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Thousands of employers may be forced to rewrite shift patterns due to the latest European ruling on working time regulations. The judgment, expressed by the Advocate General and almost certain …
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It is now evident that when the incoming Labour government proudly signed the Social Chapter in 1997 it had no plan of how to implement the laws that would follow. …
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Working time special • European law counters UK drive for looser working time law The Government has delivered its promise to employers to lighten the burden of the Working Time …
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A grey area of strike law is set to be tested in the courts. London-based train operator Connex is considering legal action to try to break an informal overtime ban …
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Hyder and Unison are well on the way to salvaging their 10-year partnership agreement which was heading for the rocks three weeks ago. Unison threatened to end the partnership if …
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Nearly two thirds of employers have failed to implement the new parental leave regulations, according to independent research. It found that employers were not in a position to honour the …
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Graduates will desert companies unless promises made to them in the recruitment process are met. Inadequate training and development, poor career management and boring work were found to be the …
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Devolving HR duties to line managers can lead to institutional racism in organisations, one of the authors of a study told the conference. The discrimination arises from lack of training …
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The UK’s long-hours culture is damaging the physical health of staff, but extra overtime can improve their mental well-being, research has found. Employees who volunteer to work longer hours often …
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Mary Cope, head of HR at Eicon Technology since 1995, has been promoted to the new role of European HR director. Eicon is a computer networking company which produces hardware …
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• Last year, IT experts managed to convince us that computers would not be able to figure out that 2000 comes after 1999. Naïvely, many believed that the Millennium Bug …
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• Unemployment has dipped once more in France, and is now just below 11 per cent of the working population, latest official figures show. In November the number of unemployed …
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Casual staff are not entitled to a written statement of terms and conditions of employment after a House of Lords ruling. In Carmichael v National Power, the Lords overturned a …
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• More than half of HR departments audit their performance against internal or external criteria, research by the Industrial Society has found. The most frequent measures used are management information …
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• The construction industry needs 367,000 new recruits over the next five years, a report by the Construction Industry Training Board has found. Carpenters and joiners (51,200 recruits needed), managers …