Index 2005 – issues 920 to 943

Subject index I – L

Inflation forecasts Information and consultation Job evaluation Labour markets Labour turnover Location allowances Long service awards Long-term agreements Low pay

Inflation forecasts

• Fuel prices put pressure on inflation – 936 / 2
• Inflation forecast to fall to 2% as interest rates are lowered – 932 / 2
• Inflation forecasts: moving back towards 2¼% by the year end – 927 / 2
• New forecasts anticipate slower growth but no inflation surprises – 940 / 2
• Pay and bargaining prospects 2005/2006 – 938 / 2

Information and consultation

• British Printing Industries Federation – 943 / 8

Job evaluation

• Understanding reward: job evaluation: Prominent role for job evaluation in new pay structures – 936 / 17
• Cornwall County Council – 925 / 13
• Dairy Crest – 931 / 5
• Homerton University Hospital – 937 / 15
• Retail Co-operative Societies – 937 / 3
• Rolls Royce Motor Cars – 920 / 3
• Scottish & Southern Energy – 934 / 24
• University of Southampton – 927 / 13
• Vertex – 933 / 8

Labour markets

• Call centre employment in the UK forecast to expand – 937 / 2
• CIPD survey finds more people working in reward – 923 / 2
• Collective bargaining is alive and well in the private sector – 939 / 2
• The costs of pay modernisation in the public sector – 935 / 2
• A dynamic labour market in 2005 – 922 / 2
• The future of work: creating workplaces where people want to work – 934 / 2
• Labour disputes in 2004 – 931 / 5
• Labour market developments: Workers from Eastern Europe fill UK labour market gaps – 932 / 17
• Public sector pay in 2005… … and the agenda for 2006 – 935 / 9
• The significance of migrants in London labour market – 942 / 5
• What's happening in the labour market? – 938 / 7

Labour turnover

• Absence survey: CBI data indicates steady decline of absence levels – 930 / 15
• CIPD survey of staff turnover: Employers pinpoint skills gap as key to labour market pressures – 932 / 18

Location allowances

• The minimum wage in retail: October 2004 adjustments to pay rates on the high street – 920 / 12
• Pay and conditions in call centres 2005: pay slowdown for advisers, but team leaders do better – 937 / 7
• Pay in road transport and distribution: changes to pay and conditions to accommodate new regulations – 941 / 7
• Airbus UK – 934 / 6
• Alliance & Leicester – 942 / 22
• Amnesty International – 940 / 3
• Argos – 935 / 19
• BBC – 938 / 25
• Blackwell's – 938 / 26
• The Blue Cross – 927 / 25
• The Body Shop – 921 / 22
• Boots The Chemists – 935 / 3
• British Energy Generation ( UK) – 937 / 19
• British Gas – 933 / 18
• British Nuclear Fuels – 927 / 18
• BT – 934 / 22
• C&J Clark International – 931 / 19
• Capita TVL - call centre – 935 / 6
• Choice Support – 932 / 7
• Civil Aviation Authority – 931 / 17
• Civil service – 922 / 12
• Comet – 942 / 18
• Committee of Registered Clubs' Associations NJIC – 924 / 23
• Coral – 923 / 25
• Department for Constitutional Affairs – 922 / 3
• Department of Trade and Industry – 934 / 3
• Electrical Contracting JIB – 920 / 24
• Fire Brigades – 937 / 23
• GNER – 939 / 5
• Heritage Care – 924 / 20
• Homebase – 933 / 22
• Homebase – 920 / 21
• House of Fraser – 930 / 24
• J Sainsbury – 937 / 21
• Jewish Care – 923 / 23
• Ladbrokes – 943 / 17
• Ladbrokes – 928 / 23
• Littlewoods Stores – 920 / 22
• Lloyds TSB – 932 / 6
• Marks & Spencer – 940 / 3
• Matalan – 940 / 22
• National Grid – 941 / 22
• Next Retail – 928 / 20
• Police Negotiating Board – 939 / 22
• Police Negotiating Board – 937 / 4
• Pret A Manger – 934 / 18
• Pret A Manger – 920 / 19
• Quadrant Catering – 935 / 23
• Quadrant Catering – 931 / 3
• Romec – 930 / 4
• Royal Bank of Scotland – 934 / 6
• RWE Thames Water – 926 / 24
• Selfridges – 935 / 3
• Somerfield – 927 / 4
• Soulbury Committee – 937 / 5
• Stroke Association – 933 / 7
• Tate Gallery – 939 / 3
• Tesco – 938 / 22
• Tesco Distribution – 943 / 23
• TK Maxx – 935 / 6
• Vertex – 933 / 8
• Virgin Retail – 936 / 24
• Waitrose – 931 / 23
• Waterstone's – 932 / 22
• WH Smith – 943 / 22
• Wickes – 922 / 23

