Economics, government & business

People who give up work to care for relatives or friends are missing out on benefits worth nearly £750m.

British Airways is to cut nearly 600 management jobs by March 2008.

The introducton of the Agenda for Change programme in the NHS has led to an equal pay claims rush by nurses.

The TUC has recommended that the government continues its annual review of the National Minimum Wage.

Nine out of ten UK employers now feel they have a social responsibility to educate staff about their retirement provision, according to a newly-published audit of FTSE 350 firms

Sir Digby Jones is angry. He was recently asked by trade and industry secretary, Alan Johnson, to get the CBI involved in implementing 67 promises the government made to unions at the so-called Warwick Agreement.

The director-general of the CBI has accused the government of trying to form a social partnership between ministers, unions and business that would push workplaces back to the 1970s.

The idea that women who return to part-time work after breaks in employment generally find themselves over-qualified for their role is a myth.

Medium-sized businesses will lead recruitment activity going into 2006

Disadvantaged young people in Britain should be offered lessons in anger management and how to wake up on time, a government report recommends

After five years at the top, builders no longer head the UK pay award league table, latest figures show

David Blunkett, who recently resigned as work and pensions secretary, is to go back to university to become a lecturer

Domino's Pizza is launching a major recruitment drive to fill up to 2,000 temporary part-time positions created to help the stores cope with the upsurge of pizza orders expected over Christmas

Cleaners fighting for better pay and conditions at the Houses of Parliament have won the backing of an international network of unions.

“The very survival of the welfare state depends on more people [being] in work,” employment minister Margaret Hodge has told European health experts