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Public sector pay 2009: 1.5% pay increases for many senior public sector workers

Hard times for the public sector in 2009. Many senior public sector workers will receive a 1.5% pay increase (on the Number 10 website) with effect from 1 April 2009, Gordon Brown announced today. Read More...

Published 31 Mar 2009 9:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, public sector, pay awards, pay review bodies, gordon brown, nhs

MPs 2009 pay rise announced

MPs will receive a 2.33% pay rise from 1 April 2009, bringing their basic pay to around £64,766 a year. The increase is based on (subscription required) the average increase paid to 15 key civil service groups. Read More...

Published 31 Mar 2009 5:08 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, pay review bodies, gordon brown

Government response to flexible working consultation

The right to request flexible woking is being extended to parents of children under 17 on 6 April 2009 - that much was confirmed by the publication of the legislation amending the eligibility regulations two weeks ago . But, with no response from the...

Published 31 Mar 2009 12:57 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: flexible working

This month's top 10 HR questions - March 2009

One of the top 10 HR questions throughout March is: what's the difference between "unfair dismissal" and "wrongful dismissal"? Interestingly the same question has cropped up in the top 10 HR questions before - back in March 2008...

Published 31 Mar 2009 10:33 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: maternity leave, contractual terms, contracts, disciplinary procedures, maternity pay, sickness, dismissal, notice periods, unfair dismissal, resignation, working time, wrongful dismissal

Can the 2009 Acas discipline and grievance code live up to Acas's expectations?

Writing in an article on the Times website , the Acas dispute resolution review programme manager refers to the repeal of the statutory dispute resolution procedures in April 2009 as having the "potential to have a positive and wide-ranging impact...

Published 30 Mar 2009 7:27 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: grievances, dispute resolution, disciplinary procedures, acas, dismissal, witness

IRS discipline and grievance masterclass

It's always good to get out to a conference, sit in a room of HR professionals and hear exactly what's concerning them - and yesterday's IRS discipline and grievance masterclass at the Cumberland Hotel in London was no exception. Read More...

Published 27 Mar 2009 7:03 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: termination of employment, employee rights, information sources, grievances, dispute resolution, disciplinary procedures, acas, sickness, mediation

Pregnant Workers Directive: BERR consultation

BERR has published a consultation seeking views on European Commission proposals to amend the Pregnant Workers Directive. Read More...

Published 26 Mar 2009 2:55 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights, maternity leave, maternity pay, pregnancy

Model disciplinary procedure updated for 6 April 2009

With the new "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" having been finalised , now is the ideal time to review your disciplinary procedure in advance of the repeal of the statutory dispute resolution procedures. XpertHR's...

Published 26 Mar 2009 9:31 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights, disciplinary procedures, acas

Graduates face pay freezes and fierce competition for jobs in 2009

Six months ago we looked at why it didn't pay to be a graduate in 2008 . Things haven't exactly improved for graduates in the interim. The impact of the recession means that new graduates entering the labour market in 2009 face dwindling vacancies...

Published 26 Mar 2009 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, recruitment, graduate recruitment, recession, pay freeze

Public sector pay deals will be honoured

NHS workers and police officers will receive the pay increases agreed as part of long-term deals struck last year, the Government has confirmed. Read More...

Published 25 Mar 2009 11:55 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, public sector, pay awards, pay freeze

Zero inflation in 2009 means positive real earnings growth

At last, a rare spot of metaphorical sunshine amid all the economic gloom! There is a silver lining to yesterday's official figures which found that February 2009 saw retail prices index (RPI) inflation fall to zero : collapsing inflation in 2009...

Published 25 Mar 2009 7:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay rates, pay and benefits, inflation, economics, deflation, real earnings growth

Rights for grandparents who do working parents' role?

"Granny holidays" for working grandparents who look after their grandchildren while their parents are at work is one of the suggestions in a report by charity Grandparents Plus, according to the BBC . Do grandparents have any right to paid or...

Published 25 Mar 2009 6:35 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: flexible working, time off, grandparents

2009 to see 'spring and summer of pay depression', says CIPD

Today's announcement of zero inflation on the retail prices index (RPI) measure for February 2009 will have a severe impact on pay awards settling over the remainder of 2009 (external website) according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and...

Published 24 Mar 2009 1:30 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, economics, pay freeze, cipd, deflation, pay cut

RPI inflation falls to 0% in February 2009

Retail prices index (RPI) inflation has fallen to nil (subscription required) according to latest official figures for the 12 months to February 2009 published today (Tuesday 24 March 2009). Today's data show a fifth consecutive monthly fall in RPI...

Published 24 Mar 2009 10:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, bank of england, economics, deflation

Prison officer dismissed after befriending inmates on Facebook

A prison officer in Leicester has been dismissed for gross misconduct after it emerged that he was using the social networking site Facebook to make friends with inmates and former prisoners. Read More...

Published 24 Mar 2009 9:50 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: termination of employment, gross misconduct, social networking

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