Two US Domino's Pizza staff sacked for posting video of 'inappropriate' workplace behaviour on YouTube

Domino's Pizza has fired two American employees for behaving 'inappropriately' in the workplace and posting their antics on YouTube.

Unions have little power to prevent job cuts

Redundancies are reported daily, but it was the throwing of fruit at union leaders when BMW cut the jobs of about 850 workers in Oxford that made prime-time headlines in February.

Budget 2009 predictions: Government urged to compensate workers whose hours and pay were cut by employers

Industry bodies and trade unions have joined forces to demand the Government introduces a short-time working solution across the UK in Wednesday's Budget.

Work Foundation demands Budget measures to invest in prevention of mass unemployment

The Government must invest in a 23 billion package of measures in the Budget to reduce the growing threat of mass unemployment, according to the Work Foundation.

Damian McBride email fiasco is a warning to bosses to monitor employee internet use

Following the headlines earlier in the week about Labour adviser Damian McBride's attempted smear campaign of Conservative MPs, employees should be warned to think twice before sending personal emails...

Sir Alan Sugar practice of firing on a personal whim in The Apprentice sets bad example to others

Sir Alan Sugar sets a "very bad example" to UK employers, according to one equality expert.

Budget 2009 predictions: Odds show employers' National Insurance contributions hike likely to be deferred to 2012

The proposed 0.5% increase in employers' National Insurance Contributions, announced in the pre-Budget report in November, will probably be deferred from 2011 until 2012, according to MacIntyre...

Treat employees fairly during the downturn to ensure they won't hit the road in the upturn

Harsh new economic realities mean that we are witnessing the re-emergence of a master-servant relationship in the workplace, not because laws have changed to return us to Victorian values, but because...

Eastern European migrant workers must still register with UK Borders Authority

The Government has decided not to scrap the strict working regulations for migrant workers coming to Britain from Eastern Europe

Budget 2009 Predictions: The chancellor may postpone higher band income tax increases announced in pre-Budget report

The Government could defer several of the tax increases it announced for 2010 and 2011 due to the deepening recession, according to chartered accountants MacIntyre Hudson.

Women claiming equal pay no longer need to name male colleague doing same job for more money

As many as 7,000 women will be able to pursue claims for equal pay following a Court of Appeal ruling yesterday.

New Acas code of practice should make it easier to deal with disciplinary and grievance issues

From today, amendments to the Employment Act 2008 mean a simplified system for dealing with disciplinary and grievance issues.