Long service awards

• Monsoon Accessorize – 934 / 19

Long-term agreements

• Pay in food, drink and tobacco manufacturing 2004/2005: Trends in pay settlements, salaries, employment and working time – 933 / 13
• Pay in passenger transport: More train drivers pass £40,000 landmark salary – 941 / 15
• Public sector pay in 2005… … and the agenda for 2006 – 935 / 9
• AAH Pharmaceuticals – 928 / 5
• Allen Gears – 926 / 4
• Associated British Ports – 933 / 7
• Aston Martin – 926 / 4
• BAA – 926 / 6
• BAA – 925 / 4
• BAE (Air Systems) – 940 / 4
• BAE Naval Ships – 924 / 6
• BAE SYSTEMS Air Systems – 942 / 24
• BAE SYSTEMS Air Systems – 941 / 6
• BAE SYSTEMS Naval Ships – 925 / 23
• Barclays Bank – 926 / 14
• Bentley Motors Limited – 922 / 24
• 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 – 941 / 3
• BMW Oxford – 923 / 18
• BMW ( Swindon) – 941 / 3
• BOC – 924 / 4
• Bombardier Aerospace – 928 / 21
• Bombardier Aerospace – 926 / 6
• BorgWarner – 929 / 25
• British Airways – 940 / 19
• British Airways – 926 / 4
• British Nuclear Fuels – 927 / 18
• British Nuclear Fuels – 927 / 3
• Buckinghamshire County Council – 929 / 24
• Burton 's Foods – 925 / 8
• Cadbury Schweppes (chocolate factories) – 935 / 20
• Caterpillar UK – 931 / 22
• Caterpillar UK – 930 / 3
• Centrax – 925 / 5
• Cereal Partners – 922 / 5
• Civil service – 922 / 12
• CNH ( UK) – 928 / 18
• CNH ( UK) – 927 / 7
• Confederation of Paper Industries – 922 / 22
• Corus – 922 / 4
• Cummins Engine Company – 928 / 24
• Cummins Engine Company – 925 / 8
• Demolition Industry Conciliation Board – 936 / 5
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – 941 / 5
• Department for Work and Pensions – 925 / 4
• Electrical Contracting JIB – 920 / 24
• Engineering Construction NJC – 926 / 5
• EWS – 935 / 7
• Felt Roofing Contracting Industry NJC – 922 / 25
• Firefighters – 933 / 6
• First Bus – 939 / 6
• First Hydro – 943 / 17
• Ford Motor Company – 943 / 20
• Ford Motor Company – 942 / 3
• Ford Motor Company – 927 / 20
• Ford Motor Company – 926 / 5
• GNER – 939 / 5
• Goodrich Actuation Systems – 931 / 20
• Goodrich Actuation Systems – 927 / 5
• Greggs – 932 / 7
• Hamble Structures – 929 / 3
• Hanson Brick – 926 / 22
• Hanson Brick – 922 / 3
• Heating, Ventilating & Domestic Engineering JCC – 921 / 24
• Heinz – 941 / 5
• HM Revenue & Customs – 940 / 5
• Holset Engineering – 921 / 21
• Honeywell Building Solutions – 939 / 18
• IBC Vehicles – 942 / 3
• ICI Paints – 943 / 5
• ITN – 936 / 25
• Jaguar Cars – 941 / 6
• Jaguar Cars – 921 / 19
