Research Briefing
Economic Indicators, February 2006
Economic indicators. [Includes article on the 80% employment aspiration]. House of Commons Library Research Paper 06/05.
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Research Briefing
The Lyons and Gershon Reviews and variations in Civil Service conditions
Organisational changes to the Civil Service over the past thirty years have meant that the majority of civil servants now work in Departments and Executive Agencies in which the responsibility for pay and conditions are decided locally. Uniform pay structures and conditions of service have been significantly eroded. The Government have launched major reviews into the operation of the civil service and these include the Lyons and Gershon Reviews.
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Research Briefing
Economic Indicators, December 2005
Economic indicators. [Includes article on trade justice, the WTO Doha Round and Hong Kong]. House of Commons Library Research Paper 05/84.
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Research Briefing
Incapacity benefit reforms: ‘Pathways to Work’
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on Incapacity Benefit reforms: ‘Pathways to Work’, from 2005.
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Research Briefing
The Work and Families Bill.
The Bill delivers primary legislation for regulations to be made extending statutory leave and pay for parents. The intention is to increase the period of Statutory Maternity Pay, Maternity Allowance and Statutory Adoption Pay to 39 weeks by April 2007 as a step toward 52 weeks by the end of the Parliament. Additional unpaid paternity leave will be introduced after further consultation. The intention is to allow mothers to transfer some of their unused statutory pay entitlement to fathers. Powers are also given allowing the scope of the right to request flexible working to be extended.
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Research Briefing
Equality Bill (HL) (Bill 85 2005-06)
Equality Bill (HL) (Bill 85 of 2005-06). House of Commons Library Research Paper 05/77
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Research Briefing
Passported benefits
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on passported benefits, from 2005.
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Research Briefing
‘Make Poverty History’: guide to sources & material
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on 'Make Poverty History': guide to sources and material, from 2005.
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Research Briefing
Tax credits and free school meals
This is an archived Commons Library briefing on tax credits and free school meals, from 2005.
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