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BIS: merit awards from 2.37% pot for former BERR staff
The first of the two groups in the newly created Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has had a pay award implemented. The 2,360 staff below the level of the senior civil service who transferred from the former Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform have received individual performance-based rises from a budget worth 2.37% of paybill. Top performers also receive awards from a bonus pot worth 0.86% of paybill.
Brother Industries: 0.5% basic increase, plus bonus
Brother Industries has awarded 200 staff and manual employees a 0.5% basic pay rise, with an additional 0.5% of paybill allocated to bringing salaries in line with market rates and to cover adjustments for promotion. The review is effective from 1 October 2009. In recognition of improved productivity, a company bonus, the equivalent to one week's pay, was paid to all staff in December 2009.
Telegraph Media Group: 1.5% plus bonus
The annual salaries of approximately 500 editorial staff at the Telegraph Media Group, which includes the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, have increased by 1.5% with effect from 1 January 2010. In addition, the company has awarded employees a non-consolidated lump-sum bonus of £500.
BMW plant, Hams Hall: 3% in final stage of two-year deal
In the second year of a two-year deal, employees - known as "associates" - at BMW's engine manufacturing plant in Hams Hall, near Birmingham, were awarded a 3% basic pay rise, with an additional £100 non-consolidated lump-sum payment.
Pay review update: 22 January 2010
The table summarises the latest pay awards monitored by the IRS paydatabank. For each pay award the entry shows the name and size of the review group, the effective date and length of the review, together with brief details of the main changes.
Sixth-form colleges support staff: 2.3% staged pay increase
Some 6,991 support staff in sixth-form colleges have accepted a staged pay award for 2009/10, with the first stage increasing the salary scales by 1.5% with effect from 1 September 2009. An additional uplift will be paid from 1 April 2010, increasing the 2008 pay spine points by 2.3% overall.
Germany: Christian trade union ruled not competent to bargain
In the latest development in a long-running rivalry between mainstream and Christian trade unions, the regional Labour Court in Berlin ruled on 7 December that CGZP, a grouping of Christian unions in the temporary agency work sector, does not have competence to bargain.
Ireland: Employers signal return to company-level bargaining
In late December 2009, the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (IBEC) announced that it had pulled out of the national pay agreement and advised member companies to prepare for local wage bargaining, for the first time in over 20 years.
Pay review update: 8 January 2010
The table summarises the latest pay awards monitored by the IRS pay databank. For each pay award, the entry shows the name and size of the review group, the effective date and length of the review, together with brief details of the main changes.
Family Mosaic: 1.7% paybill increase
With effect from 1 April 2009, 1,460 employees at Family Mosaic housing association received salary increases distributed from a 1.7% pay pot, with individual awards ranging from nil to 6.5%.
Corrugated packaging industry: 1% increase on minimum rates
The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) and the print and media section of Unite and the GMB have concluded a new 12-month pay and conditions deal that increases the minimum rates of employees covered by the corrugated packaging national agreement by 1%, effective from 1 September 2009.
Regional theatre staff: staged deal worth 2.5% over the year
An estimated 4,000 electricians, carpenters, backstage and box-office staff working in more than 200 regional theatres across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have received a 1% increase in the second stage of a 12-month pay and conditions agreement negotiated between the Theatrical Management Association (TMA) and the entertainment industry trade union BECTU.
