One-fifth of employees admit they have committed fraud against their employer, and more claim they are justified in the lead up to Christmas, a survey has found. Research by employee expenses service provider GlobalExpense found 20% of staff admit to  More...
25 November 2008 09:52

Employers cringe when they see an employee misbehaving in public , but what can they do about it? Stephanie Dale and Hannah Ford consider the options.   More...
08 October 2008 15:03

A former officer with the Metropolitan Police has been jailed for 10 months after admitting to employee fraud involving tens of thousands of pounds . Detective sergeant Richard de Cadenet, a former anti-terrorist officer who worked on a number of high  More...
23 September 2008 15:32

A Marks & Spencer (M&S) whistleblower who leaked the retailer's plans to cut redundancy benefits for more than 60,000 staff has been suspended and faces a disciplinary hearing, according to The Times . Last week internal plans to cut redund  More...
28 August 2008 07:13

Communications giant O2 has sacked at least six workers who used staff discounts to buy Apple iPhones and sold them on the internet at a profit, according to reports. Employees in London-based stores allegedly bought large quantities of the fashiona  More...
02 June 2008 16:13

A country-wide database of 'workplace offenders' will be launched later this month to combat the annual loss of half-a-billion pounds through staff theft and fraud. The National Staff Dismissal Register will allow employers to share and access detai  More...
08 May 2008 14:58

The recent media spotlight on the expenses claims of MPs should be a reminder to employers to keep an eye on the expenses claims of their own staff. In fact, recent surveys suggest that 5% to 20% of all expenses claims are either inflated or simply fic  More...
17 March 2008 16:00

Q One of our managers was out at a social event with staff. In an incident witnessed by everyone present, he got a female member of staff in a headlock and grabbed her breasts. The woman later reported the incident, but stated that she didn't want it ta  More...
13 March 2008 11:39

Court staff will face disciplinary action for serious failures that resulted in hundreds of defendants escaping trial and thousands more avoiding being recorded on the Police National Computer (PNC). Justice secretary Jack Straw announced an urgent   More...
13 March 2008 09:33

Half of small and medium-sized firms are "afraid" to discipline staff for fear of being sued, new research has found. A survey of 1,100 employers conducted by employment law firm, Peninsula, found that nine in 10 respondents would discipline staff i  More...
28 February 2008 11:28

One-third of Liverpool-based employers believe they should take an interest in the drinking exploits of their staff outside working hours. A survey of 300 businesses by the Centre for Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University, found that  More...
26 February 2008 15:21

Two staff who bound a student with plastic cable ties during a lesson at Folkestone Academy in Kent have been sacked. The teacher and a class instructor tied up 16-year-old Jamie Rolfe during an engineering lesson at the flagship academy, and were  More...
15 February 2008 14:24

In many cases, employees who are subject to disciplinary action are suspended as a matter of course. However, the recent case of Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust v Atkinson has highlighted the danger of suspension witho  More...
04 February 2008 13:00

Christmas parties are being binned like week-old turkey, according to the first of what will surely be a stockingful of surveys tenuously related to the birth of Jesus. More than a third of organisations will not be holding festive bashes this year,   More...
29 November 2007 10:09

An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report has found that Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tried to prevent its investigation into the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005. The report underlined a series of failings, including  More...
09 November 2007 08:00

Say it quietly but, it seems, the "S" word is alive and well in the workplace and having a positive effect on morale. Swearing, according to recent research from the University of East Anglia-based Norwich Business School, is regularly used to re  More...
29 October 2007 00:00

A total ban on employees accessing Facebook, MySpace or Bebo at work is an "over-reaction", the TUC has warned. Instead, employers should trust staff to spend a few minutes of their lunchbreak 'poking' their friends or making plans for activities out  More...
30 August 2007 12:37

Doctors trained overseas are twice as likely as those who graduated in the UK to face formal disciplinary hearings after a complaint has been made against them, it has been revealed. A General Medical Council (GMC) report showed that less than 16%  More...
10 August 2007 15:00

Poor timekeeping, unauthorised absence and poor performance levels are rife in the average workplace, according to research by Personnel Today’s sister publication, Employment Review . When HR practitioners were asked about the issues that frequent  More...
10 July 2007 00:00

New legislation handing local authorities the power to issue parking-style fines to businesses for breaching trading and environmental health rules could be abused as a council revenue raiser, retailers have warned. The British Retail   More...
18 May 2007 11:30