Employment Law Edinburgh News

The Government is being urged to re-invigorate its efforts to tackle sickness absence and implement the recommendations of the Frost/Black Review as a matter of urgency, amidst new evidence that the long term downward trend in absence rates has plateaued.

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The Recruitment and Employment Confederation has recently carried out a poll of its members to find out more about the impact of the Agency Worker Regulations.

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Despite signs that economic growth has resumed in some regions, the global employment situation is alarming and shows no sign of recovery in the near future, says the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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Britain’s embattled business community enters 2012 with major concerns about striking a healthy work/life balance for its workforce, according to new research from Group Risk Development (GRiD), the trade body for the group risk industry.

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MEPs are calling for EU legislation to be put in place if voluntary measures fail to boost the number of women in senior positions. They believe that women should make up 30% of top management in the largest listed EU companies by 2015 and 40% by 2020.

 

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Four fifths of companies in the UK are now offering their staff flexible working, according to new research amongst 4000 UK companies commissioned by workplace provider Regus. However, the research highlights that trust remains a major hurdle for many companies: 38% of UK businesses only offer this privilege to senior staff.

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Business will be freed from the burden of red tape under a package of sweeping reforms to regulation, the UK Government has announced.

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A new disclosure scheme to improve the protection of Scotland's most vulnerable groups is now in operation.

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The Government has called for a major review of the sickness absence system in Great Britain in order to help combat the staggering £100 billion that working age ill health costs the economy every year.

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A third (35.4%) of Scottish workers are unhappy in their current job, and would not recommend their employer (34.2%).  

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The Institute of Directors (IoD) has put forward two dozen policy changes over ten areas of Government policy which could transform growth prospects at little or no cost to the taxpayer, including a number that would directly impact on employment law.

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