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Royal Shakespeare Company: 3.25% increase to minimum rates
An agreement between Equity and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has resulted in a 3.25% basic pay rise for performers, stage managers and assistant directors, effective for 12 months from 7 April 2008.

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Alliance & Leicester: two-stage award agreed
Alliance & Leicester has awarded a two-stage increase covering 6,500 staff and managers whose jobs are ranked at up to 450 points under the Hay job evaluation system.

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Building brick industry: pay rises capped at 4%
The second stage of a long-term pay and conditions agreement negotiated between the GMB, Unite and the British Ceramic Confederation sees national basic and individual domestic rates rise by 4% with effect from 1 June 2008.

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Pay review update: 26 September 2008
The table summarises the latest pay awards monitored by the IRS pay databank. Each pay-award 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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Rising company medical plan costs are 'unsustainable'
The costs of private medical expense benefit plans are currently subject to annual inflation of 9.5%, according to a survey from Mercer.

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Sales reps' salaries rise by 3.3%
The average salary for a sales representative has risen by 3.3% over the past year, according to the latest report from Croner Reward in association with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). The median basic salary for a rank 5 employee, which includes sales representatives, is £23,239, up from £22,505 a year ago.

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Pay review update: 12 September 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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Museum salaries are 'much too low'
Museum salaries are "truly terrible", according to Mark Taylor, director of the Museums Association, in his introduction to the organisation's best-practice salary guidelines.

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Department for Work and Pensions: 3.6% paybill increase plus non-consolidated payments
The 113,248 staff below senior civil service level at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have received a pay award worth 3.6% of paybill, plus non-consolidated payments, in the second year of a three-year deal.

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Poland: Unions seek higher pay and continued early retirement
On 29 August 2008, the Independent Self-governing Trade Union Solidarity (NSZZ Solidarnosc) organised a major protest rally in Warsaw as part of a campaign for "decent work, decent retirement".

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Germany: Government action likely to limit top pay
Proposals to tighten corporate governance with the aim of creating greater accountability over top pay in quoted companies are expected to be announced by the conservative-social democrat coalition in autumn 2008.

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Germany: Union fragmentation complicates Lufthansa pay negotiations
The 2008 pay negotiations at Germany’s Lufthansa airline have been strongly influenced by the high degree of trade union fragmentation in the aviation sector, with employees represented by multiple unions, some of which compete for employees' allegiance.

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France: Government announces action to promote employment of older workers
In July 2008, the French government presented a series of measures aimed at: encouraging organisations to employ more older workers; and enciting older people to remain in work longer or re-enter the labour market.

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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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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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Average earnings
Headline average earnings growth: 3.5% (July 2008) Next release date: 15 October 2008

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Pay awards
IRS headline measure of pay settlements: 3.5% (August 2008) Next release date: 24 October 2008

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Inflation
Retail Prices Index (RPI): 4.8% (August 2008). Next release date: 14 October 2008