HR departments may wish to offer support and advice to employees feeling they are having to work unpaid hours, following comments made by the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
Paul Sellers, a policy adviser at the TUC, said such employees needed to know their rights.
"Your rights include the right to a short break in the day. If [...]

Calls have been made for tighter discrimination legislation in the UK, after it was revealed that 92 per cent of the British public believed that admitting to having a mental health illness would damage someone’s career.
According to the Time To Change report, as such conditions become more common amid the recession people may find it [...]

The median rise in pay for UK workers stands at only one per cent, new research has found, which could lead to a fall in motivation among employees.
According to the Incomes Data Services, this is the lowest median pay settlement since the survey’s electronic records began and is believed to have been caused by a [...]

The government has been urged by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) to use a quarter of its £500 million recruitment stimulus to subsidise 50,000 new apprenticeships for young people.
Richard Lambert, director-general for the CBI, said that young people in the UK were increasingly likely to have difficulties finding employment when they leave education, due [...]

Female workers in the UK are weathering the storm of the recession more effectively than their male counterparts, new research has revealed.
According to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), labour turnover for women currently stands at a five-year low of 4.3 per cent, in contrast with 4.8 per cent among men.
It is believed this trend has [...]

Pizza Hut has defended the quality of its HR department, after it was fined for the recruitment of illegal workers.
The Italian eatery chain was found to have an illegal worker employed at both its Reading and Hounslow outlets in west London and was fined £5,000 for each incident.
And figures from the UK Border Agency reveal [...]

Despite economy, Cornerstone achieves record-level success in first half of 2009, announces strategic investments across the company to ready growth into 2010.

More UK workers are opting to put off their plans for retirement amid the recession, a new study has revealed.
According to MGM Advantage, some 1.85 million people have put off plans to leave the workplace once they reach pension age, with one in three workers on the cusp of retirement admitting they are likely to [...]