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The latest Report on Jobs by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and KPMG has shown that recruitment consultants have reported a rise in permanent staff placements for the third month in succession during March, albeit at a slower pace than February’s nine-month high.
Tags: Agency Workers Regulations, Temporary Workers, Permanent Employees, Agency Staff, Starting Salaries, Edinburgh Employment Lawyers, Employment Solicitors Edinburgh
The falling proportion of national output that goes on wages has meant that UK workers today are taking home £60bn a year less (in today's money) than workers did 30 years ago, according to a new report published by the TUC.
Tags: Collective Bargaining, Salary Increase, Pay Rises, Employment Law Advice Edinburgh, Employment Lawyers Edinburgh, Terms And Conditions Of Employment
New figures from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) shows that small businesses will look to shed staff in the first three months of 2012, as it warns that the Government needs to be bolder in its changes to existing employment law to incentivise employment.
Tags: Employment Law Reform, Maternity Rights, Paternity Rights, Employment Tribunal, Flexible Working, Employment Law Advice Kirkcaldy, Employment Lawyers Kirkcaldy
A recent survey by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) has found that more people than ever are being signed off with stress.
Tags: Stress At Work, Disability Discrimination, Managing Absence, Stress At Work Advice Edinburgh, Stress At Work Advice Lawyers Edinburgh
Managers and senior officials work the longest total hours of any major occupational group, but much of it is unpaid overtime, a new report by the Office for National Statistics on hours worked has shown.
Tags: Working Time, Hours Of Work, Unpaid Overtime, Working Time Advice Edinburgh, Working Time Advice Lawyers Edinburgh
The most radical reform to the employment law system for decades has been outlined by Business Secretary Vince Cable as part of the Government’s plan for growth.
Tags: Employment Law Reform, Employment Tribunal, Redundancy, Protected Conversations, Compromise Agreements, Employment Law Advice Edinburgh
Businesses have been called upon by ministers to help tackle employment related law, bureaucracy and red tape in the latest phase of the Employment Law Review.
Tags: Employment Law Reform, Collective Redundancies, National Minimum Wage, Redundancy Advice Lawyers Edinburgh, Redundancy Advice Edinburgh
Recent research has found that over 75% of office workers in the UK wouldn't report malpractice in their workplace. The research also found that 69% of respondents did not know that whistleblowing legislation existed to protect them if they were to make a qualifying disclosure of wrongdoing.
Tags: Whistleblowing, Employee Protection, Whistleblowing Advice Edinburgh, Whistleblowing Advice Lawyers Edinburgh
Despite the historical decline in membership levels, trade unions are still a valuable and powerful force in today's workplaces according to a new paper commissioned by Acas.
Tags: Trade unions, Industrial Relations, Employee relations, Employee relations advice Falkirk, Employee relations advice lawyers Falkirk
The power of social media to rapidly organise large groups of people presents new challenges for industrial relations as well as public order.
Tags: Employee relations, Industrial Relations, Social media in the workplace, Employee relations advice Edinburgh, Employee relations advice lawyers Edinburgh
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation's (REC) response to the Government's ‘Modern Workplaces’ consultation has highlighted the importance of flexible work to the economy, and the role that recruiters and the business community must play in building a modern workforce.
Tags: Flexible Working, Parental leave, Working time regulations, Flexible Working Advice Edinburgh, Flexible Working Advice Lawyers Edinburgh
The CBI has called on the Government to fundamentally rethink its approach to employment law in order to bolster workplace flexibility and foster better employment relations.
Tags: employment law advice lawyers falkirk, employment law advice falkirk, employment relationship, employment law review
One in three UK workers admit to lying to take time off work, mainly because they’re disillusioned with their jobs, according to research commissioned by PwC on attitudes to absence.
Tags: absence management, Flexible Working, Employment Law Advice Edinburgh, employment law edinburgh
There was an increase in the number of workers killed in Britain last year, according to new official figures.
Tags: employment rights at work, health and safety, health and safety at work, health and safety advice lawyers edinburgh
Following a speech by Vince Cable at the GMB union’s conference, which suggested the Government might legislate to restrict strike action if industrial unrest continues to escalate, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has urged Government to build public sector leadership and management skills and improve communication and consultation to help stave off the worst effects of strike action to come.
Tags: Industrial Action Advice Lawyers Edinburgh, Industrial Action Advice Edinburgh, Industrial Action, Employment Law Reform
Working Families, the work-life balance organisation, has published new research on the work and family lives of fathers, which reveals that flexible working can offer real benefits to working fathers.
Tags: Flexible Working, flexible working advice lawyers linlithgow, flexible working advice linlithgow
A new analysis of the economics of employment regulation claims that the opposition of much of the business lobby to many employment rights betrays an underlying bias against employment regulation which at times flies in the face of economic evidence.
Tags: Employment Tribunal Advice Lawyers Edinburgh, Employment Tribunal Advice Edinburgh, Employment Tribunals, Employment Law Reform
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is concerned that Government plans to extend flexible working and introduce changes to parental leave, at a time when it has committed to cutting red tape, will hit small businesses hard.
Tags: Flexible Working, Parental leave, Employment Law Reform, flexible working advice lawyers linlithgow, flexible working advice linlithgow
Friday, 13 April 2012
Category Employment Law
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