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Williams & Adam-Smith: Contemporary Employment Relations

Chapter 7

Contemporary developments in pay and working time

There are a number of websites that provide further information about, and commentary on, contemporary developments in pay and working time.

Incomes Data Services (IDS) produces regular reports about such topics as the incidence of low pay and the effects of the National Minimum Wage, pay systems and structures, changes in bargaining arrangements, and details of bargaining outcomes. Its website offers summaries of their publications: www.incomesdata.co.uk/

For further details about the implementation and effects of the National Minimum Wage in Britain, then go to the website of the Low Pay Commission. Copies of its most recent report can also be downloaded from its website:
www.lowpay.gov.uk/

 For a comprehensive source of information about Europe-wide developments in pay, working time, and collective bargaining, go to the website of the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO). You can browse by country, industry sector, date, and topic:
www.eiro.eurofound.ie/

 For further details of the legislation concerning the regulation of working time in Britain, go to the relevant part of the Department of Trade and Industry’s website:
www.dti.gov.uk/er/index.htm

 Further information about ASLEF’s campaign to restore national bargaining in the railway industry can be found at the union’s website. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) also organizes and represents workers on the railways:
www.aslef.org.uk/
www.rmt.org.uk/

 For the perspectives of the teachers’ trade unions on PRP in schools, and other matters pertaining to schoolteachers’ pay and conditions, browse their respective websites: National Union of Teachers (NUT) www.teachers.org.uk/
National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) www.teachersunion.org.uk/
Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) www.atl.org.uk/

 For more information about pay determination and collective bargaining in local government, visit the Local Government Pay Commission’s website:
www.lgpay.org.uk/