• Jaguar Cars – 920 / 4
• JNC for youth and community workers – 920 / 5
• Kimberly-Clark – 925 / 21
• Komatsu UK – 930 / 3
• Komatsu UK – 930 / 20
• LDV – 925 / 20
• Leyland Trucks – 938 / 21
• Leyland Trucks – 937 / 6
• Local authorities ( England & Wales) – 929 / 17
• London Underground – 940 / 23
• London Underground – 928 / 4
• McVitie's – 928 / 3
• NCR Financial Services – 940 / 24
• Nestlé Rowntree – 931 / 19
• Nestlé Rowntree – 929 / 3
• Network Rail – 926 / 8
• News International – 941 / 4
• NHS – 939 / 5
• Nissan Motor Manufacturing – 943 / 4
• Nissan Motor Manufacturing – 922 / 21
• Northumbrian Water – 933 / 6
• Octel – 932 / 23
• Octel – 930 / 6
• Perkins Engines – 934 / 25
• Perkins Engines – 930 / 4
• Peugeot Citroën Automobiles UK – 934 / 20
• Peugeot Citroën Automobiles UK – 932 / 20
• Phoenix Healthcare Distribution – 935 / 5
• Plumbing industry (Scotland & Northern Ireland) – 927 / 6
• Powertrain – 920 / 18
• Precast Concrete industry – 929 / 4
• Quadrant Catering – 935 / 23
• Quadrant Catering – 931 / 3
• Road Haulage West Midlands JIC – 927 / 23
• Road Haulage West Midlands JIC – 927 / 5
• Romec – 930 / 4
• Royal Opera House – 935 / 4
• RWE npowerOne – 930 / 21
• RWE npowerOne – 929 / 3
• RWE Thames Water – 926 / 24
• School teachers ( England & Wales) – 943 / 7
• School teachers ( Scotland) – 935 / 20
• School teachers ( Scotland) – 931 / 3
• Scottish and Northern Ireland JIB for the Plumbing Industry – 943 / 6
• Scottish Joint Council for Local Government Employees – 920 / 5
• Scottish Power Generation – 939 / 3
• Scottish & Southern Energy – 934 / 24
• Scottish & Southern Energy – 926 / 7
• Security Products UK – 924 / 19
• Severn Trent Water – 941 / 25
• Smiths Aerospace – 941 / 6
• Sony UK Tech – 920 / 20
• Tesco Distribution – 936 / 5
• Tetley GB – 939 / 3
• Thermal Insulation Contracting NJC – 924 / 6
• Toshiba Information Systems - Consumer Products Division ( UK) – 929 / 7
• Toshiba Information Systems ( UK) - Consumer Products Division – 941 / 19
• UK Coal – 922 / 4
• Unilever – 936 / 4
• Unilever Bestfoods – 939 / 24
• Unilever Bestfoods UK – 931 / 5
• Unilever UK Foods – 931 / 5
• Universities – 941 / 4
• Urenco – 927 / 3
• Vauxhall Motors – 937 / 4
• Vauxhall Motors – 926 / 8
• Visteon – 943 / 6
• VT Shipbuilding – 936 / 19
• VT Shipbuilding – 935 / 5
• Western Power Distribution – 924 / 24
• Wilkinson – 924 / 25
• Wyeth Pharmaceuticals – 925 / 5

Low pay

• Mayor of London establishes new 'Living Wage Unit' – 927 / 6
• Union campaign for single status funding – 935 / 7