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• Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 06.03.10 to 19.03.10

  A round up of links to news items on recent employment tribunal rulings, including: an unsuccessful age discrimination claim by a TV journalist; the first decision on trade union blacklisting; and an award for a chip shop worker who was dismissed for... Posted Mar 19 2010, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, equal opportunities, termination of employment, employee rights, sex discrimination, redundancy, national minimum wage, employment tribunals, dismissal, pregnancy, unfair dismissal, blacklisting, age discrimination, lay-offs

• Pay awards: Has the 'national minimum wage effect' gone into reverse?

  As well as a collapse in the headline pay award back to the record low of zero , latest data from reward specialists at IRS suggest a change in the way the national minimum wage influences the headline pay settlement. Read More... Posted Mar 10 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, national minimum wage, pay freeze

• National minimum wage: Announcement on 2010/2011 rate likely "within a couple of weeks"

  The 2010 report from the Low Pay Commission (LPC) - which will set out its recommendations on the national minimum wage rates for 2010/2011 (due to come into effect on 1 October 2010) - is likely to be published "within a couple of weeks", an... Posted Feb 26 2010, 10:50 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, general election, national minimum wage, budget

• National minimum wage 2010/2011: "Absurd" to increase younger workers' rates, say CIPD/BCC

  " hile the government is rightly devoting taxpayers' money to helping Britain's one million jobless young people, it would be absurd at the same time to raise the youth minimum wage," according to CIPD chief economic advisor John Philpott... Posted Jan 22 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, general election, national minimum wage, cipd, personal injury, national insurance contributions

• 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

• 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

• National minimum wage: 2009/2010 increase could result in job cuts, says CBI

  The 2009/2010 increase to the national minimum wage - which resulted in a 1.2% rise in the national minimum wage adult rate to £5.80 per hour - could result in job cuts (PDF format, 10MB) (external website), according to the CBI. Read More... Posted Nov 19 2009, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, national minimum wage, cbi

• Nearly 1% of UK jobs still pay below national minimum wage in 2009

  Almost one in every 100 UK jobs pays less than the national minimum wage (PDF format, 97K) (external website), according to preliminary findings on low pay 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, national minimum wage, low pay

• National minimum wage 2010/2011: TUC calls for £6 per hour adult rate and proposes apprentice rates

  The national minimum wage adult rate should be increased by 3.5% to stand at £6.00 per hour (external website) in 2010/2011, according to the TUC's latest submission to the Low Pay Commission (LPC). The TUC's submission also sets out proposals... Posted Nov 02 2009, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, tuc, national minimum wage, lpc, apprentice

• Government should not focus on raising national minimum wage in 2010/2011, says CBI

  The Government should "boost minimum wage enforcement efforts [in 2010/2011] rather than focussing on a rise in the level", according to the CBI's recommendations for the Pre-Budget Report 2009 (PDF format, 143K) (external website). Read... Posted Oct 28 2009, 07:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, national minimum wage, cbi, alistair darling, pre-budget report

• 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... Posted Oct 22 2009, 08:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, national minimum wage, labour party, gordon brown, conservative party, david cameron

• The UK minimum wage is (arguably) 100 years old today

  This year has already seen the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the national minimum wage, which was introduced just over a decade ago, in April 1999. But our colleagues at CELRE - XpertHR's specialist salary surveys unit - note that today... Posted Oct 20 2009, 08:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, national minimum wage, winston churchill, trade boards act 1909

• National minimum wage: EEF calls for formula to decide future increases

  A formula to determine future national minimum wage increases (external website) should be introduced to provide employers with "some form of certainty about its potential impact", according to EEF, the manufacturers' organisation. Read... Posted Oct 12 2009, 08:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, national minimum wage, eef

• Why the 2009/2010 national minimum wage increase is outperforming most pay awards

  The 2009/2010 national minimum wage increase, which came into effect last week, is significantly lower than those seen in recent years. Yet when measured against the latest trends in pay awards, it could almost be argued to represent a competitive increase... Posted Oct 06 2009, 08:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, national minimum wage, pay freeze, low pay commission