The viral email sent by disgruntled employee Kieran Allen to staff at media agency MEC on Tuesday is a reminder employers need to have clearly communicated procedures in place to regulate employee...
Conflict in the workplace is a common occurrence and can take many forms, whether it is personality clashes, differences in leadership or working style.
Further to the announcement last Friday that the Government plans to slash the £72,000 cap on unfair dismissals, opinion is mixed among employees and businesses.
Business secretary Vince Cable is to announce later today the Government’s response to the Beecroft report on employment law reform, published by venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft in May. Although...
Employment law is complex at the best of times, but when tax, benefits, fuel efficiency and parental leave come into play, HR departments can find themselves facing fresh hurdles in their bid to give...
Employees at human rights charity Amnesty International UK are planning to take strike action tomorrow to protest against the refusal of senior management to enter into "meaningful negotiations" over...
Business secretary Vince Cable MP announced yesterday a blitz on “over 3,000 regulations to be scrapped or overhauled”, a further instalment in the Government’s drive to reduce red tape. Shops,...
Norman Lamb (pictured), minister for employment relations, has named an employer under the BIS Scheme for naming employers who flout National Minimum Wage (NMW) law.
Tomorrow four Christians will be seeking to change UK discrimination law through the European Court of Human Rights.
The minister for disabled people Maria Miller (pictured) has launched a business guide aimed at making more firms aware of the £80 billion potential spending power of disabled people and encourages...
The Government’s reform plan announced in June sets out the ambition to reform the civil service into a sharper, quicker, more agile ‘machine’ to meet the unprecedented challenges facing the UK.
Growth should return to the UK economy towards the end of the year, and pick up a little pace during 2013, but unemployment looks set to peak at 2.7 million next year, according to the CBI’s quarterly...
