Employee relations

What does the Information and Consultation Directive mean for Europe, and what can the UK learn from the experiences of its European neighbours, ask Nick Thorpe and Richard Kenyon

Employees at struggling airline caterer Gate Gourmet will vote today on whether to take deep cuts in wages and lose benefits to keep their jobs.

Trade unions are lobbying for a shorter working week, just days ahead of an EU meeting over the UK opt-out of the Working Time Directive (WTD).

Union leaders at the BBC will meet today to decide whether to accept a deal on job losses or make a new threat of strike action

Kevin White, HR director at the Department of Work and Pensions, has faced some difficult times over the past few years. He talks exclusively to Mike Berry about those challenges.

The head of HR at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted to making mistakes during last year's bitter pay dispute with the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union.

More than two-thirds (69%) of HR people think the statutory grievance procedures introduced last year fail to support strategic or business goals.

The number of applications to employment tribunals fell by a quarter in 2004, but experts have warned that the number of cases is likely to rise in the next few years.

An internal dispute over employment rights is threatening to escalate after staff working for a London council claimed their right...

A man has won £10,000 damages after his manager made a homophobic comment about him to a colleague.

HSBC has denied union claims that any of its branches or call centres closed today

Unions at the BBC have called off a strike planned for next week after all-night negotiations.

Thousands of HSBC employees around the UK will walk out today for a 24-hour strike in a dispute over pay.

A pay rise for doctors in military service still leaves them well short of the earnings on offer to civilian medical staff.

The CBI has said that the union modernisation fund must have water-tight safeguards to prevent "taxpayers' money being abused by unscrupulous unions".