Employee relations

Case round-up: correction

A New York jury has awarded a banker £15m for sex discrimination after a male colleague told her she was too "old and ugly and she can't do the job".

Strike action by 170 guards at Merseyrail seeking a 35-hour week has brought rail traffic on the region's network to a complete standstill.

Notions that the public sector is full of 'bowler hats and bureaucrats' are well wide of the mark, according to a report from the TUC.

Retail union Usdaw is backing Labour's New Deal programme because, it says, it has put a million people back into work and created job opportunities for shop workers in the UK.

Kevin Curran has quit as general secretary of the GMB union three weeks after being suspended from its executive committee.

Only a quarter of FTSE and public sector senior executives believe staff think that their ideas are valued, according to a recent survey.

Unions representing about 500,000 civil servants are to submit a joint pay claim for the first time.

Sara Bean reports from the RCN Society of Occupational Health conference, Telford International Centre, Telford, 23-24 November

Conciliation service Acas is urging companies to see the Information and Consultation Regulations which came into force today as an opportunity to improve the workplace.

New rules on informing and consulting employees about major business decisions will have little impact, because most companies are already involving workers, according to the CBI chief.

Nearly three-quarters of employees are unaware of their new rights to be consulted over major changes in the workplace.

Even people, like the Prince of Wales, who are trained to deal with difficult situations can display the wrong body language when under pressure and ruin the message they hope to convey. Anna Burges-Lumsden reports on the importance of non-verbal cues.

The mandatory disciplinary and grievance procedures for employers and employees were introduced six months ago. The aim was to set in stone guidelines for disciplining employees and complaining about employers. But, asks James Elwes, have the procedures worked?

The government and trade unions in the Netherlands have reached an agreement on public sector workplace reforms after months of unrest