Index 2005 – issues 920 to 943

Subject index A – C

Absence control Age-related pay Annual hours Apprentices Bargaining developments Bonus schemes Call-out & standby Childcare Competencies Contracting out

Absence control

• Absence survey: CBI data indicates steady decline of absence levels – 930 / 15
• Pay and conditions in call centres 2005: pay slowdown for advisers, but team leaders do better – 937 / 7
• Pay and conditions in engineering 2005: salary growth is slow while market benchmarking has spread – 939 / 7
• BorgWarner – 929 / 25
• British Airways – 940 / 5
• Cavaghan & Gray – 937 / 22
• Ford Motor Company – 927 / 20
• Jaguar Cars – 921 / 19
• LDV – 925 / 20
• McVitie's – 928 / 3
• Quadrant Catering – 935 / 23
• Royal Mail – 929 / 3
• Security Products UK – 924 / 19
• Toshiba Information Systems - Consumer Products Division (UK) – 929 / 7
• Toshiba Information Systems (UK) - Consumer Products Division – 941 / 19

Age-related pay

• National minimum wage: Low Pay Commission seeks views on benefits and accommodation – 934 / 12
• Pay in the retail sector 2005: majority of retailers affected directly by the National Minimum Wage – 940 / 12
• Agricultural Wages Board ( England & Wales) – 939 / 21
• Agricultural Wages Board ( Northern Ireland) – 931 / 24
• Agricultural Wages Board ( Northern Ireland) – 924 / 6
• Argos – 935 / 19
• Asda – 929 / 19
• Boots Manufacturing – 933 / 23
• British Footwear Association – 925 / 23
• British Printing Industries Federation – 928 / 19
• Building and Allied Trades – 933 / 20
• C&J Clark International – 931 / 19
• Cavaghan & Gray – 937 / 22
• Comet – 942 / 18
• Confederation of Paper Industries – 922 / 22
• Dunelm – 937 / 6
• Electrical Contracting JIB – 920 / 24
• Ethel Austin – 932 / 24
• Imperial Tobacco – 940 / 20
• Imperial Tobacco – 937 / 4
• KFC – 930 / 22
• KFC – 929 / 4
• Leyland Trucks – 938 / 21
• Littlewoods Stores – 920 / 22
• Marks & Spencer – 940 / 3
• Matalan – 940 / 22
• McDonald's – 943 / 16
• McDonald's – 921 / 23
• Monsoon Accessorize – 934 / 19
• Next Distribution – 934 / 4
• Retail Co-operative Societies – 939 / 20
• Road Haulage Scottish JIC – 939 / 25
• Sanofi-Aventis – 931 / 21
• Scottish Agricultural Wages Board – 925 / 24
• Scottish Agricultural Wages Board – 924 / 6
• Somerfield – 927 / 4
• South Yorkshire Road Haulage JIC – 928 / 25
• Tesco – 938 / 22
• WH Smith – 943 / 22

Annual hours

• Pay in food, drink and tobacco manufacturing 2004/2005: Trends in pay settlements, salaries, employment and working time – 933 / 13
• Understanding reward: The use of annual hours systems – 928 / 13
• BMW Engine Manufacturing (Hams Hall) – 926 / 21
• Bristol & West – 928 / 13
• British Sugar – 928 / 3
• Britvic Soft Drinks – 932 / 19
• Coors Brewers – 936 / 22
• Coors Brewers – 928 / 13
• International Rectifier – 939 / 5
• Peugeot Citroën Automobiles UK – 932 / 20
• Peugeot Citroën Automobiles UK – 928 / 13
• Rohm and Haas – 933 / 25
• Tesco Distribution – 943 / 23
• Unilever Bestfoods – 939 / 24
• Unilever UK Foods – 928 / 13

