Employment law

In the past, OH practitioners may not have been involved in situations where employees are showing problems with attention or hyperactivity, but disability law could change all that, say Linda Goldman and Joan Lewis.

Sharon Coleman has won the initial stages of a landmark legal case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which...

Eight in 10 bosses are unprepared for the new workplace killing law which comes into force in just over two...

The maximum compensation award for unfair dismissals has seen a 473% increase over the past decade, according to employment law...

Miss N Eweida v British Airways Plc FACTS Miss Eweida, a practising Christian, has worked for British Airways (BA) as...

We need to close down our Guildford office and move to Reading. There are mobility clauses in the contracts of...

Given the recent press speculation about the ‘Spyware’ software favoured by Microsoft in the US, what are the implications of...

When high earners, such as former Norther Rock boss Adam Applegarth, recieve huge pay-ffs for failing to succeed, what can human resources do to manage everyone else's expectations? Virginia Matthews reports.

Health and safety legislation, absence strategies and working time regulations

In the current media frenzy over the threat of a recession, human resources (HR) must brace itself for redundancies in...

With the likelihood of lean times ahead we’re starting to see the inevitable news headlines describing employee misery at the...

Will EMI's recent announcement of 2,000 redundancies land the record label in court?

Prime minister Gordon Brown has been accused of “hypocrisy” over his India visit, as the government plays for time in...

What do the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Bhopal chemical blast, and the Chernobyl nuclear explosion have in common? Apart...

News and analysis in the human resources sector including: if there is going to be a recession, how will it...