Employee relations

UK employers are losing £69m a year by failing to tackle workplace disputes, research claims.

Conciliation service Acas has launched a DVD designed to guide employers and individuals through the employment tribunal process.

Many workers are still not comfortable about sharing bad news with their managers, although the situation is improving, according to a survey of 900,000 employees

Half of workers say their employers dont communicate well, and 60% of them plan to jump ship

The planned strike at Morrisons has been averted at the last minute

A meeting of workers sacked in a dispute with Gate Gourmet last night overwhelmingly voted to accept a deal

The internet is helping the trade union movement transform the way it recruits and deals with its members, according to a new research paper

Morrisons representatives will sit down with the GMB and T&G unions today in talks to avert a national strike over the supermarket's plam to close distribution depots and cut up to 2,500 jobs

The construction of Heathrow's terminal five could be delayed if strike action by steelworkers goes ahead

Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) staff have begun a 48-hour strike in a dispute about new contracts

An agreement has been reached between the T&G union and management of the catering firm Gate Gourmet

The Gate Gourmet dispute at Heathrow airport inflamed union passions. But it also highlighted concerns about the need, as they...

As the unions bring the Gate Gourmet dispute to the Labour party conference, the company's managing director speaks out

A former barman at the Hilton Waldorf hotel in London has had his claim of constructive dismissal through racial discrimination thrown out by an employment tribunal

Talks aimed at averting a series of walkouts by train drivers at a leading rail operator are to be held this week.