Redundancy is the primary tool used by managers and directors to regulate their businesses through economic cycles, but are the true costs of redundancy ever calculated? Are the alternatives ever...

Unemployment has fallen by 0.1% in the three months to April 2012, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The Government has responded to Law Society calls for clarification about the validity of compromise agreements drafted under the Equality Act.

In a follow-up to the chancellor’s Budget statement last week the employment projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) show that the public sector workforce is on course to fall to a...

In its Work Audit report, published today, the CIPD looks at the impact of the jobs recession that began in 2008 on employers, workers and the economy as a whole.

Insurance firm Prudential is thought to be considering moving its headquarters out of the UK to avoid EU capital rules coming into effect in 2014.

The employment rate has risen 0.1% on the quarter and there are 29.13 million people in employment aged 16 and over, up 60,000 on the previous quarter, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Unemployment has risen to 2.68 million, increasing by 118,000 between September and November 2011.

The CIPD has forecast the number of people in work in the UK will fall by 120,000 in 2012 despite a continued ‘productivity pause’ and further real pay squeeze, with unemployment rising to 2.85...

More than two fifths of UK managers are expecting more redundancies in 2012 and over a third feel insecure in their own jobs, according to the annual end of year research from the Chartered Management...

There were 2.64 million unemployed people in the third quarter of 2011, up 128,000 on the previous three months quarter, findings from the Office of National Statistics revealed this morning.

Thomas Cook will close up to 200 of its 1,300 stores over the next two years as part of its “thorough review of the profitability of the UK business”.