Four in five employees lack confidence about the job market as the number of people out of work is predicted...
Employment law
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South West Trains (SWT) has been accused of attempting to conceal the true extent of its planned job cuts, according...
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The jobs cull at engineering firm Renishaw will serve as a stark reminder to HR to warn staff that pay...
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Plans to increase redundancy pay to help workers laid off because of the recession would only result in company closures...
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More firms have announced job losses totalling hundreds of workers as the recession continues to hit employers in all sectors...
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A black Royal Navy officer is claiming he suffered racial discrimination after being nicknamed “Robert Mugabe”, an employment tribunal heard...
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An immigration officer was suspended from work because she took too much time off for fertility treatment, a tribunal heard...
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Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance: What the changes mean for HR
by Guy Sheppardby Guy SheppardAcas’s new workplace problem-solving process, a less prescriptive approach to dealing with grievance and disciplinary cases, comes into force on...
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The Baby P care chief has begun legal action against children’s secretary Ed Balls over the part he played in...
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Two inventors shared compensation of £1.5m after a recent High Court ruling recognised their roles in inventing a patented health...
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A partly-paralysed man is suing MI5 after his application for a job tracking suspects was rejected.Sajad Suleman could not move...
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A manufacturing body has urged employers to better assess health risks in the workplace after newly-published figures showed that 7,000 people...
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Dismissing 850 or so agency workers was never going to be a PR victory for BMW management. But even they...
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Baby P case ex social services chief takes Haringey Council to Tribunal over dismissal
by Guy Loganby Guy LoganThe former children’s services chief who was fired over the Baby P case has lodged an employment tribunal claim against...
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Recent figures show a sharp rise in claims against ex-employees taking confidential information from their previous employers.