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A British Airways (BA) worker who volunteered to cover potential cabin crew strikes has appeared in court charged with plotting a suicide bombing. Rajib Karim, an IT developer at BA's Newcastle office, faced three charges under the counter-terrorism  More...
12 March 2010 08:27

Network Rail maintenance workers could walkout over the Easter period after voting in favour of strike action. The ballot by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), over Network Rail's plans to cut up to 1,500 maintenance jobs and change work  More...
12 March 2010 08:21

Employers must pay staff their full holiday entitlements if they are off sick for more than a year and are unable to take their leave, a tribunal has confirmed. A Sheffield employment tribunal has ruled that James Rawlings, who was off sick fo  More...
11 March 2010 15:22

Morrisons will create 20,000 new jobs over the next three years, Personnel Today has learned. Norman Pickavance, group HR director, told the magazine the jobs would be created as Morrison's looks to open up to 60 new stores across the country in t  More...
11 March 2010 14:23

Morrisons has pledged to open more small stores. The supermarket giant reported a 30% rise in full year pre-tax profits to £858m as turnover rose by 6% to £15.4bn. Morrisons, which is Britain's fourth-biggest supermarket chain, has opened 45 st  More...
11 March 2010 09:34

JD Wetherspoon looks set to continue its programme of expansion after reporting first half-profits of £36.2m. The pubs operator announced it would restore the dividend payments that it suspended one year ago after the recession sparked a collapse i  More...
11 March 2010 09:27

Talks between British Airways and the Union Unite aimed at averting a strike have collapsed without agreement. Union leaders representing British Airways cabin crew will meet later to decide whether to call industrial action in a row over pay,   More...
11 March 2010 08:59

Unite has welcomed Northern Rock's decision to pay out staff bonuses despite the fact that the mortgage lender failed to make a profit last year. The bank's chief executive Gary Hoffman defended paying out rewards to 32 staff, saying the company was  More...
11 March 2010 08:47

Toyota is to scrap 150 jobs at one of its engine plants, but all redundancies will be voluntary. The car giant will make the cuts at its site in Deeside, near Chester and expects to begin taking applications for severance in the summer. A pay f  More...
11 March 2010 08:35

McDonald's is to offer 10-days work experience as part of a GCSE-equivalent qualification for the first time ever, the fast food giant will reveal today. Teenagers will have to apply online and attend a formal interview to get onto the work pla  More...
11 March 2010 00:07

Senior civil servants and public sector workers will have their pay frozen for the next financial year, the government has announced. Prime minister Gordon Brown said today senior civil servants, senior NHS managers earning more than £81,800, judici  More...
10 March 2010 14:35

Tax breaks should be given to employers to encourage the hiring of young non-graduates and help tackle unemployment, industry experts have argued. It follows a call by the Association of Graduate Recruiters this week for graduate employers to be gi  More...
10 March 2010 14:35

The number of skills shortage vacancies has fallen dramatically in the past two years, new research shows. The UK Commission for Employment and Skills' (UKCES) annual survey of 80,000 employers found that the number of skills shortage vacancies w  More...
10 March 2010 10:44

A record numbers of candidates have considered a career in social care over the past month, the government has claimed. More than 28,000 people have expressed an interest in working in the sector, which has been blighted by the Baby P scandal, by re  More...
10 March 2010 10:01

The first national rail strike in 16 years drew a step closer yesterday as Network Rail revealed it had considered contingency plans to handle thousands of workers walking out. Strike ballot results are expected tomorrow by 12,000 maintenance worker  More...
10 March 2010 09:06

A Tesco board director will today criticise the education system for churning out pupils with poor literacy and numeracy skills and an "attitude problem", making them harder to recruit. Lucy Neville-Rolfe, executive director of corporate and legal af  More...
10 March 2010 08:45

Civil service strike-breakers pretended to be answering machines to cope with a high volume of calls during Monday's industrial action, it has been claimed. Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants in Carlisle have alleged they were ord  More...
10 March 2010 08:31

Employers are likely to be left confused as to what counts and does not count as a protected belief under the Equality Bill, employers groups have warned. It follows the publication of a draft Employment Statutory Code of Practice , which explains  More...
10 March 2010 08:23

Pensions remain the most important employee benefit on top of salary that an employer can offer, a study has found. This is despite more than one-third of workers (38%) worrying their own pension funds would be inadequate during their retirement,&nb  More...
10 March 2010 08:11

Lillian Ladele, the Christian registrar who lost her job after refusing to conduct civil ceremonies, has been refused the right to appeal her case at the Supreme Court. The UK's highest court said Ladele's situation did not raise legal points of "ge  More...
09 March 2010 17:15