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University of Sussex teachers and researchers are set to hold a one-day strike today (18 March) in response to proposed redundancies and lecturing changes. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) are angry at the university's plans to make  More...
18 March 2010 09:31

The Land Registry will cut a further 800 jobs, it has emerged. About 1,500 jobs are already set to go by the end of 2011, but the new cull would take place by 2014, bringing the total workforce to about 4,200. The organisation hopes to achieve th  More...
18 March 2010 09:15

British Airways (BA) cabin crew who have called in sick since the weekend will be deemed to be supporting the strikes if they are still off when the walkouts start, the airline has warned. This would allow the firm to take disciplinary action agains  More...
18 March 2010 09:07

Police spend one-fifth of their time completing back-office duties such as HR, IT and finance, research has shown. A report into how forces spend their time – and £13.5bn a year – also found just one-third of police time is spent on the be  More...
18 March 2010 08:30

The latest 'Jedi' who is claiming religious discrimination reflects the increasing number of "bizarre beliefs" being cited in claims, according to legal experts. Chris Jarvis, a member of the International Church of Jediism, whose doctrine decrees m  More...
18 March 2010 07:53

Half of NHS workers have warned that trusts are understaffed and feel they lack sufficient time to do their jobs properly, a survey has revealed. The 2009 NHS staff survey of 159,500 workers also showed the level of staff-on-staff violence has fa  More...
17 March 2010 17:41

10 things employment bodies want from the Budget (and how likely they are to get it) 1 Tax-raising alternatives to the planned increase in employers' national insurance contributions 2 Freeze in the public sector wag  More...
17 March 2010 15:55

More than 5,000 employment tribunals are said to have been avoided after the launch of Acas' pre-claim conciliation service, the arbitration body has claimed. Acas helpline advisers have referred some 8.034 cases to the pre-claim service since its l  More...
17 March 2010 15:40

Skills shortages remain a worrying issue for many UK companies despite millions of people being unemployed, research revealed today. Almost one-third (31%) of the 209 companies surveyed by the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils said that it is not  More...
17 March 2010 15:11

The Local Government Association (LGA) has insisted that the pay of council chief executives is already open to public scrutiny after a report from the Audit Commission called for more transparency in severance packages. The Audit Commission report,   More...
17 March 2010 14:38

According to a new survey by Denplan , the number of Britons heading to the dentist has dropped markedly over the last year.   The proportion of people who say they attend every six months has dropped from three in five, to barely two in five peo  More...
17 March 2010 13:40

Bakkavor Group, a leading manufacturing company specialising in freshly prepared foods, has selected Cezanne Software to provide systems to manage key strategic Human Resources (HR) activities across its international operations. Bakkavor  More...
17 March 2010 13:18

Commenting on Jacqui Smith's tenure as home secretary, Digby Jones, former director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and minister of state for trade and investment, said: "With no training or experience, she had taken up the rei  More...
17 March 2010 12:00

Climate change is generally accepted as the largest single issue facing humankind, and according to recent government statistics, the impact of the non-domestic sector is significantly higher than that of residential users. Despite the current econ  More...
17 March 2010 12:00

Employers' groups have cautiously welcomed today's announcement of a surprise fall in unemployment figures, but warned that the statistics mask some "worrying trends". The official statistics for the three months to January show that unemployment   More...
17 March 2010 11:39

The unemployment rate fell by 0.1% in the three months to January 2010, marking the first quarterly fall since the three months to May 2008, official figures revealed today. The number of unemployed people fell by 33,000 over the quarter to reach 2.  More...
17 March 2010 10:44

KPMG is set to fill another 2,800 jobs this year on top of the 700 positions already being advertised, Personnel Today has learned. Michelle Quest, head of people at the professional services firm, said the company planned to return to pre-recessi  More...
17 March 2010 10:24

The dispute between British Airways (BA) and Unite will become international today when representatives of the union meet with counterparts at Teamsters, the powerful US trade union, to discuss the looming cabin crew strike. Teamsters members have t  More...
17 March 2010 09:17

A City lawyer who had claimed £19m in compensation over workplace bullying has settled for an undisclosed multi-million-pound sum. Gill Switalski, 54, who earned £140,000 a year at F&C Asset Management, had already won her claims for sexual disc  More...
17 March 2010 09:06

The government scheme aimed at encouraging low-paid employees to save for their retirement could be a "disaster", experts have warned. The call came after the government revealed that all contributions into the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest  More...
17 March 2010 08:52