2004 index – issues 896 to 919

Earnings statistics Employee benefits Employee consultation Equal pay First-aid payments Flexible working Guaranteed week Harmonisation Holiday changes Homeworking Hours changes Housing for key workers

Earnings statistics
Average earnings reach £26,989 for full-time employees R917 / 2
Improved earnings methodology produces a few surprises R916 / 2
January earnings growth soars to 8.9 per cent in private services R902 / 3
New Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) to replace NES R907 / 3
Only modest regional earnings variation outside London and South East R918 / 2
Public sector pay in 2004... and the agenda for 2005 R911 / 9

Employee benefits
Pay in hotels: National Minimum Wage rise has significant effect on differentials R903 / 9
Booker Cash and Carry R906 / 5
Honda R906 / 3

Equal pay
Employers move on equal pay: Tackling gender pay gaps in the workplace R897 / 10
Employers move on equal pay: Tackling gender pay gaps in the workplace R897 / 13
Employers move on equal pay: Tackling gender pay gaps in the workplace R897 / 16
Employers move on equal pay: Tackling gender pay gaps in the workplace R897 / 17
EOC reports one fifth of employers are checking pay systems are fair R903 / 3
Equal pay: Gender pay gap is widest in the financial sector R918 / 16
Gender pay gap narrows in 2004 R917 / 3
New local government proposal of 8.9 per cent over three years R907 / 7
New policy agenda being set for 2005 R911 / 2
New Women and Work Commission to address gender pay gap R911 / 3
Pay for engineering workers: Survey shows rising pay for multi-skilled craft workers and sales engineers R912 / 5
Pay in the civil service 2003/04 R899 / 9
Public sector pay in 2004... and the agenda for 2005 R911 / 9
Should there be a minimum wage for 16 and 17-year olds? R896 / 2
Tasks set for Women and Work Commission R915 / 3
Understanding reward: Conducting an equal pay review and examining the results R908 / 12
Understanding reward: How companies operate with job family pay structures R902 / 14
Understanding reward: The long-term decline and surprising re-birth of age-related pay R912 / 15
Understanding reward: The pros and cons of market-related pay R907 / 8
What are the key reward issues for 2004? R900 / 2
Acas R913 / 4
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council R900 / 14
Crawley Borough Council R905 / 12
Local authorities R904 / 7
Local authorities (England & Wales) R910 / 5

First aid payments
First aid allowances: Survey shows a broad range of first aid payments R905 / 16
Alvis Vickers R910 / 20
B&Q R905 / 21
Flat Glass Industry NJC R901 / 24
Focus R919 / 25
Pork Farms Bowyers R906 / 23
Todd & Duncan R906 / 24

Flexible working
Pay for engineering workers: Survey shows rising pay for multi-skilled craft workers and sales engineers R912 / 5
Agricultural Wages Board (England & Wales) R917 / 25
Aston Martin R902 / 4
BAE SYSTEMS Air Systems R911 / 22
Bentley Motors R902 / 19
Boots Contract Manufacturing R915 / 25
Bristol-Myers Squibb R919 / 7
British Gas R907 / 18
British Gas R905 / 10
Jaguar Cars (manuals) R918 / 22
Land Rover R919 / 18, R917 / 5, R907 / 21, R900 / 5
Powertrain R898 / 29
Rolls Royce R912 / 13
Scottish Water R898 / 30
SKF (UK) R908 / 4

Guaranteed week
IBC Vehicles R896 / 22

Harmonisation
Local government pay benchmarking survey: New moves on local implementation of single status pay and grading R898 / 12
NHS Agenda for Change pilots: Early implementer trusts find new system brings benefits and problems R907 / 10
Pay in electricity: Power generation pay deals reflect industry restructuring R897 / 20
Understanding reward: Harmonisation: aligning pay and conditions for different groups of staff R903 / 13
British Nuclear Fuels R898 / 4
Crawley Borough Council R905 / 12
Further education colleges R917 / 6
Local authorities R904 / 7
Philips Lighting R907 / 5
Scottish Water R898 / 7, R898 / 30
Severn Trent Water R917 / 23

Holiday changes
Pay in the civil service 2003/04 R899 / 9
AF Blakemore and Son R900 / 19
Agricultural Wages Board (England & Wales) R911 / 4
Bentley Motors R902 / 6
Bentley Motors R902 / 19
The Blue Cross R899 / 8
Booker Cash and Carry R906 / 5
Britannia Building Society R915 / 23
Greggs R899 / 7
Honda R906 / 3
Iceland R906 / 22
Jaguar Cars (manuals) R918 / 22
Kwik-Fit R898 / 7
Lace Housing Association R901 / 5
London Underground R919 / 5
MG Rover R896 / 26
OCS Cleaning R906 / 4
Pioneer Electronics Technology UK R897 / 28
Pork Farms Bowyers R906 / 23
Registered clubs and associations R897 / 33
Road Haulage Scotland JIC R906 / 25
Serco Docklands R899 / 4
Smiths Aerospace R919 / 4
Sony Manufacturing UK R897 / 27, R896 / 9
Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) R907 / 17, R903 / 5

Homeworking
Changes to NMW rules for homeworkers and pieceworkers R901 / 3

Hours changes
Pay for engineering workers: Survey shows rising pay for multi-skilled craft workers and sales engineers R912 / 5
Pay for Nursery Nurses in Scotland: Local deals reached for nursery nurses in Scotland following strike action R909 / 12
AF Blakemore and Son R900 / 19
EWS R903 / 18
Jaguar Cars R917 / 5
Jaguar Cars (manuals) R918 / 22
Kwik-Fit R898 / 7
Land Rover R919 / 18
Local Government Services NJC R912 / 24
London Underground R919 / 5, R917 / 20, R913 / 7
National Blood Service R915 / 6
Network Rail R915 / 21, R911 / 7
Nexus R917 / 3
Nissan R905 / 22
Octel R908 / 22
Royal Mail R913 / 21
Thales Communication Services R900 / 7

Housing for key workers
Government extends housing aid scheme for key public sector workers R904 / 3