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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

Serial litigants have been dealt a blow after a tribunal ruled job applications must be genuine before a claimant can suffer statutory discrimination. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled in the case of Keane v Investigo and others that Ma  More...
09 March 2010 16:18

EXCLUSIVE Morrisons will advertise careers available at the supermarket to school pupils for the first time to crush the myth that retail jobs are just about shelf-stacking, Personnel Today has learned. Norman Pickavance, group HR director of  More...
09 March 2010 16:08

Fresh fears of a "jobless recovery" resurfaced today as a labour market survey forecast slim recruitment intentions for the second quarter of the year. The Manpower Employment Outlook survey, based on 2,100 employers, showed just a 1% rise in hiring  More...
09 March 2010 11:51

Vodafone is set to announce 375 job cuts, including back-office positions, at its headquarters in Newbury. As part of a £1bn cost-cutting programme, announced last year, Vodafone will reduce the number of people working for the company in areas like  More...
09 March 2010 09:07

The long-term unemployed are to receive home visits from Jobcentre advisers to help them find work. Under government plans to reduce the numbers receiving jobseeker's allowance, work and pensions minister Helen Goodman is set to announce plans today  More...
09 March 2010 09:03

British Airways (BA) is thought to have rejected proposals from the union Unite aimed at preventing a strike by cabin crew. Unite is said to have offered a two-year pay freeze and accepted the recruitment of new cabin crew on different pay and condit  More...
09 March 2010 08:45

Vegans and atheists should be afforded the same protection from discrimination as religious groups, guidance on the Equality Bill states. The code of practice, prepared by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to help employers int  More...
09 March 2010 08:37

Royal Mail has reached an agreement with the postal union, ending the threat of further strikes. The postal service and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) reached the deal in the long-running row about pay and working practices which resulted in   More...
09 March 2010 08:30

Kraft Foods is to be investigated by UK regulators into whether it misled Cadbury's employees during its takeover bid. The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers is looking into statements made by Kraft executives about the future of Cadbury's Somerdale fac  More...
09 March 2010 08:22

The HR jobs market has continued to show strong growth as the number of vacancies advertised online increased by 14% in the past month. The Monster Employment Index found the number of HR jobs advertised online rose by 14% (10 points) from 69 in Ja  More...
09 March 2010 00:40

Graduate employers should be given tax breaks to encourage them to hire more young workers, the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has said. Launching its manifesto Talent, Opportunity, Prosperity , the association has set out its vision for   More...
09 March 2010 00:35

Union leaders have hit back at government claims that today's public sector strike was not well supported, insisting there was "widespread disruption" as 200,000 staff staged a walk-out in a dispute over redundancy terms. The Cabinet Office said tha  More...
08 March 2010 17:53

Men and women have markedly different views on how far UK employers have progressed on gender equality, research has revealed. The survey of nearly 2,000 UK workers by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), shows that 44% of men be  More...
08 March 2010 17:12

Record numbers of head teachers lost their jobs last year due to school closures and poor exam results, according to a union leader. John Dunford, head of the Association of Schools and College Leaders (ASCL) said 163 of the association's members lo  More...
08 March 2010 10:19

The government is to announce proposals today to force companies to make public what they are doing to increase the number of women in senior roles. Ministers have asked the Financial Reporting Council to consider adding a clause to the UK corporate  More...
08 March 2010 09:32

EXCLUSIVE Further questions have been raised about the approach of anti-bullying charity boss and chartered fellow of the CIPD, Christine Pratt, after a source revealed concerns about conflict of interest had led to a complaint being made to  More...
08 March 2010 09:24

Women are still failing to break into senior management or gain places on the board, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report. In the 20 countries covered by the Corporate Gender Gap Report , an average of less than 5% of companies ha  More...
08 March 2010 09:21

Asda today announced plans to work with Unite the union to tackle discrimination against migrant workers . The supermarket chain will require its UK meat and poultry suppliers to stop paying migrant workers less than UK nationals for the same w  More...
08 March 2010 08:47

More than a quarter of a million civil servants are expected to strike today over planned cuts to their redundancy entitlement. Up to 270,000 members of the Public Services and Commercial Union (PCS) are staging a 48-hour national strike over   More...
08 March 2010 08:39