The Government’s reform plan announced in June sets out the ambition to reform the civil service into a sharper, quicker, more agile ‘machine’ to meet the unprecedented challenges facing the UK.
Growth should return to the UK economy towards the end of the year, and pick up a little pace during 2013, but unemployment looks set to peak at 2.7 million next year, according to the CBI’s quarterly...
Apprentice training organisations have welcomed the recognition from a Government review that apprenticeships are as important for upskilling the adult workforce as they are for creating new jobs for...
It took an act of Parliament to allow shops to extend their opening hours during the London 2012 Olympics.
The quality of first aid training is bound to decline and the medical attention given to employees could put them at risk, if the government's proposal to remove the need for training providers to be...
The Government will increase awareness among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of the benefits of apprenticeships, and make support for small businesses taking on apprentices simpler and more...
The majority of hourly workers around the world, including 63% in the UK, believe their employer has violated laws or rules governing overtime in their region according to A global survey commissioned...
One in two employers is under prepared for evacuations in the workplace and wheelchair users and the mobility-impaired are most at risk from being unable to make a safe escape, according to a survey...
More than half of fleets (57%) do not test drivers for alcohol, and an even greater proportion (63%) do not test for illegal drugs.
Business leaders have low confidence in Government’s proposals for growth in the UK, and just under two thirds (62%) believe Government plans to simplify employment law have, so far, been...
Tesco could be fined up to £200,000 after foreign students at one of its warehouses were found to be working illegally.
Staff strikes are an “increasingly common fact of life in the public and private sector”, and are something that employers need to plan for in the current economy, employment law experts have warned.
