2003 index – issues 872 to 895
Subject index
Inflation forecasts 
Information and consultation Job evaluation Labour markets Labour turnover London and south-east allowances Location allowances – other Long-term agreements Low pay
| Inflation forecasts |
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HICP: explaining the Government's new target measure of inflation |
R884 / 3 |
Implications of proposed regional inflation data |
R880 / 2 |
Inflation forecasts to March 2003 |
R877 / 2 |
Late August 2003 |
R890 / 5 |
Late November 2003 |
R895 / 2 |
May 2003 |
R883 / 2 |
The outlook for 2003: inflation pay rises, earnings and jobs |
R873 / 2 |
Information and consultation |
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| Information and consultation: Compass makes early move on new employee consultation arrangements | R883 / 15 |
New TUC figures show more recognition agreements |
R877 / 16 |
Job evaluation |
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| Job evaluation and equal pay are key in NHS pay reform | R872 / 2 |
| Job evaluation is alive and well despite market-driven pay | R875 / 2 |
| Local government pay benchmarking survey | R874 / 12 |
| Local government pay benchmarking survey | R874 / 12 |
| Pay modernisation in the NHS | R884 / 16 |
| Proposed new pay system for the NHS sets Agenda for Change | R872 / 10 |
| Local authorities (Scotland) | R876 / 26 |
| Network Rail | R872 / 6 |
| Universities | R894 / 9 |
Labour markets |
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| Employment hits record levels despite losses in manufacturing | R887 / 2 |
| Gordon Brown launches review of regional cost-of-living data | R878 / 2 |
| The labour market | R873 / 35 |
| The labour market:: employment rises across UK but unevenly within the regions | R878 / 16 |
| The labour market: Public sector job gains continue to offset manufacturing losses | R890 / 26 |
| More optimistic signals on the economy lift job prospects | R892 / 2 |
| The outlook for 2003: inflation pay rises, earnings and jobs | R873 / 2 |
| Pay differentiation in the public sector: location allowances and recruitment and retention payments | R880 / 12 |
| Regional pay: getting the balance right between national and local | R872 / 14 |
Labour turnover |
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| Pay in pubs and restaurants | R876 / 16 |
London & south east allowances |
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| Disputes over London weighting in local government and Royal Mail | R892 / 7 |
| Local Government Pay Commission report | R894 / 16 |
| More clarity emerges on regional pay | R890 / 9 |
| Pay and conditions for care staff | R895 / 17 |
| Pay differentiation in the public sector: location allowances and recruitment and retention payments | R880 / 12 |
| Pay in pubs and restaurants | R876 / 16 |
| Pay in the retail sector | R889 / 18 |
| Pay modernisation in the NHS | R884 / 16 |
| Police staffing shortages put South East allowances under strain | R876 / 8 |
| Proposed new pay system for the NHS sets Agenda for Change | R872 / 10 |
| Regional pay | R895 / 21 |
| Regional pay: getting the balance right between national and local | R872 / 14 |
| Thames Valley Police pays extra £1000 to retain officers in area bordering London | R885 / 12 |
| Age Concern England | R884 / 30 |
| Alliance and Leicester | R891 / 24 |
| Argos | R881 / 5 |
| Audit Commission | R872 / 8 |
| BBC | R888 / 30 |
| Blue Cross | R882 / 31 |
| Blue Cross | R878 / 8 |
| British Nuclear Fuels | R883 / 30 |
| British Nuclear Fuels | R882 / 7 |
| British Waterways | R895 / 28 |
| BT | R879 / 9 |
| Comet | R889 / 8 |
| Customs and Excise | R875 / 29 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | R875 / 27 |
| Department for Work and Pensions | R872 / 4 |
| Department of Trade and Industry | R895 / 5 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | R877 / 29 |
| Environmental engineering industry | R886 / 33 |
| Home Office | R876 / 30 |
