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Pay Gap Case Study #2 – Year on year trends, the good, bad and Unilever

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Welcome to my next case study where I look at the pay gap figures of Unilever Ltd.  Unilever turn out to be a very interesting case study for analysing year on year changes in their published statistics.  In this case I will be looking at the changes between 2017 and 2018 for the two Unilever business units that have submitted GPG data which are:-

  1. Unilever UK Ltd
  2. Unilever UK Central Resources Ltd

Clicking on those links will take you to the government’s gender pay gap website where you can see their published figures.  For this post, I will be using my own spreadsheet which you can download for yourselves here.

 

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Pay Gaps #6 – Frequently Asked Questions

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April 2019 is bang in the middle of gender pay gap season as everyone digests the 2018 snapshot data uploaded by over 10,500 organisations in the UK employing more than 250 employees.  Due to my work on pay gaps, I am being asked a number of questions and what is gender pay gap data and how it can be interpreted.  As more questions come in, I will update this post so please bookmark this for future reference and follow me on Twitter for alerts as to when this has happened.

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Pay Gap Data #2 – Where can I find gender pay gap data for 2018?

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This post is out of date.  Please click here for a later version.

The government requires all organisations employing 250 or more employees to submit gender pay gap data.  The latest set of submissions are supposed to be uploaded by 31st March 2019 but these figures refer to pay made in April 2018 i.e. a year ago.  From the end of April 2019, organisations can submit their 2019 data and not wait for the deadline of March 2020.  All data is available to the public and can be found on the government’s gender pay gap website.  I have downloaded this data and created a spreadsheet tool to present the data in a more user-friendly and visual format.

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EU Referendum #6 – Find your way out of the Brexit maze in 9 Days!

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Theresa May has just asked the EU Council for a 3 month extension to Article 50, the Speaker won’t allow another meaningful vote without meaningful changes, Jeremy Corbyn is pondering backing another referendum and in 9 days time, the UK could be leaving the EU without a deal.  Just another week in the Parliamentary Brexit Maze but I have updated my Brexit Voting Factions after last week’s votes and identified an 8th faction for you to play with in your voting permutations.
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EU Referendum #5 – Find your way out of the Brexit maze in 16 Days!

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*** This post is not yet complete.  However you will find a link to the data near the bottom and a link to a twitter thread for some of the images ***

Within the next 10 days, the House of Commons will get a second Meaningful Vote on the Withdrawal Agreement which could be followed by 2 more significant votes on No-Deal and Article 50 Extension.  I have been tracking how MPs have voted on the first Meaningful Vote and subsequent Amendments which I summarised in two posts “Find your way out of the Brexit Maze in 57 days and 43 days.”  Following further amendments at the end of February and with no more amendments planned before the next meaningful vote, I have redone my cluster analysis to predict what the outcome of these votes might be.  As far as possible, I am trying to base my predictions on what MPs have done rather than what they say but I will compare my analysis with that of Election Maps who have been tracking MP’s statements.
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UK Opinion Poll Tracker #14 – February 2019

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After 12 months of essentially static polls despite the news being dominated by Brexit, Labour has experienced a significant worsening of their position and the Conservatives have opened up a lead over Labour that would give them a majority in parliament.  Words of caution are being uttered about the extent of the Tory lead since one pollster is notably out of step with all other pollsters.

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