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An agreement between London Underground and the ASLEF and RMT rail unions could have averted the threat of further tube strikes. The unions have suspended the strikes after they last …
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Companies may be forced to provide holiday pay for staff who have been employed for less than 13 weeks if a proposal put forward by a European legal expert becomes …
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Off-road car maker Land Rover has been forced to shed 200 jobs and cut back production of its top selling model because it cannot get enough engines. Land Rover will …
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Employers hoping that Acas’s long awaited voluntary arbitration process will reduce the time and cost of resolving work place disputes could be disappointed according to The Industrial Society. Yvonne Bennion, …
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Corus steelworkers have voted to strike in protest at compulsory job losses announced by the firm. Workers at the firm’s Scunthorpe plant in Lincolnshire voted by 60 per cent in …
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Employers face a multi-million pound bill following a ruling that part-time workers previously denied pension rights might be entitled to compensation backdated to 1976. Employers argued that the right should …
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At least 700 workers are staging a 24-hour strike at Rolls-Royce factory in Ansty, Coventry today to protest at job cuts and the transfer of work to Canada. Union members …
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Barclays confirmed that it will lose more than a 1,000 jobs as a result of its merger with Woolwich. The bank claimed it will be achieved through natural wastage and …
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At least 300 staff at Carlton TV are balloting for industrial action in response to the management’s offer of a 2.5 per cent pay rise. Members affiliated to the broadcasting …
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New regulations announced by the Government aimed at making it easier for temporary workers to become permanent employers are potentially disastrous. This is the view of the Association of Technology …
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A recruitment agency for the over 40s has placed over 1,200 people back into work and just opened its fifth outlet. Forty Plus, which was set up four years ago, …
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The Bank of England has cut interest rates by one quarter of one per cent – the first cut in 20 months. The Monetary Policy Committee’s decision means that the …
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The British Psychological Society has drafted an agreed set of standards for assessment centres, which it hopes to publish by May 2001. A recent survey by the association of graduate …
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A Safeway employee who slipped on a wet floor and injured her back could receive a payout of £250,000. Supermarket supervisor Donna Lougheed, 52, was yesterday granted appeal against a …
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Mobile workers using laptops work longer hours than average workers and are more productive, according to a MORI Internet survey. Despite laptop users claiming they commonly work six day weeks, …