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Datafile: 19 March 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/03/2010
Key statistics on inflation, average earnings and pay settlements.
IRS pay databank: 19 March 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/03/2010
This file contains the full findings of the IRS pay databank, providing analysis of basic pay settlements across the economy by sector. The pay databank analysis is based on information from more than 1,200 pay settlements collected by IRS pay researchers every year.
Employers optimistic about cost-cutting, CIPD reward survey suggests
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/03/2010
Employers are confident that cost-cutting will not dominate the reward agenda in 2010, although many are keen to focus pay rises on those employees who contribute most in terms of performance, the latest annual reward survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reveals.
Bargaining statistics: 19 March 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/03/2010
We summarise the latest bargaining statistics in a single table, including up-to-date official figures on inflation, earnings and the labour market, as well as settlement statistics from the main pay analysts.
Managers' pay and bonuses hit by recession
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/03/2010
The recession has had a severe impact on UK managers' pay packets, with executive pay showing its lowest rate of growth in at least a decade, according to the latest pay benchmarking research from XpertHR salary surveys.
Project managers: private sector and contractors take pay hit in 2009
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/03/2010
Project managers working in the private sector have seen their pay hit harder in 2009 than their counterparts in the public sector, according to the fifth annual report on project management professionals from recruitment specialist Arras People. Contractors have been particularly badly affected by the recession.
Datafile: 5 March 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/03/2010
Key statistics on inflation, average earnings and pay settlements.
IRS pay databank: 19 February 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/02/2010
This file contains the full findings of the IRS pay databank, providing analysis of basic settlements across the economy by sector. The pay databank analysis is based on information from more than 1,200 awards collected by IRS pay researchers every year.
Datafile: 19 February 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/02/2010
Key statistics on inflation, average earnings and pay settlements.
Bargaining statistics: 19 February 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/02/2010
We summarise the latest bargaining statistics in a single table, including up-to-date official figures on inflation, earnings and the labour market, as well as settlement statistics from the main pay analysts.
Pension is most valued benefit, says Croner Reward
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/02/2010
Croner Reward's latest employee benefits survey finds that, in common with its previous reports, the most popular incentive when it comes to recruiting and retaining staff is a pension.
Clerical staff salaries up by 1.7%
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/02/2010
Clerical staff saw their basic pay rise by 1.7% over 2009, compared with 3.2% in 2008, the latest survey of clerical and operative salaries from Croner Reward reveals.
Datafile: 5 February 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/02/2010
Key statistics on inflation, average earnings and pay settlements.
Q&A: Average weekly earnings
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/02/2010
From January 2010, the average earnings index was replaced by the average weekly earnings series as the Office for National Statistics' official measure of earnings growth. Here we explain how to use the statistics, and what they tell us about what is happening to pay growth.
Bargaining statistics: 22 January 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 22/01/2010
We summarise the latest bargaining statistics in a single table, including up-to-date official figures on inflation, earnings and the labour market, as well as settlement statistics from the main pay analysts.
Datafile: 22 January 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 22/01/2010
Key statistics on inflation, average earnings and pay settlements.
Case studies
Reporting gender pay gaps
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/03/2010
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a voluntary scheme for reporting on gender pay gaps in the private sector - something that very few firms currently do. But many HR professionals feel that transparency itself will do little to tackle the deep-rooted causes of gender pay inequality. This feature explains what employers are expected to report on and how.
Agenda for Change pay structure in the NHS: five years on
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 09/10/2009
It is almost five years since the Agenda for Change pay structure was introduced to unify pay across the NHS. We talk to Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust - one of the 12 early implementer sites - about how Agenda for Change works for them.
Unison's equality-proofed pay and grading structure
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/10/2009
Following the creation of Unison in 1993 and the legacy of five different sets of terms and conditions, the union set about equality-proofing its pay structure for staff, and harmonising terms and conditions. This case study charts the obstacles that were overcome and details the new pay structure.
Pay in the public sector: staff morale and retention
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 25/03/2008
Public sector workers are so unhappy with pay deals that strike action is more likely than ever. What does this mean for staff morale and retention, asks Ross Bentley?
