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    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Family-friendly working

    Scottish shopworkers support Bill to ban Christmas working

    by dan thomas 31 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 31 Jul 2006

    An overwhelming majority of Scottish shopworkers support a new Bill that aims to ban large stores from opening on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, according to retail union Usdaw

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Payroll

    Debenhams plans to close its final salary pension scheme to new members

    by dan thomas 31 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 31 Jul 2006

    Debenhams is planning to close its £500m defined benefit scheme to new members and stop existing members from building further benefits.

    • Latest News
    • HR practice
    • Physical environment

    Staff with green habits plant shoots of enlightenment in UK workplaces

    by dan thomas 31 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 31 Jul 2006

    Environmentally friendly workers encourage good habits at work.

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Pressure mounts on government to pay £15bn in compensation to workers who lost occupational pensions

    by dan thomas 31 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 31 Jul 2006

    An influential group of MPs has criticised the government for refusing to pay up to £15bn in compensation to workers who lost their pensions.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    Hays under investigation by Office of Fair Trading for price fixing

    by dan thomas 28 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 28 Jul 2006

    Recruitment giant Hays is at the centre of an investigation into a price-fixing cartel in the construction sector, it emerged today

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Equal pay

    Gay men paid much lower salaries than their heterosexual colleagues

    by dan thomas 28 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 28 Jul 2006

    Gay men face considerably lower wages than their heterosexual colleagues and are less likely to be in work, research reveals

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Data protection

    Jail threat for senior executives who flout data protection laws

    by dan thomas 28 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 28 Jul 2006

    Imprisonment and unlimited fines added to arsenal of weapons available in data protection cases.

    • Employee relations
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    • Industrial action / strikes

    Landmark pay agreement averts strike at Royal Mail

    by dan thomas 27 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 27 Jul 2006

    Strike action at the Royal Mail has been “narrowly avoided” after the organisation brokered a landmark agreement with the Communication Workers Union (CWU)

    • Employee relations
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Former Kent distribution staff take legal action against Morrisons supermarket over redundancy pay

    by dan thomas 27 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 27 Jul 2006

    Kent tribunal to hear redundancy pay claims of former Morrisons distribution staff.

    • Employee relations
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Breakthrough on railways as employers and unions find common ground

    by dan thomas 27 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 27 Jul 2006

    RMT agrees to suspend Central Trains strike.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Job creation and losses

    Cumbrian Newspapers faces walkout over threat to axe final salary pension scheme

    by dan thomas 27 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 27 Jul 2006

    North West newspaper group is latest in long list of final salary scheme deserters.

    • Employee relations
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    BMIBaby pilots to vote on strike action over pay

    by dan thomas 26 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 26 Jul 2006

    Pilots at low-cost airline BMIBaby are to be balloted on strike action in a row over pay, threatening travel chaos at airports around the August bank holiday

    • Business performance
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Investors in People status delivers bottom line benefits

    by dan thomas 26 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 26 Jul 2006

    London's Investors in People support agency defends the organisation against suggestions that it does not deliver commercial benefit

    • Acas
    • Employee relations
    • Employment law

    Acas confirms rise in number of workplace disputes

    by dan thomas 26 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 26 Jul 2006

    The Acas annual report shows that more than 900,000 callers turned to it for help last year

    • Business performance
    • Latest News
    • Education - further and higher

    Employers call for schools to teach Chinese

    by dan thomas 25 Jul 2006
    by dan thomas 25 Jul 2006

    To take advantage of the booming market in trade with China schools and universities must be encouraged to add Chinese language and cultural studies to the curriculum, employers warn

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