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Pay & benefits
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All eight job sectors showed an increased demand for temporary/contract workers in January 2006, according to the NTC Economics monthly...
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The CBI has urged the government not to enforce compulsory pension contributions from employers as recommended by the Pensions Commission.Under...
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One in four workers in the UK has a second job to help make ends meet, according to research.
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CBI comes up with alternative pensions proposals.
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The Armed Forces will get an above-inflation pay rise of 3%, defence secretary John Reid has announced
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Department store group John Lewis Partnership is investing an extra £1m in a scheme that gives long-serving employees a six-month paid sabbatical
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Aberdeen City Council is facing the prospect of two strikes over its continuing equal pay row with unions
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Chief executives in the NHS have seen their salaries increase between 3.5% and 5% in the past year.
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Manufacturing pay settlements have fallen to their lowest level for more than two years, according to the EEF manufacturers' organisation
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A London Underground cleaning contract thought to be worth more than £20m was terminated after it emerged that the contractor was underpaying its staff
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Employers will be keeping a close eye on a test case to be heard by the House of Lords today which could lead to part-time workers obtaining access to occupational pension schemes
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TUC general secretary Brendan Barber has labelled business chiefs who criticised the government for allowing public sector workers to claim their pensions at 60 as "hypocrites"
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Accusations that the National Pensions Saving Scheme (NPSS) proposed by the Pensions Commission is Stalinist are "absurd", according to the commission's chair
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Employers that exclude new recruits from final salary pension schemes and offer inferior schemes instead could be sitting on a legal 'volcano', experts have warned