| Home Office | R873 / 4 |
| House of Fraser | R882 / 22 |
| HSBC | R881 / 3 |
| HSBC | R881 / 22 |
| Jewish Care | R882 / 29 |
| Leonard Cheshire | R888 / 32 |
| Local authorities (England & Wales) | R879 / 26 |
| Ministry of Defence | R872 / 27 |
| National Air Traffic Services | R876 / 23 |
| National Care Standards Commission | R879 / 8 |
| National Grid Transco | R894 / 26 |
| National Grid Transco | R889 / 4 |
| Network Rail | R882 / 27 |
| Next | R879 / 21 |
| NHS administrative & clerical staff | R886 / 31 |
| NHS ambulance staff | R886 / 30 |
| NHS ancillary staff | R887 / 29 |
| NHS healthcare pharmacists | R889 / 32 |
| NHS maintenance staff | R893 / 32 |
| NHS nurses, midwives & health visitors | R885 / 30 |
| NHS professions allied to medicine | R888 / 28 |
| Police | R893 / 29 |
| Police | R887 / 7 |
| Police support staff (England & Wales) | R888 / 8 |
| Prison Service (England & Wales) | R878 / 25 |
| Prison Service (England & Wales) | R877 / 5 |
| Rosebys | R887 / 27 |
| Royal Mail | R895 / 8 |
| Royal Mail | R889 / 9 |
| Safeway | R881 / 4 |
| Sainsbury | R893 / 26 |
| Schuh | R881 / 9 |
| Shaftesbury Society | R883 / 31 |
| Teachers (England & Wales) | R894 / 10 |
| Teachers (England & Wales) | R876 / 3 |
| Fresh thinking emerges on London allowances Teachers (England & Wales) | R876 / 2 |
| Tesco | R891 / 20 |
| Thresher | R889 / 27 |
| Waitrose | R884 / 8 |
| Waterstone's | R885 / 22 |
| Woolworths | R895 / 27 |
Location allowances – other |
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| Gordon Brown launches review of regional cost-of-living data | R878 / 2 |
| More clarity emerges on regional pay | R890 / 9 |
| Regional pay: getting the balance right between national and local | R872 / 14 |
| Argos | R881 / 5 |
| House of Fraser | R882 / 22 |
| HSBC | R881 / 3 |
| HSBC | R881 / 22 |
| Kwik-Fit | R877 / 4 |
| Next | R879 / 7 |
| Next | R879 / 21 |
| Rosebys | R887 / 27 |
| Safeway | R881 / 4 |
| Wilkinson | R882 / 4 |
Long term agreements |
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| Long-term pay deals now the norm in the public sector | R885 / 2 |
| Multi-year deals set pay rises of 3 to 4 per cent in 2004 | R890 / 19 |
| Pay in the car industry | R873 / 9 |
| Pay in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries | R891 / 10 |
| Pay in the civil service | R875 / 9 |
| Pay on the railways | R883 / 17 |
| Public sector pay in 2003 | R887 / 9 |
| A&P Southampton | R879 / 6 |
| Agricultural Wages Board (England & Wales) | R882 / 6 |
| Airbus UK | R877 / 25 |
| Allied Distillers | R880 / 28 |
| Allied Distillers | R879 / 6 |
| Aston Martin Lagonda | R894 / 6 |
| Audit Commission | R872 / 8 |
| BAA | R877 / 26 |
| BAA | R876 / 7 |
| Babcock Rosyth Dockyard | R887 / 23 |
| Babcock Rosyth Dockyard | R886 / 5 |
| Barclays Bank | R873 / 4 |
| BBC | R888 / 4 |
| BBC | R888 / 30 |
| BMW | R894 / 7 |
| BMW Hams Hall | R895 / 26 |
| BMW Oxford | R894 / 20 |
| Bombardier Aerospace Shorts | R877 / 6 |
| Bombardier Aerospace Shorts | R877 / 22 |
| Building brick and allied industries | R888 / 33 |
| Building brick and allied industries | R886 / 5 |
| Caterpillar UK | R895 / 23 |
| Caterpillar UK | R894 / 9 |
| Caterpillar UK | R886 / 23 |
| Caterpillar UK | R885 / 3 |
| Coca Cola Enterprises | R881 / 7 |
| Construction industry | R885 / 32 |
| Dairy Crest Group | R874 / 3 |
| Department for Education and Skills | R893 / 7 |
| Docklands Light Rail | R873 / 4 |
| Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | R877 / 29 |
| ECS Metering and Data Services | R893 / 24 |
| ECS Metering and Data Services | R888 / 5 |
| Electrical contracting industry (England, Wales, Northern Ireland)) | R895 / 32 |
| Electrical contracting industry (England, Wales, Northern Ireland) | R874 / 32 |
| Engineering construction industry | R879 / 3 |
| Environmental engineering industry | R886 / 33 |
| EWS Railways | R881 / 4 |
| Firefighters | R894 / 11 |
| Firefighters | R884 / 7 |
| Flat glass industry | R876 / 32 |
