UK unemployment is rising fast, with official figures currently standing at 1.923 million - the highest since September 1997. But it seems this may be just the tip of the iceberg, with nearly half of...

The amount of weekly earnings, which counts towards statutory redundancy pay, has risen from 330 to 350 but, according to the TUC, in real terms, this is less than the original value of redundancy pay...

On the seventh day of unofficial strikes at oil refineries across the country over the use of foreign contractors, talks have resumed to attempt to find a solution to the problem.

Employers must not target groups for redundancy that traditionally find it difficult to get into the workplace, BT's director of people and policy Caroline Waters, has told organisations at the launch...

The Government has pledged to increase funding for training in the automotive sector from 65 million to 100 million as part of a series of measures in a support package announced by business secretary...

A day after Gordon Brown announced his "national crusade" for social mobility, a newspaper published this year's A level/GCSE league tables.

Staff who are off work due to long-term sickness will be entitled to paid holiday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.

An apprenticeship place will be made available to all young people leaving care, according to a new Government White Paper.

Hundreds of Zimbabweans converged on Downing Street yesterday asking to work, train and pay tax.

A new clampdown on health and safety offenders will come into effect on Friday (16 January) meaning courts will have greater powers to punish directors of companies who break the rules.

Some specialist units are still seen as closed shops for ethnic minority police officers in England and Wales.

Although more than one in 10 of the British population comes from an ethnic minority group, only one in 15 (6.8%) of ethnic minority staff were in a management position in 2007.