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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.