Welcome to XpertHR's pay review resources including data on pay awards, economic indicators, forecasts and analysis. 

Welcome to XpertHR's pay review resources including IRS data on pay awards, economic indicators, forecasts and analysis. 

The level of RPI inflation is a key indicator used during wage negotiations by those on both sides of the bargaining table. However, with RPI going from record lows to a 19-year high in the space of a year, pay settlers would be forgiven for struggling to keep up. 

Reward specialists at XpertHR present their twice monthly settlement summary table, together with detailed reports of recent pay reviews. 

Economic recovery is ongoing, but faltering growth, widespread job insecurity and concerted industrial action could be just around the corner, according to XpertHR Salary Surveys. 

The political heat surrounding public sector pensions is rising as a government-established public service pensions commission sets about producing proposals for cutting costs. 

XpertHR is offering you the opportunity to gain valuable free intelligence on the prospects for pay in 2011. All you have to do is take part in our pay prospects survey.

The Government Equalities Office has launched a consultation on the public sector equality duty under the Equality Act 2010. The consultation document is asking for views on draft regulations on the specific equality duties, and on which public bodies will be subject to those duties. 

Reward specialists at IRS present their twice monthly settlement summary table, together with detailed reports of recent pay reviews. 

A growing number of FTSE 100 companies with defined-benefit pension schemes are using their property and other non-cash assets to help plug deficits in pension funding. 

New model documents include a bonuses policy, letters relating to disciplinary and retirement appeal hearings, and a form for an employee to withdraw a statutory flexible working request. 

Health benefits are alive and well, with two-thirds of employers offering private medical insurance to some staff and a similar proportion providing access to an employee assistance programme, our survey reveals.

Pay settlements in the finance sector have fallen in value over the past year, with performance-based deals worth a median 2.3% and the median basic pay award sinking to a pay freeze. We take a look at pay trends in the sector and analyse findings from the IRS pay databank.

Reward specialists at IRS present their twice monthly settlement summary table, together with detailed reports of recent pay reviews.

The Pensions Regulator believes that the successful administration of pension schemes rests on high standards of record-keeping and data measurement and it has produced revised guidance containing more stringent requirements.

Summer 2010 has brought a respite from bad economic news, yet significant risks to ongoing economic recovery remain, according to XpertHR salary surveys.

From cash to champagne, awards for long service are a popular way of showing employees that they are valued. The latest instalment of our employee benefits survey also covers staff discounts and childcare support. 

Additions to the FAQs section cover pay for redundant employees during a trial period, and time off for employees adopting a child. 

It is advisable to introduce a policy that clearly sets out how sickness during leave will be dealt with, or amend existing annual leave policies to that effect, according to this "weekly dilemma".

E.ON has re-packaged its employee benefits into a flexible benefit scheme and taken steps to maximise the take-up of family-friendly benefits, particularly childcare vouchers. 

Reward specialists at IRS present their twice monthly settlement summary table, together with detailed reports of recent pay reviews. 

Despite the continuing move away from final-salary pensions in the private sector, such schemes still narrowly top the overall table for pensions provision, according to our major survey of benefits and allowances in 2010.