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Pay review update: 29 August 2008
The table summarises the latest pay awards monitored by the IRS paydatabank. For each pay award the entry shows the name and size of the review group, the effective date and length of the review, together with brief details of the main changes.

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Scottish and Northern Irish plumbing industry: 4.6% rise in minimum hourly rates
An estimated 6,000 plumbers covered by the Scottish and Northern Ireland Joint Industry Board for the Plumbing Industry have received a 4.6% pay rise in the first year of a two-year deal, effective from 2 June 2008.

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Metropolitan Police: 2.5% pay increase
Following agreement in May 2008, Metropolitan Police administrative and support staff, and 4,200 police community support officers (PCSOs), have received a basic pay award of 2.5%, backdated to 1 August 2007.

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Western Power Distribution: new deal generates 5.1% increase
Western Power Distribution has increased basic pay rates by 5.1%, with effect from 1 April 2008. The electricity distribution company covers south-west England and south and west Wales.

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Migrants have no impact on UK wages or unemployment, says DWP
The debate on the impact of migration on the UK labour market rumbles on with the publication of a study from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

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Lloyds TSB: 3.8% paybill budget increase
Merit rises from a 3.8% paybill increase have been awarded to 65,000 clerical and managerial staff at Lloyds TSB, effective from 1 April 2008.

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Executive pay: all sides 'unhappy' with the status quo
According to new research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): "None of the stakeholders in executive compensation seems to be very happy with the current state of affairs."

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Pay review update: 15 August 2008
The table summarises the latest pay awards monitored by the IRS paydatabank. For each pay award the entry shows the name and size of the review group, the effective date and length of the review, together with brief details of the main changes.

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Italy: Pay deal reached in rubber and plastics
On 4 July 2008, trade unions and employers’ organisations signed a new collective agreement for the rubber and plastics industry, covering more than 130,000 workers and 2,500 companies, including major firms such as Bridgestone, Michelin, Pirelli and Prismyan Cavi.

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Germany: Bargaining in 2008 brings higher wage increases
Increases in collectively agreed pay in the first half of 2008 were generally up on the previous year, according to an analysis of this year’s pay round conducted by the trade union-linked Economic and Social Research Institute (WSI).

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Germany: Government finalises legislation to regulate low pay
In July 2008, the German cabinet adopted draft legislation to regulate low pay, concluding a year of debate within the conservative-social democrat coalition government.

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France: Minimum wage increased by 0.9%
The French government increased the statutory national minimum wage, the smic, by 0.9% from 1 July 2008.

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Ireland: National pay talks collapse
In August 2008, negotiations over a new national pay deal ended in failure, with trade unions rejecting an employers’ offer of a 5% rise over 21 months.

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Pay review update: 25 July 2008
The table summarises the latest pay awards monitored by the IRS pay databank. For each pay award the entry shows the name and size of the review group, the effective date and length of the review, together with brief details of the main changes.

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BBSRC: three-year harmonised pay deal agreed
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has agreed a three-year pay deal that harmonises its pay system with that covering four other research councils and the research councils' new shared services centre.








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Average earnings
Headline average earnings growth: 3.4% (June 2008) Next release date: 17 September 2008

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Pay awards
IRS headline measure of pay settlements: 3.5% (July 2008) Next release date: 26 September 2008

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Inflation
Retail Prices Index (RPI): 5.0% (July 2008). Next release date: 16 September 2008