Employee relations

A leading civil service HR director has warned of difficult times ahead for the public sector as it faces up...

Last year 144 trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights, while more than 800 suffered beatings or torture, according...

The appointment of a life-long trade unionist as the new chair of conciliation service Acas has been welcomed by employers.Ed...

DRAMA AND TRAININGI remain unconvinced by the use of drama as a training tool that offers more than just entertainment...

The annual TUC Congress in Brighton last week was a mine of information as speak­ers from unions debated topics as...

The controversial Agency Workers Directive (AWD) has been hanging over the British workplace for almost all of the new millennium...

Regular rail commuters will not be surprised to learn that the rail regulator’s report reveals that almost 400,000 passengers face...

Guru loves a trip to the seaside, so it is lucky for him that the trade unions all tend to...

The Conservative Party has again called on the government to scrap the controversial Union Modernisation Fund.Prime minister Gordon Brown handed...

Dave Prentis, general secretary of public services union Unison has been elected as the next TUC president. Prentis was elected...

A City bank is being sued for a record £10m for race discrimination after an employee claimed he was sacked...

Construction unions have finally signed an industrial relations deal for the London 2012 Olympic Games.Negotiations between the three main unions...

Q What is corporate social networking?
A There should be a clear distinction between ‘corporate social networking’, which is useful...

Macmillan Publishers has been fined £55,000 for failing to comply with the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 (ICE...

With the growing popularity of internet networking sites such as Facebook, companies are leaving themselves open to legal action.As with...