Apprentices

• Pay for apprentices: apprentice pay higher for men than for women – 943 / 10
• Babcock Engineering Services – 942 / 4
• BAE SYSTEMS Air Systems – 942 / 24
• BAE SYSTEMS Naval Ships – 925 / 23
• BMW Oxford – 942 / 19
• BMW Oxford – 923 / 18
• British Energy Generation ( UK) – 937 / 19
• British Gas – 933 / 18
• British Printing Industries Federation – 928 / 19
• Building and Allied Trades – 933 / 20
• Building and Allied Trades – 928 / 4
• Coors Brewers – 936 / 22
• Felt Roofing Contracting Industry NJC – 922 / 25
• Ford Motor Company – 943 / 20
• Ford Motor Company – 927 / 20
• Hanson Brick – 926 / 22
• Heating, Ventilating & Domestic Engineering JCC – 921 / 24
• Holset Engineering – 921 / 21
• Imerys – 941 / 23
• Leyland Trucks – 938 / 21
• Motor Vehicle Retail and Repair NJC – 925 / 25
• Network Rail – 928 / 5
• Nissan Motor Manufacturing – 922 / 21
• Powertrain – 920 / 18
• Security Products UK – 924 / 19
• Smiths Aerospace - Electronic Systems Division – 943 / 24
• VT Shipbuilding – 936 / 19

Bargaining developments

• AA pays 5% to patrol staff as part of change process – 933 / 4
• Amicus and CSC agree 'landmark' deal on offshoring – 937 / 5
• Amicus wins recognition at 21st Century Logistics – 943 / 5
• Amicus wins recognition at Nottingham Building Society – 925 / 4
• Collective bargaining: TUC survey shows steady growth of union recognition – 935 / 18
• Convergence replaces devolution as a key pay theme in 2005 – 924 / 2
• The forthcoming agenda for 2006 – 935 / 14
• Further developments on co-ordinated bargaining – 930 / 2
• Head teachers vote on Workforce Agreement – 925 / 7
• Head teachers withdraw from Workforce Agreement – 926 / 5
• Minister launches Union Modernisation Fund – 935 / 8
• New University and College Union – 943 / 4
• Overview of CAC union recognition cases since 1999 – 935 / 7
• Printing industry raises minimum rates by 3 per cent – 927 / 6
• Shifting emphasis of reward to non-pensionable bonuses – 928 / 2
• TGWU recognition at Corby Chilled Foods – 933 / 4
• TGWU seeks 'key worker' status for London busworkers – 941 / 17
• Treasury sets earnings cap of 3.5% for the civil service – 924 / 4
• Union campaign for single status funding – 935 / 7
• Union recognition at Bombardier fleet maintenance – 940 / 6

