Opinion

Our irascible insider on... the super-union

No HR professional would like to be in Andy Cook's shoes right now. Little did he know that just weeks after taking on his new job as HR director of airline caterer Gate Gourmet, he would be handling one of the highest-profile industrial disputes in years

The ‘partnership’ between unions and employers can be tentative at the best of times, but should we now dismiss talk...

The steady spread of human resource management can help to explain why the British union movement is in such a crisis

British Airways (BA) must dread the summer. It seems that every year BA has an industrial dispute of one type or another. Each year the cause is different and each year BA says it has solved the problem and it won't happen again. What is not clear this time round is exactly what the problem is.

What an excellent summer. I know the economic conditions are tough in many sectors. Yet there are butterflies in my...

Outsourcing absence management does not lead to 'forgotten' staff

The government's plan to change the work permit system from 50 entry routes to a five-tiered, points-based system is a laudable attempt to finally bring simplicity to an over-complex process

UK workplaces have rarely enjoyed such placid employment relations as they do today. Is this new-found calm here to stay?

With the ever-increasing speed of technology, falling communication costs and the ease with which we can now commute across national borders, our level of interest in outsourcing has started to reach new heights

Four weeks in to the recruitment process, this is turning into one of the most dispiriting selection exercises... ever

Developing people is critical to performance improvement. We say this all the time. In fact, we might as well stick...

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) is quite simply the most authoritative statement on life at work in the UK...

Yet again, pensions are in the news. The government proposes introducing consultation obligations for both occupational and personal pension schemes....

It is unarguable that trade unions no longer have the same influence or profile as they did in those antagonistic,...