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UK keeps its opt-out from working time regulations

It is official. The UK will retain its opt-out from a 48-hour week Working Time Directive, after negotiations at the European Parliament broke down without reaching agreement.

Budget 2009: Income tax hike for high-earners

The chancellor, Alistair Darling, has confirmed income tax will increase for high earners from 2010 but will affect those with salaries higher than 150,000 who will see their income tax on their...

Budget 2009: Huge government investment in getting unemployed back to work

The Government is to invest 1.7 billion in helping unemployed people into work.

Budget 2009: High earners to lose tax breaks on pension contributions

The Government will remove the higher rate tax relief on pensions contributions.

Woolfson on Westminster: nudging people to make decisions that are in their own and society's best interests

Last summer, top of every politico's reading list was a book on behavioural economics written by Chicago University academics Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. Their book, Nudge: Improving Decisions...

Budget 2009: Raised statutory redundancy pay could add to firms' costs and increase risk for younger staff

The Government will increase statutory redundancy pay from 350 per week to 380 per week.

MPs criticised for opting to take 12-week summer holiday

MPs have decided to take a 12-week summer holiday this year - more than twice what the average UK employee is awarded as annual holiday entitlement.

Prime minister calls for vote on overhaul of MPs' expenses to be held next week

The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has announced proposals to make the system of awarding MPs' expenses simpler - and less generous.

CIPD calls for Budget cuts in payroll taxes to help keep people in jobs

While the chancellor, Alistair Darling, suggests that Government invest in helping the unemployed into work, the CIPD warns the Budget should be used to cut employers' National Insurance Contributions...

Accountability without a witch hunt

How to tackle the growing unwillingness to accept responsibility without building a blame culture.

Shifting blame is the name of the game

At risk of sounding like some old curmudgeon, am I the only one who thinks there is something seriously wrong with society today? Schools employing bouncers to control kids; police arresting people...