Temps from employment agencies will soon be given the same rights as permanent staff. The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 come into force on 1 October this year, so any employers using agency temps,...
Graduates are set to pay more towards the cost of their degrees, but the Government proposes this will improve their experience as students, expand their choices and make universities more accountable...
As has been widely reported, Jack Warner has resigned from FIFA’s Executive Committee.
With Alex McLeish recently leaving his post at Birmingham City to join arch rivals Aston Villa, the potentially contentious and expensive legal consequences of leaving one employer to work for a...
The long-running dispute between around 10,000 British Airways cabin crew and their employer is now over, trade union Unite has announced.
About 20% of married couples meet at work. If the contents of unreasonable behaviour divorce petitions are anything to go by, and with ever increasing numbers of workplace affairs, many involving a...
A proposal to remove the National Minimum Wage for some employees had its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday (17 June 2011).
Thousands of schools, colleges and universities across England and Wales face closure on Thursday 30 June as the National Union of Teachers, Association of Teachers and Lecturers and the Universities...
The Government has allowed urgently-needed public service reform to be derailed by 'forces of inertia', and gives the impression of 'having lost its way, uneasy about reforms and unsure about how to...
More than a quarter of a million civil and public servants yesterday joined teachers in voting for a strike over cuts to pensions, jobs and pay.
There has been a recent spate of high-profile whistleblowing cases reported in the press. The public was shocked that repeated attempts to blow the whistle by a nurse working at the Winterbourne Care...
Last week saw the launch of a major three-month Home Office consultation on, among other things, employment-related settlement in the UK, with a clear aim to eliminate permanent settlement except in...
