Trade unions

Deliveroo signs deal with union GMB to cover self-employed riders
Food delivery business Deliveroo has agreed a recognition deal with trade union GMB covering the company’s 90,000 drivers and riders. The GMB described the agreement as “historic” and said that…

Post Office staff strike over below-inflation pay offer
Post Office workers are on strike today (3 May) after recieving a pay offer that falls below the cost of living, according to a union.

Union accuses easyJet of corporate bullying over staff sickness
High sickness absence rates has led to cancelled flights and a row with the pilots’ union at budget airline easyJet.
Information & consultation

Managing change for HR: five top tips for a smooth transition
Many HR professionals find that employees resist the change and, as a result, change is slow to embed or it does not embed at all. Bar Huberman provides some change management tips

P&O Ferries: Grant Shapps’ minimum wage plan dismissed
The government’s plan to ask UK ports to block ferries from docking if they do no pay crews the UK minimum wage would not succeed, the docks industry has stated.

P&O to pay off workers, claims redundancies were lawful
P&O Ferries has claimed it did not break the law by making 800 staff redundant without consultation or warning last week.
Employee engagement

Reimagining employee engagement (webinar)
This XpertHR webinar will discuss the growing importance of employee engagement in the new world of work.

Youth collective to inform Body Shop strategy
The Body Shop has announced it will invite a ‘youth collective’ to present ideas and opinions to the retailer’s executive leadership team.

Hybrid working: executives returning to office less than employees
As hybrid working is frowned upon by Jacon Rees-Mogg, research suggests executives spend more time working from home than the employees they are urging to return to the office.
Industrial action & strikes

Post Office staff strike over below-inflation pay offer
Post Office workers are on strike today (3 May) after recieving a pay offer that falls below the cost of living, according to a union.

Network Rail: unions angered by ‘work harder at school’ comment
A Network Rail regional director of communications has told rail workers about to take part in a national strike ballot they ‘should have probably worked harder at school’. Nicky Hughes…

Union announces ballot for ‘biggest rail strike’
More than 40,000 workers at Network Rail and 15 train operating companies are to be balloted for strike action in what the RMT union has called “potentially the biggest rail…
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