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Alistair Darling: Budget 2010 in March; election in May; "toughest" spending cuts in 20 years thereafter?

Labour is planning a post-election Comprehensive Spending Review which will prove to be "the toughest we have had for 20 years", according to an interview with Chancellor Alistair Darling (external website) published in the Times on Saturday...

Published 11 Jan 2010 7:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: public sector, pay awards, economics, general election, labour party, alistair darling, budget, pre-budget report, public spending

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

Extended flexible leave on Labour agenda

It appears that the Labour government is dreaming up new schemes to extend flexible working beyond the current parental rights agenda. According to newspaper reports , the party's pre-election manifesto includes a measure that would give workers the...

Published 2 Oct 2009 1:40 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights, flexible working, labour party

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

Flying pickets and green shop stewards - Labour's choices

Although it appears to be increasingly unlikely that the next government will be a Labour one, particularly in the wake of yesterday's Glasgow East by-election result , the policies that such an administration would follow are being thrashed out in...

Published 25 Jul 2008 2:23 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, flexible working, equality audit, labour party, secondary action, gordon brown

Unions set out wish list for Labour's fourth term

Remember the Warwick Agreement? It was the 2004 deal between trade union leaders and ministers over the future shape of employment policy that formed the basis of Labour's 2005 general election manifesto. Well, "Warwick Two" is now on the...

Published 16 Jun 2008 1:07 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights, trade unions, industrial action, tupe, general election, strikes, national minimum wage, equality audit, labour party, warwick agreement

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