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Home truths about cutting pay for remote workers
As the furore over cutting pay for home-based workers rumbles on, it seems evident that remote working is still viewed in a negative light despite its overall success during lockdown. Google employees in the US are reportedly facing salary cuts of up to 25 per cent if they continue working from home after the pandemic, […]
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Time for workers to squeeze the most from shortages
Skills, skills, skills – with the economy rebounding out of lockdown and the exodus of EU workers post-Brexit, employers just can’t get the know-how they need right now. From traditionally lower-wage positions in hospitality and retail through to HGV drivers, construction workers and IT specialists, employers across the spectrum are reporting staff shortages that have left them […]
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Sick pay U-turn creates dilemmas for frontline staff
Even in a world where contact tracing systems work accurately and efficiently – a sphere we definitely don’t occupy at the moment – such schemes are only effective to the extent that people comply with the notice to self-isolate, and it is here where the Government’s recent U-turn on reforms to statutory sick pay (SSP) have created […]
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How to ask for a pay rise
Talking about money is something many of us feel uncomfortable about which can make working out how to ask for a pay rise tricky. Yet whilst you might be willing to let off a mate who borrowed a tenner because you feel awkward asking for it back, you shouldn’t be willing to settle for being […]