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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

• 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... Posted Mar 10 2010, 12:43 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, public sector, pay awards, gordon brown, pay freeze

• 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

• Pay awards: Three-fifths of UK workers expect a pay freeze in 2010

  Pay freezes look as if they're here to stay in 2010. Around three-fifths (57%) of UK workers do not expect to receive a pay increase in 2010 (external website), according to a YouGov survey commissioned by uSwitch, the BBC reports. Read More... Posted Mar 03 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, bank of england, pay freeze

• Economic outlook March 2010: Uncertain times for pay, inflation and jobs

  The UK economy's recovery from recession is now underway, but the outlook for growth (and for pay, jobs and unemployment) is anything but certain , according to latest analysis from XpertHR salary surveys. Read More... Posted Mar 01 2010, 07:35 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay awards, industrial action, economics, strikes, economic indicators, gdp, stagflation

• Recession hits top pay hard, National Management Salary Survey reveals

  The recession has had a severe impact on UK managers' pay packets , with executive pay showing its lowest rate of growth in at least a decade, according to latest pay benchmarking research from XpertHR salary surveys. Read More... Posted Feb 23 2010, 10:45 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: executive pay, salary surveys, pay and benefits, xperthr, pay awards, recession, management

• Pay awards collapse back to zero as 2010 gets underway

  Today sees many parts of the UK waking up to a return of heavy snow (external website). The outlook for pay awards across the whole economy is similarly wintry this morning, with pay freezes reasserting themselves as the median pay award. The headline... Posted Feb 19 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, xperthr, pay awards, irs, pay freeze

• Unemployment rate holds firm at 7.8%

  Unemployment remains high, yet the headline unemployment rate continues to surprise by refusing to budge from 7.8% (PDF format, 349.1K) (external website) for a third consecutive rolling quarter, latest official data published today reveal. Read More... Posted Feb 17 2010, 09:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay awards, economics, unemployment, pay freeze

• TUC: Unions willing to push for pay increases in 2010

  The recession has taken the heat out of pay awards, with pay freezes becoming the norm for many as employers, employees and unions worked together to minimise job losses by embracing pay restraint. But the TUC warns that trade unions may not be so willing... Posted Feb 16 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, tuc, trade unions, pay awards, pay freeze, unions, david cameron

• 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

• Mervyn King: "Little scope" for pay growth in 2010 and beyond

  The prognosis for pay awards across the UK economy in 2010 and beyond is less than rosy (PDF format, 47K) (external website) , according to Bank of England governor Mervyn King. Read More... Posted Feb 03 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, bank of england

• 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

• Public sector pay 2010: Pay cuts in prospect?

  Many public sector workers already face low pay increases or pay freezes in 2010. Now, in an interview with the Sunday Times, Chancellor Alistair Darling has indicated that public sector pay will be subject to " restructuring " (external website... Posted Jan 25 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, employee relations, public sector, pay awards, alistair darling, budget, pay freeze, pay cut

• Pay awards holding up at 1.2%

  Pay awards staged a slight recovery in the closing months of 2009 (subscription required), with the headline award standing at 1.2% over the three months to 31 December 2009, according to latest data from reward specialists at IRS. But the pay outlook... Posted Jan 22 2010, 09:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, pay freeze

• London is top destination for international jobseekers in 2010

  The UK economy may be proving exceptionally slow in emerging from recession, but this has not harmed the London's position in the global labour market. London is the number one destination city of choice for international jobseekers, according to... Posted Jan 21 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: recruitment, international, pay awards, migrant workers, recession