Yesterday the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched proposals for a fundamental change in parental leave, giving mothers and fathers greater support in bringing up children.
The Commission says that the changes will help tackle the gender pay-gap, bring greater support and social benefits to parents and children, and show modern ways of working are better [...]

Rising public outrage at employers has led to kidnappings, marches and strikes in France – a country with a long tradition of labor unrest. Yesterday, workers at a Caterpillar factory in Grenoble held four managers hostage and demanded further talks over redundancy measures.
The head of human resources, the factory director and two other managers had [...]

Hay fever could be costing British businesses up to £7.1 billion a year as research reveals over a third of sufferers cannot concentrate due to the condition.
The research, commissioned by Kleenex, also revealed that 39 per cent of people questioned were only able to function at 63 per cent of their usual productivity levels when [...]

Despite the recession, over two thirds of employers are planning to offer pay rises this year in a bid to retain talent.
That is according to research conducted by talent management firm Ochre House, which revealed that 67 per cent of firms questioned were going to be incentivising staff with monetary gains.
The survey also [...]

New proposals could lead to increased paternity pay and an extension to the time fathers can take as “parental leave".
The plan proposed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is aimed at helping support both parents and their children.
Under the plan, the amount of statutory paternity leave would increase from two to eight weeks [...]

Employers looking to recruit staff should not rely solely on social networking sites when deciding who to take on.
That is the advice issued by Dan Hawes, co-founder of the Graduate Recruitment Bureau, who suggested thatinformation stored on sites such as Twitter and Facebook was not that "reliable".
Mr Hawes recommended that recruiters should give prospective candidates [...]

New research has revealed that just a third of managers and workers in senior positions are women.
That is according to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, which has also revealed that there is a big discrepancy between the numbers of occupational areas that women work in, compared to their male counterparts.
The Women [...]

The national minimum wage should be extended to 18-year-olds and apprentices as the recession hits younger workers hard.
That is the view of Trades Union Congress (TUC) assistant general secretary, Kay Carberry, who will be calling on the government to increase pay for the young at its Young Members Conference, starting today (March 27th).
Ms [...]

Employers should be wary of using the recession as an excuse for making older members of the workforce redundant.
That is the warning from Nicola Brewer, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
She also said that those companies which held onto older workers with more experience would be better equipped to weather [...]

Freezing employees’ salaries will make the recession worse as it will discourage households from spending.
That is according to TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, who has said that many employees have already agreed to modest or no pay rises in a bid to save their jobs.
He warned, however, against "a generalised wage freeze across [...]