Pay and benefits

New and updated

• Pay trends June 2019: Pay awards steady

  Date:

  20 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  As more organisations agree details of their 2019 pay deal, our analysis finds the median award holding steady at 2.5%.

• Pay awards: 20 June 2019

  Date:

  20 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  The table summarises the latest pay settlements monitored by XpertHR.

• One in six workers are in insecure, low-paid jobs

  Date:

  13 June 2019

  Type:

  News

  One sixth of UK workers - around 5.1 million people - are in insecure, low-paid work, according to new research.

• Junior doctors to vote on four-year pay deal

  Date:

  12 June 2019

  Type:

  News

  Junior doctors are to be balloted on whether to accept a four-year deal which will mean annual pay uplifts of 2%.

• Court of Appeal rules that voluntary overtime must be included in holiday pay

  Date:

  11 June 2019

  Type:

  Law reports

  In East of England Ambulance NHS Trust v Flowers and others, the Court of Appeal held that ambulance workers are contractually entitled to have voluntary overtime included in the calculation of their holiday pay and, under the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC), to have it included where it is sufficiently regular and settled.

• When does overtime have to be included in holiday pay?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Wider NHS pension reform needed to remove overtime deterrent

  Date:

  6 June 2019

  Type:

  News

  Plans to offer NHS doctors more flexible pensions will need to be part of wider reforms if the government wants to stop clinicians feeling forced to reduce their hours to avoid tax difficulties, the British Medical Association has warned.

• Half of staff support pay transparency to promote equality

  Date:

  3 June 2019

  Type:

  News

  More than half (56%) of staff would be happy for pay information to be made publicly available in order to tackle pay inequality.

• Proportion of workers in low-paid roles at a 40-year low

  Date:

  30 May 2019

  Type:

  News

  The government is on track to eliminate low pay by the middle of the next decade, analysis has found, after the proportion of workers in low-paid roles last year fell to its lowest since 1980.

• Overtime policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on Federación de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE, in which the ECJ held that EU law means that Spanish legislation should require employers to set up a system to record workers' actual daily working time.