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Monthly Archives: March 2022
Freelancers Make Theatre Work
Freelancers Make Theatre Work is an organisation that came into being in 2020. They did their first freelance survey in June of that year called The Big Freelancer Survey. At the time, 9000 freelancers signed up to their platform, and … Continue reading
How to calculate inflation between two dates.
Imagine you wanted to work out what an inflation-rate increase between two dates is? Here’s an outline that I’ve drafted with extensive help from Nick Kardahji in the Prospect research team. Say you are preparing a pay claim for some … Continue reading
Posted in Low pay, Pay & inflation, Wages and Pay-rates
Tagged CPI, CPIH, Inflation, Inflation Calculators, RPI
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Fatigue in the TV and film industy
There’s a useful summary of this issue on the IOSH magazine website here. It’s got a lot of the kind of thing you’d expect (including a quote from our own Spencer MacDonald). And this: “Research says that when an employee … Continue reading
How inflation is affecting individual households
Further to the previous post on the cost of living, Bectu reps may wish to circulate this Office for National Statistics (ONS) page on how to calculate your personal cost-of-living changes.
Getting the current cost-of-living crisis in perspective
How can we understand the current cost of living crisis in perspective when talking to Bectu members about their wages? One way would be to look at it over a few years. In the past few days, coincidentally, I’ve had … Continue reading
Sunak’s spring statement 2022 – initial details
Firstly, with inflation up again at 6.2% from 5.5%, the growth forecasts are fairly conservative at the moment and “we don’t really know how the situation in Ukraine will affect all of this” runs like a subtext to all of … Continue reading
EntitledTo – understanding benefits entitlements
The EntitledTo website is worth bookmarking. It aims to offer reliable estimates of benefit entitlements for individuals based on the detailed knowledge that they claim to have of the UK’s social security system. The site has some useful benefits calculators … Continue reading
Posted in Pensions, Wages and Pay-rates, Welfare and benefits
Tagged Benefits, Entitledto
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Skills shortages in film & TV – update
There’s a useful roundup in the i-Paper showing the scale of the studio expansion and growing physical production capacity that the UK has, in contrast to the roster of available skills which will leave an estimated “40,000 workers needed to … Continue reading
Inflation – latest
Not a detailed post but a useful snapshot. The latest KPMG forecast for UK inflation has it peaking at more than 10% later this year (due to energy price spikes)… pic.twitter.com/7RvQ49MVi3 — Ben Chu (@BenChu_) March 9, 2022
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Tagged Inflation, Inflation forecasts, Ukraine
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Your day-one right to a written statement of particulars (and a wider written statement within two months)
You may already be aware that, since 2020, employees and workers now have a right to a written statement of employment particulars before they start work. Details of what should be on that ‘principal statement’ can be seen on that … Continue reading
Using online forums – avoiding troll-bait
There’s a useful introduction to the concept of ‘troll-bait’ on the Snopes website here – what it is, and how to avoid it. (find out more about Trollface here)