The CIPD has launched practical guidance on the people management requirements of organisations involved in business transfers and service provision changes.

The implementation of the Agency Workers' Directive (AWD) will be delayed until December 2011 if the Conservatives ?come to power after the next general election, according to Jonathan Djanogly,...

The Conservative party is to raise the state retirement age from 65 to 66.

In order to tackle unemployment the Government must stop all business regulation and simplify red tape, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

More than half a million employees are uninsured at work and only a third of employers understand their legal insurance obligations, according to AXA Insurance.

Employers in new companies could be given a national insurance contribution holiday for new staff in a bid to create 60,000 jobs.

Anyone who has been following the story of Carol Hill, the Essex school dinner lady sacked for telling parents that their child had been bullied, may feel aggrieved at reports that she was not...

Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party Conference last Tuesday seems to have been overshadowed by the almost simultaneous announcement from The Sun that it will be backing David Cameron's...

Weekly pay for statutory redundancy purposes has risen from 350 to 380 and the maximum statutory redundancy payment has increased to 1,1400.

Employers in the hospitality sector have been warned not to be caught out by new Government legislation, in which the practice of using tips to boost staff pay to National Minimum Wage levels has been...

By 2010 the Civil Service will be completely retirement free - for anyone who wants to carry on working, according to Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell.

The number of unfair dismissal claims has risen by 29% to 52,711 since 2008, according to the Tribunals Service.