The average pension pot for a FTSE 100 director increased by £400,000 last year to £4.73m – with one director alone amassing a huge pension pot worth £22.2m – according to the TUC's annual PensionsWatch survey published today (Thursday).
Responding to today's (Thursday) report by the National Audit Office, which says that the government's new Universal Credit Programme is wasting taxpayers' money and is being poorly implemented, TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said:
The TUC has today (Thursday) welcomed calls by the former chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, Sir John Armitt, for the government to establish an independent National Infrastructure Commission.
In the last five years UK workers have suffered a huge squeeze on their incomes, with average pay falling by 6.3 per cent in real terms – a real terms loss of £30.30 in the pay packets of employees working a 40-hour week, according to research published today (Wednesday) by the TUC as part of its Britain Needs a Pay Rise campaign.
Wages in the South West have fallen by 5% since 2007, with men losing £32.28 a week, and women losing £19.96, according to TUC research....
The UK's economic recovery is far behind schedule and is doing little to boost people's living standards, according to new analysis published by the TUC today (Tuesday).
The TUC has today (Monday) lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission against the UK government for failing to implement the Temporary Agency Workers Directive properly, leading to tens of thousands of agency workers being paid less than permanent staff despite doing the same job.
The government's shares for rights scheme, which takes effect from today (Sunday), will strip staff of basic employment rights and could cost taxpayers £1bn, the TUC warns.
The Colombian union leader Huber Ballesteros must be released immediately and the charges against him dropped, the TUC has demanded in a letter to the Colombian government.
A woman in her late 40s from East Dorset can expect to receive £67,000 more in state pension when she retires, compared to a women of the same age living in Corby, due to a widening gap in life expectancies and a rising state pension age, according to a new report published today (Friday) by the TUC.