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Pay review update: 3 September 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 03/09/2010
The table summarises the latest pay awards monitored by the XpertHR pay databank (formerly known as 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.
Boots: retail pay rises of up to 3%
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 03/09/2010
Spot rates for retail sales assistants and consultants at Boots have increased across all four UK pay zones by between 1% and 3%. The agreement, which covers approximately 50,000 employees, is effective for 12 months from 1 June 2010.
Ministry of Defence non-industrial staff: award worth 3.71% of paybill
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 03/09/2010
The final stage of a three-year pay review was implemented for 47,500 non-industrial staff at the Ministry of Defence from 1 August 2010. The award consists of a restructuring of the pay scales and progression increases, and was worth 3.71% of paybill in total.
Ucatt warns of lack of funding for mesothelioma research
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 25/08/2010
Construction union Ucatt is concerned the coalition Government will renege on a commitment made by the outgoing Labour administration that money would be invested in medical research into the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.
Fear of litigation hinders real health and safety priorities
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 25/08/2010
Health and safety priorities are too often driven by a fear of litigation or a focus, particularly in the media, on issues that are trivial. This could mean that major ongoing health risks, such as exposures at work, remain poorly understood or managed, the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) has warned.
Building and Allied Trades JIC: 2% increase ends wage standstill
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 20/08/2010
An agreement between Unite and the Federation of Master Builders increases the basic hourly rates of building craftworkers, employees and general operatives by 2% from 13 September 2010. However, as the effective date is three months later than the normal June anniversary, the review is worth 1.5% on an annualised basis.
Pay review update: 20 August 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 20/08/2010
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.
Italy: Footwear industry agreement allows greater working time flexibility
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 19/08/2010
A collective agreement signed in the Italian footwear industry in July 2010 provides for an average monthly pay increase of €105 over three years, greater working time flexibility, measures to promote company-level bargaining and increase productivity, and a rise in supplementary pension contributions.
EU: Commission consults on future of pensions
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 19/08/2010
In July 2010, the European Commission launched a public consultation on how to ensure "adequate, sustainable and safe" pensions systems in the future, and how the EU can best support national efforts in this area.
France: Pay freeze agreed at GM plant
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 19/08/2010
Workers at a General Motors plant in Strasbourg, France agreed in July 2010 to a two-year pay freeze and increases in working time in order to safeguard the site's future.
France: Employers without gender equality agreements to be fined
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 19/08/2010
Draft legislation proposed in France in July 2010 would impose financial penalties on employers that do not have in place a collective agreement on gender equality, or an equivalent action plan, by 1 January 2012.
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