Business performance

Executive pay has continued to rise despite poor company performances, research has revealed. A study, carried out by corporate government body...

Switching staff job roles, adjusting working hours and investing in additional employee training are just some of the ways that...

British firms need to find £200m to plug a funding gap for the pensions of their top executives, the Guardian...

Swine flu hotline staff are poorly trained and are risking lives by misdiagnosing serious illnesses as flu, doctors have warned. A...

British firms outside of the financial sector should be protected from proposed changes to the bonus culture to prevent work...

Vince Cable has called for public sector pay budgets to be frozen and some managerial posts to be axed in...

Schools secretary Ed Balls has revealed government plans to cut up to 3,000 senior education positions, to save £2bn in...

British Airways’s (BA) temporary cabin crew will all lose their jobs by the end of next month, it has emerged....

Employers affected by the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) Code of Practice for Employee Remuneration face a flurry of activity over...

The ink hardly had time to dry on the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) code of practice on banking and financial...

Kellogg’s workers are to vote on a call for industrial action in a dispute about proposed job cuts.Usdaw union leaders representing...

Low-paid workers have been hit hardest during the recession, according to trade unions, with a 76,230 increase in the number...

Whitbread, the hotel, restaurant and café group, has closed its defined benefit pension scheme to existing members, the Financial Times...

Skills shortages continue to afflict employers despite rising unemployment and could damage their competitiveness in the recovery.Employers and recruitment agencies...

Barclays has ignored financial watchdog guidelines on bonuses, less than a year after the government bailed out the banking sector....