Staff at Le Pain Quotidien had new terms and conditions imposed just over a month ago, offsetting a rise in their basic pay from about £6.80 an hour, just over the minimum wage, to the new minimum of £7.20 an hour for over-25s.
Except as provided by subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section, an individual is not entitled to receive basic pay from more than one position for more than an aggregate of 40 hours of work in one calendar week (Sunday through Saturday).
Arriva Trains Wales said drivers had been offered a pay increase of 12% taking their basic pay from £34,824 to £39,117 in two stages.
However, a 7.4% rise in basic pay cushioned bosses from the impact of the downturn.
The total amount payable for a member under subsection (e)(2) for a commitment by that member shall be withheld, credited, and otherwise treated in the same manner as amounts deducted and withheld from the basic pay of the member.
Yet according to the most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, basic pay in the public sector rose by 2% in the past year; the private sector figure is 1.8%.
But GM has not had to concede any increase in basic pay (apart from a modest rise for the low-paid tier twos).
At Ocado's annual meeting shareholders protested at Steiner's basic pay rising from £350,000 to £450,000.
The 1.5% increase, revealed by the Guardian yesterday, is arrived at by identifying the median of the pay increases received by 15 groups of public sector workers for 2009, and will see MPs' basic pay rise from £64,766 to £65,737.
Rather than increasing basic pay, the government has allowed profit-sharing to increase to fulfil aspirations.
