Thousands of public-sector employees will share the fate of redundant private-sector staff in the New Year as part of Government savings.

With official unemployment figures rising dramatically 1.82 million at the last count and thousands of new job losses announced on a near daily basis, many HR departments may be in the unfortunate...

The scrapping of the opt-out of the UKs working time directive will negatively impact customer service, according to 65% of employers, although 35% were unaware of the changes when the news broke on...

The European Parliament has voted to remove the UKs opt-out from the Working Time Regulations, meaning employees will not be allowed to work more than 48 hours per week on average over 12-week...

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell announced virtually everyone who is unemployed will have to do something in return for their benefits money.

On 26 August 2008 the Government published further consultation on an extension to the right to request flexible working and now it intends to extend the right to parents with children up to the age...

The Government plans to allow employees the right to request time off work to train.

The Government has affirmed it will stick with plans to extend the right to flexible working to parents of children up to the age of 16 instead of age six.

The Government has announced a single Equality Bill, allowing employees to share information on how much they get paid as a means of closing the gender pay gap.

Westminster Council is set to invest more than 1 million to help 3,000 of Londons unemployed back into work.

Employers have been warned to brace themselves for a trend that has emerged where job candidates exploit age discrimination legislation to file claims against a raft of employers at the same time.

The Government is to invest 1.3 billion in supporting employment.