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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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.
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.
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.
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%.