TUC general secretary Brendan Barber has labelled business chiefs who criticised the government for allowing public sector workers to claim their pensions at 60 as "hypocrites"
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Employers that exclude new recruits from final salary pension schemes and offer inferior schemes instead could be sitting on a legal 'volcano', experts have warned
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Personnel Today's Michael Millar is returning to Iraq to look at the contribution the UK's reserve forces are making in the ongoing effort to pacify the insurgency and stabilise the country
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MPs will vote tomorrow in the House of Commons on whether to ban smoking completely in public places
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NHS nurses more inclined to moan about money and conditions.
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Walkers’ crisp handout rubs salt and vinegar in wounds of redundant staff
by Mike Berryby Mike BerryRedundant staff upset by free crisps gesture.
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Oracle likely to cut jobs at latest software firm acquisition.
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Trade and industry secretary Alan Johnson has announced the re-appointment of three commissioners to the Equal Opportunities Commission.
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Unions have called a meeting with police officials to raise concerns about the proposed mergers of forces across England and Wales.
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The European Commission has called for EU members to open up their jobs markets to workers from Europe's former-communist states.
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Car manufacturer cuts West Midland workforce after transferring production of Freelander model to Merseyside.
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Cleaners at the Houses of Parliament have won their high-profile campaign for a living wage.
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Amicus members employed in the papermaking industry have voted by a big majority in favour of a new pay agreement
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GMB and other union members working for Laing O'Rourke on the Terminal 5 project at Heathrow have settled their bonus pay dispute.
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A pilot project in Glasgow aims to get residents off incapacity benefit by searching the streets for people who could be at work and encouraging them to look for jobs.