Human resources
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11. In the past year, has the number of people you employ:
27
Increased
35
Decreased
38
Remained the same
1
Don't know
12. With regard to employee salaries, over the next 12 months, on average, will you:
11
Increase salaries by more than inflation
40
Increase salaries in line with inflation
33
Offer no pay rise
3
Reduce pay
13
Difficult to predict, depends on conditions
13. What measures have you introduced or expanded over the past 12 months specifically in an effort to avoid/reduce compulsory redundancies?
4
Unpaid/reduced pay periods
4
Sabbaticals or career breaks
12
Reduction in employee hours
8
Pay cuts
3
Reduction in benefits or pension contributions
2
Short term plant/office closure
6
Voluntary redundancies
1
Offering equity in business in lieu of salary
11
Redeployment of staff
3
Secondments
9
Laying off casual/contract staff
14
Other
50
We have not needed to do this
3
Don't know
