UK employers are estimated to have paid out £4.4 billion in redundancy payments over the last year, according to law firm Wedlake Bell.

Learndirect has launched a range of compliance courses to keep employers up-to-date on health and safety legislation.

The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) has expressed concern over a sharp rise in the number of age discrimination claims and warns the figure is likely to continue rising.

Temps from employment agencies will soon be given the same rights as permanent staff. The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 come into force on 1 October this year, so any employers using agency temps,...

Graduates are set to pay more towards the cost of their degrees, but the Government proposes this will improve their experience as students, expand their choices and make universities more accountable...

As has been widely reported, Jack Warner has resigned from FIFA’s Executive Committee.

With Alex McLeish recently leaving his post at Birmingham City to join arch rivals Aston Villa, the potentially contentious and expensive legal consequences of leaving one employer to work for a...

The long-running dispute between around 10,000 British Airways cabin crew and their employer is now over, trade union Unite has announced.

Caroline Waters, BT’s director of people and policy, has spoken publicly about the impact equality has had on business, in a bid to encourage employers to become involved in the Government's Red Tape...

About 20% of married couples meet at work. If the contents of unreasonable behaviour divorce petitions are anything to go by, and with ever increasing numbers of workplace affairs, many involving a...

As the Pensions Bill makes its way through The Commons, older workers are still often neglected when it comes to training and performance management according to a report this week from the CIPD.

A proposal to remove the National Minimum Wage for some employees had its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday (17 June 2011).