Employment law

A coaching scheme for pregnant workers helped law firm Clifford Chance improve its maternity practices and hang on to some of its most talented staff. Lucy Freeman reports.

Later this year, the work permit scheme will be abolished and replaced by Tier 2 of the new points-based immigration system....

A landmark challenge to scrap the compulsory retirement age for employees will now be heard in less than a month,...

New maternity leave guidance in relation to non-cash benefits has been published by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs department.
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The fight for greater workers’ rights will go on despite the recent raft of legislative announcements, a key union figure...

Almost 70% of new mothers are anxious about returning to work after maternity leave, according to a recent survey carried...

Powertec, one of the United Kingdom’s leading providers of healthcare software, today announced the launch of Optimize-Roster, a new rostering...

Communications giant O2 has sacked at least six workers who used staff discounts to buy Apple iPhones and sold them...

The points-based immigration system has created an overwhelming burden on employers, who are struggling to understand and comply with the...

As an experienced HR professional who has not worked full time for 19 years, I read your article ‘Career fear...

Oyarce v Cheshire County Council The Court of Appeal decided, unanimously, that the reverse burden of proof which applies to...

I have just taken over as HR manager at a food company which hires lots of casual and seasonal workers...

Signing up for the National Dismissal Register could leave employers open to all sorts of claims.

After Gordon Brown recently announced his work-life balance agenda, flexible working will soon be widely available to as many as...

HR may have escaped the swathe of redundancies in the City, but it still has to manage the fall-out. Here's how to turn bad news into an opportunity.