Economics, government & business

More than half of employers fail to address dead wood in their organisations, according to new research.The survey of 400...

IT experts have warned that the government may be over-extending itself on the IT front with its plans for pensions.

Members of the Scottish Parliament are furious at news that 16 senior civil servants in the Scottish Executive are to share a ‘golden goodbye’ totalling £1.8m on top of their pensions

The government has saved £4.7bn so far by implementing the recommendations of the Gershon efficiency review, chancellor Gordon Brown announced on Monday

Property assets to be sold off to fund equal pay initiative in Edinburgh.

The UK government will try to force a solution to the on-going saga of the Working Time Directive (WTD) before its EU presidency comes to an end on 31 December

Pensions minister Stephen Timms has challenged the pensions industry spell out how an industry-led alternative to Lord Turner's National Pensions Savings Scheme would work

Lord Turner, head of the Pensions Commission, has called on employers to get involved in a sensible debate over compulsory pension payments for staff, instead of simply branding it as unacceptable

People reporting has been pushed further down the corporate agenda following the government's decision to scrap operating and financial reviews (OFRs), senior HR professionals have warned

Prime minister Tony Blair has urged business leaders in the UK to get more involved in developing the skills of young people

The EEF is the only employers' body to welcome measures that would force companies to pay into a retirement fund for staff

Chancellor Gordon Brown used the CBI conference in London last week to denounce excessive regulatory red tape in business, calling it "outdated" and saying he favoured a more risk-based approach

Britain's best-paid public sector workers received average pay rises of 13% last year – more than five times the rate of inflation, according to research

MPs have requested a 22% pay increase, ten times the rate of inflation, according to newspaper reports

Ballot papers for a two-day nationwide strike over government job cuts in the Department for Work and Pensions were sent out today to more than 90,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union.