Employee relations

Half of bosses believe employment tribunals are biased towards employees, research has revealed. HR advisory company Consult GEE found that...

UK councils spent more than £1,546m on agency and temporary staff in 2005-06, according to figures from the GMB union....

Commons leader Jack Straw has spoken out on yet another weighty employment issue – tinsel. Having backed the right of...

The CBI has welcomed the government’s decision to review the employment tribunal system. John Cridland, deputy director-general of the CBI,...

Walsall Council has agreed a settlement totalling £584,000 with a former council whistleblower. Peter Francis, a former head of programme...

The government has announced a root-and-branch review of systems for resolving disputes in the workplace.
Trade and industry secretary Alistair...

The TUC has today launched a ‘secret santa’ generator to help keep the Christmas spirit alive at work.
Employers organising...

A strike at a Lancashire university has been called off after unions and management reached agreement about contracts for lecturers....

Supplies to branches of frozen food chain Iceland could be hit over Christmas by a strike over pay, a union...

Three names have been put forward for the new ‘super-union‘ to be formed by a merger by Amicus and the...

Alf Turner at the CIPD conference in Harrogate was guilty of overstating his case when he attacked what he called...

Relationships between employers and employees in many British workplaces resemble a marriage under stress, characterised by poor communications and low...

Most business leaders are “considerate communicators”, but “controlling communicators” come a close second, according to research by workplace consultancy CHA....

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of employment) regulations, known as TUPE, govern the transfer of an undertaking (that’s a business...

A war of words has erupted at the AA over claims that road patrol staff have been banned from taking...