The TUC has welcomed the Government's early commitment to lesbian gay bisexual and transgender equality but warn this must be backed up with a "real change of heart" within Government.

A new Cabinet committee with the job of reducing red tape on business, which is chaired by Business Secretary Vince Cable, met for the first time yesterday.

Earlier this year the UK economy emerged from the longest recession since records began. While conditions have been tough for everyone, examples of how some businesses have coped, and of recent case...

The controversial case of Gibb v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has gone to the heart of the highly relevant issue of whether employers can offer generous terms of payment for terminating...

The Department for Work and Pensions has announced it will 'reinvigorate retirement' by reforming the pension system.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Corporate Health and Safety Committee (CHSC) have now released their government approved plan for 2009 - 2012 which sets out three key themes that all...

HR managers and directors across the NHS have revealed how the threat of significant public-spending cuts is affecting staff performance and, critically, threatening to widen the divide between...

The public-sector trade union has accused the Government of piling more misery onto workers, with its plan to raise the state pension age for men to 66 by 2016.

In the C-suite column David Price, managing director of Direct Response Security, commented on what he described as the 'latest chapter in [his] reputation management battle'.

The Government has pledged to take 850,000 low earning employees out of income tax through new tax breaks.

The chancellor of the Exchequer has announced a two-year pay freeze for public-sector staff earning more than 21,000 in salary.

The Government is to raise VAT from 17.5% to 20% from 4 January