Spain: Family-friendly agreement signed for savings banks
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 12/03/2008
An innovative new collective agreement for the Spanish savings bank sector, which will be in force until the end of 2010, provides for a range of paid time-off rights for family reasons, shorter hours for parents, and unpaid leave of up to three years to care for children or disabled relatives. Other provisions of the accord include inflation-linked pay rises and a job-creation commitment by employers.
Equal pay reviews in action
Source: Equal Opportunities Review
Date: 01/03/2008
Although the government has so far resisted calls to make equal pay reviews a legal requirement, some organisations are pre-empting any such development by voluntarily carrying out reviews. HBOS is one such organisation and Kate Godwin explains how they went about doing it.
New scheme for local authority workers unveiled
Source: Occupational Pensions
Date: 01/08/2007
A revamped pension scheme for local government workers will go live from April 2008. Up to 1.7 million members of the current plan will transfer across on this date and start to build up benefits on the basis of the new scheme's 1/60th accrual rate.
Equal pay at the University of Sunderland
Source: Equal Opportunities Review
Date: 01/06/2007
A programme of annual equal pay audits has resulted in the University of Sunderland having one of the smallest academic gender pay gaps in the UK and being included as an exemplar employer for its work in addressing gender, equal pay and opportunities for women.
Pay equality at Devon County Council
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 04/05/2007
With the equal pay deadline for local authorities now having passed, we look at the approach taken by Devon County Council, where a new job evaluation-based pay structure went live from 1 April 2007.
Spain: Energy sector reaches accords
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 01/03/2007
Collective agreements have recently come into force at Repsol YPF, the energy group, and the Petróleos del Norte oil-refining company, which is majority-owned by Repsol. We review the main provisions of two of the key accords in the Spanish energy sector.
Promoting diversity in public services
Source: Equal Opportunities Review
Date: 01/02/2007
As a large contractor of public services, Serco is in a position to influence the promotion of equal treatment through its procurement policy. Its commitment starts with its own equality and diversity strategy, which has been developed to apply across diverse business units in more than 30 countries.
Spain: Two-year accord at Siemens now in force
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 01/02/2007
A two-year collective agreement covering 4,900 employees at Siemens SA in Spain has now taken effect, providing for pay increases of 3.2% each year for two years. We review its main provisions.
International: Areva European equality agreement
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 01/01/2007
In an innovative move, Areva, the French nuclear power multinational, has signed a Europe-wide equal opportunities agreement with the European Metalworkers' Federation.
Call centre pay: changing with the times
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 15/12/2006
In the second part of our research on call centre pay and benefits, we report on some further findings from our survey and take a closer look at the steps taken by three employers to ensure that their pay is competitive.
Spain: New agreement at Correos
Source: European Industrial Relations Review
Date: 01/12/2006
Employees at the state-owned Spanish postal company, Correos, are now covered by a collective agreement that will run until the end of 2008. The accord sets out new rates of pay and regulates areas such as job classification, employee mobility, working time and health and safety.
Germany: Employment security accord at ThyssenKrupp Steel
Source: European Industrial Relations Review
Date: 01/08/2006
An agreement recently concluded at ThyssenKrupp Steel will cut the working week by one hour, with a corresponding reduction in pay, in return for a guarantee that no compulsory redundancies will be made for seven years.
Taking the plunge: equal pay reviews
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 02/06/2006
Four employers tell IRS Employment Review that the benefits of carrying out an equal pay review far outweigh the costs and work involved.
Coffee beings
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 02/05/2006
Coffee bars are fast eclipsing pubs on UK high streets, but who looks after the 'baristas' who sell us our daily espresso? Georgina Fuller grills the HR directors and their policies.
It's a lifestyle not a job
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 02/05/2006
An interim training specialist explains what makes temporary working life so good.
International: PSA Peugeot Citroën signs CSR/global council agreement
Source: European Industrial Relations Review
Date: 01/05/2006
PSA Peugeot Citroën has signed a global framework agreement on corporate social responsibility with international trade union organisations, which also provides for the group's EWC to be expanded and turned into a global council.
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