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The postal workers’ union has said that 16,000 Royal Mail staff in London are likely to strike next month in...

Business groups are disappointed that the UK minimum wage will increase by 7p to £5.80 per hour from October, claiming...

The Equality Bill has been criticised as poorly timed and “bureaucratic” by opposition politicians. Published yesterday, the bill replaces nine diversity...

Network Rail has revealed that senior managers will collect bonuses next year,despite government criticism.At the CIPD’s HRD 2009 conference, Marc Auckland,...

Bright HR chiefs at the Civil Service are being hampered by senior leaders unwilling to make “unpopular decisions” to improve...

Gordon Brown has stepped in to restrict senior civil servant pay rises to 1.5% today,urging the executives to show “leadership”...

Acas’s new workplace problem-solving process, a less prescriptive approach to dealing with grievance and disciplinary cases, comes into force on...

Wildcat strikes in support of protests over the use of foreign labour show no sign of ending, despite the adverse...

The government may top-up the cash of car workers who have had their hours reduced in the downturn.Earlier this week...

Lord Digby Jones has been branded as “narrow minded and naive” by a Whitehall trade union in response to his...

Calls for a radical shake up of Royal Mail are less likely to lead to job cuts as the government...

The takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB must not result in thousands of compulsory redundancies, unions have warned.Lloyds TSB yesterday...

Initiatives aimed at reducing administrative burdens on employers have failed, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).The Administrative Burdens Reduction...

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber has called on controversial new business secretary Peter Mandelson to focus on protecting jobs.Mandelson, who...

Manufacturing HR directors have backed a government shake-up to boost the sector’s image at a time when job losses and...