Employment Law Edinburgh News

In its latest Work Audit report, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has looked at the impact of the jobs recession that began in 2008 on employers, workers and the economy as a whole.

Tags: Redundancy, Job Losses, Pay Increases, Pay Freeze, Redundancy Advice Edinburgh, Redundancy Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

Commenting on the government’s call for evidence on collective redundancy, John Longworth, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), has said that the time has come for reform in this area of employment law.

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The first quarter of 2012 will be the most difficult quarter for the jobs market since the recession, as the number of private sector firms surveyed planning to make redundancies increases.

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UK middle managers are feeling the squeeze as a result of the economic downturn, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) quarterly Employee Outlook survey of 2,000 employees.

Tags: Redundancy, Job Security, Work-Life Balance, Job Satisfaction, Redundancy Advice Edinburgh, Redundancy Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

The shopworkers union Usdaw has won compensation worth up to £67.8 million for over 24,000 former employees of Woolworths made redundant when the firm collapsed at the end of 2008.

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UK employers are scaling back on all employment-related operations; with fewer organisations planning to offshore jobs abroad and recruit overseas workers against a backdrop of less recruitment and fewer redundancies. This is the key finding from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s autumn Labour Market Outlook report, a survey of more than 1,000 employers.

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The latest Happiness at Work Index, a regular barometer of workplace morale, shows that employee happiness has steadily decreased during 2011. The percentage of workers reporting high levels of morale has fallen from almost half (46.6%) in January to two fifths (40.6%) in March to the current figure of just 36.5%.

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The Government has announced new areas that it will consider reforming as part of its review of employment red tape – including collective redundancy consultation periods, the Transfer Undertakings Protection of Employment Regulations (TUPE) and compensation for discrimination awarded by employment tribunals.

Tags: Employment Law Reform, Redundancy, Transfer Of Undertakings, Discrimination, Redundancy Advice Edinburgh, Redundancy Advice Lawyers Edinburgh

Employee confidence and trust in senior leaders has dropped to record lows as the economic downturn continues to erode workers’ standard of living and undermine job security. These are the headline findings from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) spring 2011 Employee Outlook survey based on a representative sample of 2,000 people in employment in the UK.

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Redundancies look set to rise sharply in the first quarter of 2011 in the public sector as Government cuts bite, according to this quarter’s Labour Market Outlook from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and KPMG. However, job creation in the private sector offers some hope to the overall employment picture.

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The latest CIPD Employee Outlook Survey shows that employees are concerned over their standard of living and job security.

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