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General election 2010: Brown says national minimum wage "will reach £7" per hour by end of next Parliament in 2015

Prime minister Gordon Brown has stated that if the Labour party wins the 2010 general election, the national minimum wage "will reach £7 [per hour] on reasonable assumptions by the end of the Parliament" (external website). This was part of...

Published 4 May 2010 11:03 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, general election, national minimum wage, gordon brown, low pay commission, living wage

General election 2010: David Cameron hits out at Metropolitan Police HR 'waste'

The HR profession has found itself the target of increased criticism and scrutiny during 2010. Examples include Times columnist Sathnam Sanghera's attack on public sector HR professionals as particularly "grossly overpaid" and last week's...

Published 16 Apr 2010 1:22 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: public sector, general election, alistair darling, gordon brown, hr policy and strategy, budget, public spending, HR, police, david cameron

Public sector pay restraint in 2010: A taste of things to come?

The announcement last month of pay freezes for some senior civil servants, and low pay increases for many other public sector workers (the complexities of which are explained here by IRS pay and benefits editor Sarah Welfare) could represent an overture...

Published 7 Apr 2010 8:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, public sector, pay awards, industrial action, gordon brown, pay freeze

General election 2010: Gordon Brown sets election date for Thursday 6 May 2010

The 2010 general election campaign is at last officially underway. To no-one's great surprise, Gordon Brown visited Buckingham Palace today (Tuesday 6 April 2010) in order to call for Parliament to be dissolved, thereby enabling him to call the general...

Published 6 Apr 2010 11:51 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: economics, general election, gordon brown

Economic outlook: Why the next decade could be a DRAG

The economic outlook for the coming decade as a whole could prove a "DRAG" (external website), with little prospect of a return to pre-recession growth levels for the time being, and the spectre remaining of another collapse into recession or...

Published 6 Apr 2010 8:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay awards, inflation, economics, general election, gordon brown, recession, unemployment, public spending, stagflation

2010 public sector pay freeze not as simple as it sounds

Despite the public sector pay freezes announced yesterday (see the coverage in the Guardian , Telegraph and Financial Times , plus the reactions from the First Division Association and the British Medical Association , all on external websites) many public...

Published 11 Mar 2010 3:15 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, public sector, gordon brown, pay freeze

Prime Minister confirms 2010 pay freeze for senior public servants

As well as announcing the date of the 2010 Budget , the Prime Minister also made some announcements on public sector pay this morning. In his speech on the economy , he confirmed that there would be no pay rises for senior civil servants, the senior military...

Published 10 Mar 2010 12:43 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

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

Recession refuses to thaw in time for Christmas 2009

The UK economy is inching slowly back towards recovery, but remains in recession (external website) for now. Growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is still stuck in negative territory in the third quarter of 2009, latest data from the Office for National...

Published 22 Dec 2009 9:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: economics, gordon brown, recession, christmas, gdp

Could the recession be over in time for Christmas?

The UK economy remains mired in what is proving to be the longest recession on record , with latest official estimates showing gross domestic product (GDP) growth still stuck in negative territory in the third quarter of 2009. But is there a possibility...

Published 3 Dec 2009 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: bank of england, economics, alistair darling, gordon brown, recession, christmas, gdp

UK recession drags on... for now

The UK economy remains in recession (PDF format, 159.9K) (external website), with growth in gross domestic product (GDP) still stuck in negative territory in the third quarter of 2009, according to official data from the Office for National Statistics...

Published 25 Nov 2009 9:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: bank of england, economics, gordon brown, monetary policy committee, recession, gdp

What will the 2010 general election mean for the national minimum wage?

The October 2009 national minimum wage uprating marked the lowest increase to the statutory pay floor yet seen. The focus is now on what can be expected from the 2010/2011 national minimum wage increase , which will come into effect from 1 October 2010...

Published 22 Oct 2009 8:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, national minimum wage, labour party, gordon brown, conservative party, david cameron

National minimum wage: Brown promises increases for 2010 to 2014

The national minimum wage will rise each year between 2010 and 2014 (external website) if Labour wins the 2010 general election, according to Gordon Brown in his speech to the Labour party conference in Brighton yesterday Tuesday (29 September 2009)....

Published 30 Sep 2009 8:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, general election, national minimum wage, labour party, cbi, gordon brown

What will the public spending "squeeze" mean for public sector pay in 2010?

The UK faces the "tightest squeeze" on public spending since the 1970s (PDF format, 382.7K) , according to research published on the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) website. The impact on public sector pay awards for 2010 and beyond could...

Published 18 Sep 2009 9:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, tuc, public sector, pay awards, economics, alistair darling, gordon brown, pre-budget report, public spending

Gordon Brown set to go public on public spending cuts

Gordon Brown's TUC conference speech later today (15 September 2009) is expected to mark the first time that the word "cuts" is publicly used by a senior Labour figure with regard to the current focus on the future of public spending. Read...

Published 15 Sep 2009 8:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, tuc, public sector, pay awards, economics, gordon brown, public spending

Economic outlook July 2009: Keep on the sunny side?

As a new month gets underway, and with summer in full swing (subscription required), the July 2009 economic commentary from CELRE - XpertHR's salary surveys unit - looks in detail at the prospects for the UK economy, and whether claims that we are...

Published 1 Jul 2009 7:29 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay awards, inflation, economics, gordon brown, economic indicators, recession, unemployment

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