Policy News Journal - 2012-13

CAMPAIGN TO MAINTAIN THE AGRICULTURAL WAGES BOARD (ENGLAND & WALES)

28 September 2011

Rural workers are extremely concerned that should the government’s plans to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board go ahead, they will face diminishing pay and conditions.

To raise the awareness of the plight of over 150,000 agricultural workers, hundreds of apples were handed out to delegates at the Labour Party conference as part of the ’Back the Apple‘ campaign - which has one objective - to maintain the Agricultural Wages Board. Unite believes that this goes to show that the Tory-led government is completely out of touch with the countryside. In a joint-campaign with the Labour party, Unite has been working to stop the plans to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) for England and Wales, which was set up in 1923 specifically to protect the pay and conditions of these vulnerable rural workers. Read the full story from Unite

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STUDENT LOAN 2013 THRESHOLD

30 July 2012

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has confirmed that from 6 April 2013 the student loan threshold will rise by 3.6% to £16,365

HMRC Software Developers Support Team announced the following:

Notification of a threshold change for student loan borrowers in the current Income Contingent Repayment (ICR) scheme

Amending regulations (SI 2011/784) are in force which state that the annual repayment threshold will rise annually from 6 April 2012 by the Retail Prices Index (RPI).

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