The minimum weekly pay for apprentices is to rise from 80 to 90 from August 2009.

A third of small and medium-sized business owners and managers are not fully aware that the National Minimum Wage is due to rise in October.

The pay gap between men and women in the marketing industry has increased, with women earning 18% less than men in this sector compared with 10% last year.

UK social care workers in the voluntary sector are paid almost one third of a train driver's salary, less than half of the average nurse's salary and 100 less per week than a road sweeper, according...

Pay rises for skilled, mid-level support and technical staff are highest in the IT sector because of skills shortages.

Young people want a single National Minimum Wage to be a top priority for the Government over the next year.

Harrods staff have become the latest group of workers to consider strike action.

Non-executive directors received lower pay rises (15.6%) last year than in previous years. The increase for chairmen was 25%.

More than half of all professionals in the finance sector do not use their annual leave allowance.

One thousand London Underground maintenance workers are to stage two 72-hour strikes over pay and working conditions while an additional 700 cleaners on the tube are to strike for higher wages.

Up to 100,000 local government staff in Scotland are to strike in protest of below-inflation pay rises.

Migrant workers are most likely to face discrimination at work and female migrant workers are more likely to be paid below the minimum wage, according to TUC.