The failure of a number of well-known businesses over the last few years has meant that the term “administration” has become familiar to the man in the street. The very word could also cause mass...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided in USDAW v WW Realisation Ltd that the duty to collectively consult over redundancies is triggered whenever a company proposes to make 20 or more...
Lloyds Banking Group has incurred union anger over plans to cut 850 jobs and close an office in Southend, Essex.
Workplace expert ACAS has published a new guidance to help employers handle collective redundancies, in connection with the legislative changes that came into effect on 6 April 2013.
Since the financial crisis of 2008, 3.7 million employees in the UK have been made redundant, according to a report published today by the Jobs Economist consultancy.
Employment relations minister Jo Swinson has announced that the collective redundancy consultation period, in situations where 100 or more employees are involved, is to be cut from 90 days to 45 days.
A third of UK employers will either implement or consider introducing redundancies this year, according to a report published today by HR consultancy firm Aon Hewitt.
Employment relations minister Jo Swinson has announced that the collective redundancy consultation period, in situations where 100 or more employees are involved, is to be cut from 90 days to 45 days.
BBC journalists have begun a 24-hour strike in a dispute over compulsory redundancies.
Financial giant UBS last year cut thousands of jobs from its global workforce. It has drawn headlines for the way it locked employees out of their workplaces, putting these individuals on “special...
Last year, Vicky lost her job as an HR consultant in a department restructure. “It was a brutal process,” she says. “I was already looking for a new role, but this made my search more urgent and less...
Following plans to close 15 factories at disabled employer Remploy, with potential redundancies of 900, the Government announced yesterday it proposes to accelerate the process.
