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• Pay awards in 2010: Will UK workers continue to accept pay restraint?

  The willingness of UK workers to accept severe pay restraint - in many cases involving pay freezes - has helped many employers minimise job cuts and weather the worst of the 2008/2009 recession. However, with tentative economic recovery now underway and... Posted Mar 15 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, pay freeze, unions, david cameron

• RPI inflation shows further strong growth, hitting 3.7% in January 2010

  Retail prices index (RPI) inflation has registered a third consecutive month of very strong growth (external website), with the increase in VAT serving to contribute to rising prices in January 2010, according to the latest official data release from... Posted Feb 16 2010, 09:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: inflation, bank of england, economics

• Inflation Report February 2010: "Slow recovery" and "uncertainty" in prospect

  The latest quarterly Inflation Report from the Bank of England (PDF format, 3.4MB) (external website) provides much for economic commentators to pick over. While the Bank of England expects the UK's return to economic growth to be sustained, a dominant... Posted Feb 10 2010, 12:30 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay awards, inflation, bank of england, economics, unemployment

• 2010: the year pay and RPI inflation part ways?

  Retail prices index (RPI) inflation is long established as a key factor influencing private sector pay awards. But with pay awards subdued at present, and inflation set to prove volatile over the coming months, could 2010 prove to be the year in which... Posted Jan 28 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, pay freeze

• Spike in RPI inflation intensifies

  After spending most of 2009 stuck in negative territory, retail prices index (RPI) inflation has shown strong growth for a second successive month (PDF format, 210.7K) (external website), according to latest official data. Read More... Posted Jan 19 2010, 09:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: inflation, economics, stagflation

• National minimum wage 2010/2011: Freeze younger workers' rates, says CIPD

  The national minimum wage rates paid to workers aged under 21 should be frozen at their current level (PDF format, 1.5MB) (external website) when the 2010/2011 national minimum wage uprating comes into effect on 1 October 2010, according to the CIPD.... Posted Jan 05 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, inflation, general election, national minimum wage, recession, unemployment, pay freeze, cipd, younger workers

• RPI inflation: Back in black for 2010

  After spending much of 2009 in negative territory, retail prices index (RPI) inflation has risen sharply, climbing out of the red and back into the black to see out the calendar year. Read More... Posted Dec 17 2009, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, bank of england, economics

• National minimum wage: How the 2009/2010 increase measures up

  The 2009/2010 national minimum wage increase - which saw the adult rate rise by 1.2% to £5.80 per hour when it came into effect on 1 October 2009 - was the lowest since a statutory minimum wage was introduced in April 1999. But now that the key economic... Posted Dec 08 2009, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, national minimum wage

• Pay awards lifted as national minimum wage rise takes effect

  Pay awards have risen over the past quarter, with some help from the 1.2% increase to the national minimum wage that took effect on 1 October 2009, according to the latest analysis from IRS appearing on XpertHR today [subscription required]. Basic pay... Posted Nov 20 2009, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, national minimum wage, economic indicators, pay freeze

• Important rulings on amount of compensation tribunals can award

  Two significant rulings have been given on the amount of compensation that employment tribunals can award, concerning the assessment of loss for employees who suffer a stigma when looking for a new job as a result of having brought a discrimination claim... Posted Nov 19 2009, 12:27 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: equal opportunities, inflation, employment tribunals, compensation

• RPI inflation rises to -0.8%

  Retail prices index (RPI) inflation stands at -0.8% (PDF format, 203.7K) (external website), according to latest official data published today. The headline rate of inflation therefore remains parked in negative territory for an eighth consecutive month... Posted Nov 17 2009, 09:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay awards, inflation, economics, pay prospects

• Gender pay gap narrows to 12.2% in 2009

  Progress towards closing the gender pay gap resumed in the year to April 2009 (PDF format, 147.8K) (external website), according to headline findings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2009, published today. Read More... Posted Nov 12 2009, 09:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, ons, equal pay, pay awards, inflation, gender pay gap

• Inflation Report November 2009: Economic recovery is "likely"

  The UK economy looks set to return to growth over "the coming quarters", according to the Bank of England's November 2009 Inflation Report (PDF format, 2.8MB) (external website) - which provides the latest snapshot of the Bank of England's... Posted Nov 11 2009, 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: ons, pay awards, inflation, bank of england, economics, general election, recession, unemployment, pre-budget report, pay freeze

• RPI inflation notches up six months in negative territory

  Retail prices index (RPI) inflation once again remains in negative territory (PDF format, 60.7K) (external website), according to latest official data published today (Tuesday 13 October 2009). It is now six months since RPI went negative in April 2009... Posted Oct 13 2009, 10:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: inflation, bank of england, economics, monetary policy committee

• The curious incident of the subdued pay awards (2009 edition)

  The words of Sherlock Holmes regarding " the curious incident of the dog in the night-time " (external website) have once again been alluded to with reference to pay awards. Describing the failure of summer 2008 warnings of a wage-price spiral... Posted Oct 09 2009, 08:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, wage-price spiral, sherlock holmes