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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.