The comments from Geraldine Hetherington, chief operating officer of Hudson UK - regarding 16% of UK workers making contact with their workplace while on holiday this summer - miss the point (Personnel Today.com, 1 August). It is not about what organisat  More...
23 August 2005 00:00

Brits on breaks kept informed of big work pile up awaiting their return.  More...
11 August 2005 08:30

Cliff Richard once sang: "We're all going on a summer holiday, no more worries for a week or two" - aside from horrendous airport delays, unfinished hotel developments, stomach complaints, and pot-bellied lager louts from Essex, of course (if, like Guru,  More...
09 August 2005 00:00

Not telling your bosses you are going away - whether that be on an all inclusive to Benidorm or indeed prison - can have serious consequences. Now while Guru is loathe to give the oxygen of publicity to Z-list celebrities such as Abi Titmuss (the kiss  More...
09 August 2005 00:00

Sixteen per cent of workers will contact their place of work at least once during their summer holiday   More...
01 August 2005 10:15

Almost half of all holidaymakers have their break interrupted by calls from work, research has shown.  More...
26 July 2005 10:00

UK employers are risking discrimination claims this summer because they are too family-friendly with holiday entitlement, experts have warned  More...
26 July 2005 09:50

Unfortunately for employers, holidays are solely there to remind us all that there is much more to life than work   More...
21 June 2005 00:00

What are bank holidays? Bank holidays are days when banks in the UK may close for business. Although they are widely observed throughout non-financial sectors in many parts of the UK, employees are not automatically entitled to a day off or extra pay   More...
14 June 2005 00:00

Staff will give up more than14 million days of paid holiday entitlement this year   More...
26 May 2005 11:30

Having worked their socks off during the election campaign, MPs are off for a well-earned 80-day rest.  More...
23 May 2005 08:00

Sainsbury’s has launched an extensive recruitment drive that will see it create 10,000 full-time jobs by the end of the year – exclusively for the over-50s.  More...
18 May 2005 15:36

The sheer scale of the response to the Pope's death last month acted as a forceful reminder of the importance of faith to many people. Employment law expert Marian Bloodworth explains how employers should treat staff who request leave on religious grounds   More...
17 May 2005 00:00

Ainsworth v Inland Revenue, Court of Appeal, 22 April 2005   More...
10 May 2005 00:00

Employees on long-term sick leave will not be allowed to accrue holiday pay while they are absent, following a landmark decision at the Court of Appeal. In Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth, the court ruled that regulations allowing staff pa  More...
04 May 2005 00:00

More than a quarter of workers in the travel industry do not take their full annual leave, survey shows  More...
28 April 2005 08:00

Holidaymakers are taking their workplace worries with them when they take a break.  More...
14 April 2005 09:43

Marketing and media staff keep one eye on the door as work-life balance suffers.  More...
06 April 2005 15:43

Healthcare plans and additional holiday have overtaken company cars as the most popular employee benefits, research reveals.  More...
06 April 2005 09:00

Employers will no longer be allowed to include Bank Holidays in annual leave if Labour wins the general election, Tony Blair has announced. The plans will benefit two million workers currently forced to take Bank Holidays as part of their annual hol  More...
29 March 2005 11:29