Bonus schemes

• Pay and conditions in call centres 2005: pay slowdown for advisers, but team leaders do better – 937 / 7
• Pay and conditions in engineering 2005: salary growth is slow while market benchmarking has spread – 939 / 7
• Pay in hotels: minimum wage has a growing impact in hotels – 943 / 10
• Pay in road transport and distribution: changes to pay and conditions to accommodate new regulations – 941 / 7
• Profit-sharing and bonuses: a mixed picture for profit shares and bonus payments in 2005 – 938 / 19
• Shifting emphasis of reward to non-pensionable bonuses – 928 / 2
• Accent Group – 920 / 5
• Agilent Technologies – 927 / 7
• Airbus UK – 929 / 11
• Alfa Laval – 937 / 25
• Argos – 935 / 19
• Argos – 932 / 4
• Asda – 929 / 19
• Asda – 924 / 5
• B&Q – 928 / 3
• B&Q – 927 / 24
• Bank of England – 932 / 3
• Barclays Bank – 926 / 14
• Blackwell's – 938 / 26
• BMW Engine Manufacturing (Hams Hall) – 942 / 4
• BMW Engine Manufacturing (Hams Hall) – 926 / 21
• BMW Engine Manufacturing (Hams Hall) – 925 / 5
• BMW Oxford – 942 / 19
• BMW Oxford – 942 / 19
• BMW Oxford – 941 / 3
• BMW Oxford – 923 / 18
• Boots The Chemists – 935 / 3
• BorgWarner – 929 / 25
• Britannia Building Society – 923 / 21
• Britannia Building Society – 923 / 3
• BT – 934 / 22
• BT – 932 / 3
• CNH ( UK) – 927 / 7
• The Co-operative Bank – 941 / 21
• Coats Barbour – 925 /
• Comet – 936 / 4
• Corus – 922 / 4
• Crane Fluid Systems – 935 / 25
• Cummins Engine Company – 928 / 24
• Department for Work and Pensions – 925 / 4
• Department of Trade and Industry – 934 / 3
• Dollond & Aitchison – 936 / 24
• Ethicon – 929 / 21
• Ethicon – 928 / 4
• Forestry Commission – 928 / 22
• Halfords – 929 / 5
• HBOS – 935 / 3
• HM Treasury – 923 / 3
• Homebase – 933 / 22
• Homebase – 920 / 21
• Honda – 926 / 7
• HSBC Bank – 936 / 4
• Hutchison 3G – 928 / 6
• IBC Vehicles – 942 / 3
• J Sainsbury – 937 / 21
• Jaguar Cars – 921 / 19
• Kemira-Growhow – 940 / 25
• Kimberly-Clark – 925 / 21
• Ladbrokes – 943 / 17
• Ladbrokes – 928 / 23
• Ladbrokes – 927 / 5
• LDV – 925 / 20
• Leigh's Paints – 925 / 19
• Littlewoods Stores – 920 / 22
• Lloyds TSB – 932 / 6
• Monsoon Accessorize – 934 / 19
• National Grid – 941 / 22
• Nationwide Building Society – 936 / 20
• Nationwide Building Society – 934 / 3
• News International – 941 / 4
• Next – 924 / 4
• Next Retail – 928 / 20
• Peugeot Citroën Automobiles UK – 934 / 20
• Peugeot Citroën Automobiles UK – 932 / 20
• Post Office – 928 / 6
• Powertrain – 920 / 18
• Pret A Manger – 934 / 18
• Pret A Manger – 920 / 19
• Rohm and Haas – 933 / 25
• RoMEC – 942 / 6
• Royal Bank of Scotland – 934 / 6
• Royal Mail – 936 / 3
• Royal Mail – 936 / 6
• Royal Mail – 928 / 3
• Sainsbury – 935 / 8
• Scottish Power Generation – 939 / 3
• Select Service Partner - UK Rail – 933 / 21
• Selfridges – 936 / 23
• Smallbone of Devizes – 931 / 5
• Sony UK Tech – 920 / 20
• Toshiba Information Systems - Consumer Products Division ( UK) – 929 / 7
• Toshiba Information Systems ( UK) - Consumer Products Division – 941 / 19
• Toyota Motor Manufacturing ( UK) – 931 / 25
• Urenco – 927 / 3
• Vauxhall Motors – 937 / 4
• Vertex – 933 / 8
• Waterstone's – 932 / 22
• Western Power Distribution – 924 / 24

Call-out & standby

• ECJ rules on on-call hours – 943 / 7
• Agricultural Wages Board ( England & Wales) – 939 / 21
• Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings – 924 / 22
• Britannia Building Society – 923 / 21
• British Energy Generation ( UK) – 937 / 19
• British Gas – 933 / 18
• British Nuclear Fuels – 927 / 18
• BT – 934 / 22
• First Hydro – 943 / 17
• Hospitaller Order of St John of God Trust – 942 / 5
• Imerys – 941 / 23
• Jewish Care – 923 / 23
• Leyland Trucks – 938 / 21
• Nationwide Building Society – 936 / 20
• Police support staff ( England & Wales) – 939 / 3
• Sanofi-Aventis – 931 / 21
• Scottish & Southern Energy – 934 / 24
• Tesco – 938 / 22
• UKAEA – 935 / 24
• Western Power Distribution – 924 / 24

Childcare

• DTI consultation document proposes new family friendly working rights – 925 / 6
• Employment and reward issues for Labour's third term – 929 / 2
• Parents request flexible working – 927 / 5
• Understanding reward: salary sacrifice – 942 / 13
• The Body Shop – 921 / 22
• Civil service – 922 / 12
• Ford Motor Company – 927 / 20
• Highways Agency – 920 / 6
• Peugeot Citroën Automobiles UK – 934 / 20
• Royal Mail – 934 / 4

Competencies

• The Avenues Trust – 937 / 6
• British Sugar – 930 / 23
• Deloro Stellite – 933 / 5
• House of Fraser – 930 / 24
• Police Negotiating Board – 939 / 22
• Suffolk County Council – 929 / 14

Contracting out

• Contracting-out: Unison lodges claims with private firms to extend NHS pay deal – 927 / 12
• Deal reached to end 'two-tier workforce' – 927 / 3