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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 inflation soaring, it remains to be seen if UK...

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 15-03-2010
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 the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 16-02-2010
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 theme of the report is the "uncertainty"...

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-02-2010
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 RPI and pay awards come uncoupled?

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 28-01-2010
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.

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 19-01-2010
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. The CIPD argues that freezing the statutory pay floor...

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-01-2010
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.

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 17-12-2009
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 indicators for October 2009 are in, how does the...

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2009
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 settlements were worth a median 1.2% in the three...

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 20-11-2009
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 against a previous employer and the amount of...

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 19-11-2009

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