| Footwear manufacturing industry | R883 / 32 |
| Ford Motor Company | R895 / 5 |
| Ford Motor Company | R875 / 19 |
| Ford Motor Company | R874 / 28 |
| Forestry Commission | R891 / 4 |
| Forestry Commission | R876 / 28 |
| Further education colleges (England & Wales) | R895 / 8 |
| Further education colleges (England & Wales) | R888 / 9 |
| Goodrich Actuation Systems | R877 / 28 |
| Greggs | R875 / 4 |
| Heating, ventilating & domestic engineering industry | R895 / 9 |
| Holset Engineering | R892 / 3 |
| Holset Engineering | R892 / 32 |
| Honeywell | R872 / 23 |
| Hoover Candy | R882 / 20 |
| IBC Vehicles | R894 / 7 |
| Ilford Imaging | R888 / 9 |
| Inland Revenue | R875 / 24 |
| Innogy | R891 / 23 |
| Innogy | R879 / 5 |
| Jaguar Cars | R894 / 7 |
| Jaguar Cars | R884 / 24 |
| Lever Fabergé | R890 / 28 |
| Lever Fabergé | R889 / 5 |
| Leyland Trucks | R891 / 7 |
| Local authorities (England & Wales) | R879 / 26 |
| Local authorities (Scotland) | R876 / 26 |
| London Buses | R894 / 18 |
| Matsushita Electric UK | R882 / 23 |
| MG Rover | R894 / 7 |
| MG Rover | R883 / 5 |
| MG Rover | R883 / 24 |
| Ministry of Defence | R872 / 27 |
| National Air Traffic Services | R876 / 9 |
| National Air Traffic Services | R876 / 23 |
| National Grid Transco | R894 / 26 |
| Next | R879 / 7 |
| NHS administrative & clerical staff | R886 / 31 |
| NHS ambulance staff | R886 / 30 |
| NHS ancillary staff | R887 / 29 |
| NHS doctors & dentists | R885 / 5 |
| NHS healthcare pharmacists | R889 / 32 |
| NHS nurses, midwives & health visitors | R885 / 30 |
| Nissan | R895 / 5 |
| Nissan | R877 / 20 |
| Nissan | R876 / 11 |
| Northumbrian Water | R874 / 7 |
| Offshore diving industry | R875 / 31 |
| Perkins Engines | R884 / 23 |
| Perkins Engines | R882 / 4 |
| Peugeot Motor Company | R880 / 25 |
| Peugeot Motor Company | R879 / 22 |
| Peugeot Motor Company | R878 / 4 |
| Plumbing industry (Scotland & Northern Ireland) | R894 / 11 |
| Plumbing industry (Scotland & Northern Ireland) | R880 / 31 |
| PowerGen | R879 / 5 |
| Prison Service (Scotland) | R881 / 31 |
| Road haulage industry | R885 / 7 |
| Road haulage industry (Scotland) | R887 / 31 |
| RoadChef Motorways | R882 / 7 |
| Royal Mail | R895 / 8 |
| Royal Mail | R873 / 30 |
| ScotRail | R873 / 8 |
| Scottish and Southern Energy | R892 / 5 |
| Scottish Executive | R889 / 3 |
| Scottish Executive | R875 / 22 |
| Scottish Power Generation | R884 / 6 |
| Securicor Cash Services | R884 / 4 |
| Severn Trent Water | R886 / 24 |
| Sony Manufacturing UK | R885 / 24 |
| SP Power Systems | R879 / 5 |
| Steeplejack and lightning conductor engineers | R891 / 28 |
| Steeplejack and lightning conductor engineers | R888 / 7 |
| Surrey County Council | R895 / 30 |
| Surrey County Council | R892 / 6 |
| Swindon Pressings | R877 / 6 |
| Tandridge District Council | R880 / 29 |
| Tandridge District Council | R875 / 6 |
| Teachers (England & Wales) | R894 / 10 |
| Teachers (England & Wales) | R887 / 5 |
| Teachers (Scotland) | R873 / 8 |
| Thermal insulation contracting industry | R872 / 8 |
| Thermal insulation contracting industry | R872 / 33 |
| UK Atomic Energy Authority | R891 / 26 |
| United Distillers & Vintners | R879 / 4 |
| United Distillers & Vintners | R879 / 19 |
| Universities | R894 / 9 |
| Vauxhall Motors | R889 / 7 |
| Vosper Thornycroft | R879 / 6 |
| Vosper Thornycroft | R879 / 24 |
| Weir Valves and Controls | R887 / 28 |
| Western Power Distribution | R879 / 5 |
Low pay |
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| Campaign for a 'living wage' | R878 / 9 |
| Drop in numbers paid less than NMW | R894 / 4 |
| Gender pay gap narrows | R895 / 11 |
| Local Government Pay Commission: contrasting approaches in council employers' and unions' evidence | R882 / 18 |
| Public sector pay in 2003 | R887 / 9 |
| Rising trend in inequality revealed as more earn below the average | R874 / 2 |
| Blue Cross | R878 / 8 |
| EWS Railways | R883 / 29 |
| Local authorities (England & Wales) | R872 / 5 |