRail network staff strike over pay freeze
Multiple rail network staff are striking over a pay dispute involving conductors, ticket examiners and maintenance engineers in the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union.The strikes, which began on 27 June and are due to continue until mid-August, are against private operators due to a two-year pay freeze for 62,000 ...
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ArticleCumbria has the largest pay gap in England
Newly published research has found that Cumbria has the biggest county pay gap in England, with a £500 weekly wage difference between the highest and lowest earnings areas.The study by international payment provider RationalFX involved analysing the median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees in more than 300 local authority ...
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ArticlePoll: 23% of employers have cut staff benefits since pandemic began
Employee Benefits poll: Almost a quarter of organisations have either cut or reduced staff benefits since the beginning of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.According to the latest Employee Benefits survey, 23% of organisations reported that they had either cut or offered fewer perks to their employees in response to the global ...
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ArticleUK employees work 7.8 hours per week of unpaid overtime
New data has found that UK employees currently work an average of 7.8 hours per week of unpaid overtime, almost a full hour more than the European average of 6.7.A study by the ADP Research Institute titled People at work 2021: a global workforce view revealed that the cost of ...
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ArticleCITB employees lodge complaint over furlough pay
More than 100 Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) employees have made a collective grievance against their employer over furlough pay.Problems with the board’s payroll have resulted in some CITB staff receiving too much furlough pay as part of the UK government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and some receiving too ...
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ArticleDundee Heritage Trust becomes living wage employer
Dundee Heritage Trust has become a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer.The organisation, which is an independent charity?that runs the Verdant Works and the Discovery Point museums in Dundee, will join 165 others that have received this recognition.According to the trust, it was heavily affected by the lockdown due to the ...
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ArticleZurich UK ethnicity bonus gap almost doubles
Insurer Zurich UK has revealed a sharp rise in its ethnicity bonus gap for 2021, which has increased to 37%, up from 19.6% in the previous year.The organisation attributes the widening gap to having fewer black and ethnic minority employees in senior roles.Zurich UK's ethnicity pay gap also rose to ...
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ArticlePay awards still fail to meet cost of living
Pay awards have reached their highest level for six months, at 2%, but still lag behind inflation.According to the latest analysis of pay settlement data by XpertHR, the average pay award effective in the three months to the end of May 2021 increased by 0.1 percentage points on figure for ...
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ArticleBolt drivers strike over worker rights
UK Bolt app rideshare drivers are staging a 24-hour strike today (22 June) as a result of a dispute over their worker rights.The drivers, who are part of the App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU), are demanding that the rideshare operator respects their rights following this year’s Supreme Court ruling ...
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ArticleABB launches paid parental leave programme
Technology organisation ABB has announced it will launch a gender neutral parental leave programme in order to foster a more diverse and inclusive culture.The new initiative, which is part of ABB’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2030, will support families by giving parents an opportunity to balance career and family ...
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Article51% of employers increased pay to meet NLW rise
Half of large employers have had to increase their pay rates to comply with the uplift in the national living wage (NLW), introduced on 1 April this year.According to the latest research from income data specialists IDR, 51% of these organisations reported that they had raised their lowest rate of ...
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ArticleEmployers can furlough self-isolating employees
Employers can claim from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) for staff who are self-isolating, despite UK government guidance stating it is not what the initiative is intended for.The entitlement was first reported by Politico magazine after emails from civil servants complaining about government guidance were leaked. One email said ...
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ArticlePremier Inn employees strike over living wage dispute
Premier Inn staff staged protests in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland yesterday (17 June), asking to be paid the living wage of £10.85 in London and £9.50 across the rest of the UK.The socially distanced protests took place at Premier Inns in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Tenby and Aberystwyth, the ...
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ArticleDiageo signs three-year pay deal for Scottish staff
Spirits and beers producer Diageo has agreed to a new three-year pay deal with unions Unite Scotland and GMB Scotland to increase wages with inflation for its Scottish staff.The arrangement, which is set to last until 2024, includes a 3% pay rise covering the last financial year. Wages will then ...
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ArticleCoastal Recycling becomes employee owned
Exeter, UK based recycling and refuse collection services provider Coastal Recycling has announced its 140 employees are now the majority stakeholders in the business through an employee ownership trust (EOT).This means Coastal Recycling can maintain its independent status, enable its staff to receive a share of profits and a bonus ...
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ArticleSenior male staff are paid 23% more than females
Male employees in senior positions get paid 23% more than women at director levels, according to new research from Movemeon.com and Payspective.com.Movemeon.com, a strategic and commercial professionals hiring channel, and its sister data provider company Payspective.com, carried out its 2021 Work and pay research compiled from 35,000 data points to ...
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ArticleTyne and Wear Metro staff to strike over pay freeze
Tyne and Wear Metro employees have planned for seven days of industrial action over a pay dispute with their employer Swiss rail giant Stadler.The staff, who are members of the Unite and RMT union, are striking in response to a wage freeze from 28 June. Stadler, which maintains Metro’s train ...
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OpinionYvonne Gallagher: Uber's GMB deal is a turning point for workers' rights
Last month saw the announcement that Uber will officially recognise the trade union GMB, enabling it to formally represent up to 70,000 Uber drivers across the UK. GMB rightly described the arrangement as ground-breaking, since Uber had not previously been willing either to acknowledge employee or worker rights for its ...