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1. Case study: redundancy selection procedure and pregnancy
   An employment tribunal has found that an employer discriminated against a male employee when a woman on maternity leave was given preferential treatment in a redundancy scoring exercise. The case of De Belin v Eversheds Legal Services Ltd is an interestin
   date: 21 Jul 2010
2. Sickness absence down again in manufacturing
   Manufacturing employers gained on average one extra day of work per employee in 2009 as industry saw sickness absence fall for a third successive year.
   date: 5 Jul 2010
3. Industry sees third drop in sickness absence
   Manufacturing employers gained, on average, one extra day of work per employee in 2009 as industry saw sickness absence fall for a third successive year.
   date: 5 Jul 2010
4. Front-line services feeling the pressure
   The NHS is supposed to be protected from the worst of the cuts being implemented by the Government but, according to the British Medical Association (BMA), it is already feeling the pain.
   date: 1 Jul 2010
5. Public sector job numbers set to crash
   “If anyone working in the public sector hadn’t got the message so far, it will have hit home today.
   date: 24 Jun 2010
6. CBI wants it made harder to call strikes
   Unions would find it much more difficult to resort to industrial action if a package of suggestions put forward this week by the CBI is taken up by the Government.
   date: 22 Jun 2010
7. Career transition support essential
   Both employers and employees across the UK are calling for career transition services, such as outplacement, to be a compulsory part of all redundancies according to new research from Hays, the recruitment firm.
   date: 21 Jun 2010
8. Between Northern Rock and a hard place
   With up to 650 Northern Rock staff at risk of redundancy, the regional development agency (RDA) One North East has promised to put in place and lead a response group of employment and training experts.
   date: 9 Jun 2010
9. Dangerous levels of stress need new solutions
   This recession has set up dangerous new levels of work-related stress for which HR staff and line management may be unprepared, the International Stress Management Association (ISMA) warned last week.
   date: 2 Jun 2010
10. Coalition faces dreadful employment figures
    All may now be sweetness and light in Downing Street but the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has warned that the new coalition faces immediate tests on the employment front.
    date: 14 May 2010
11. The requirement to consult on collective redundancies
    There have been a number of interesting decisions in the past few months on the employer’s duties to consult on collective redundancies. Sam Whitaker, a Counsel with Shearman & Sterling LLP, reports.
    date: 4 May 2010
12. Share the jobs? — not such a foolish idea
    There has always seemed something of a mismatch between high levels of unemployment and the UK having a workforce putting in some of the longest hours in Europe, so why not share the jobs around more evenly?
    date: 23 Apr 2010
13. Job satisfaction crashes in public sector
    Things will get worse for public sector workers before they get better, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) forecast this week.
    date: 21 Apr 2010
14. MPs give Kraft a kicking
    Kraft acted both irresponsibly and unwisely in its handling of the Somerdale factory which has damaged its UK reputation and has soured its relationship with Cadbury employees.
    date: 7 Apr 2010
15. Read it and weep, Gordon
    Just as "bigger than Wales" has come to be the standard measure for things like icebergs, so "earns more than the Prime Minister" is rapidly becoming the way to indicate that a salary is too high and probably unearned.
    date: 6 Apr 2010
16. Job scene more resilient during recession
    Employment protections introduced since 1997 have provided extra support for the low-paid and working parents without damaging the UK’s economic competitiveness, according to a new TUC Touchstone pamphlet published this week.
    date: 1 Apr 2010
17. Paying the price for motherhood
    Employers must not use the economic crisis to penalise working mothers, a motion put by the UK’s largest public sector union to the TUC Women’s Conference in Eastbourne this week warns.
    date: 11 Mar 2010