Employment Issues
Below are our 9 articles in the 'employment issues' category:
When it comes to taking a stand over your rights as a worker or employee then the first step is to know exactly what those rights are which can be a real minefield. And the first step in that process ...
Companies who have invested in workforce development will have procedures to allow great ideas from the floor to come through, but research the idea and protect it before making any pitch, regardless ...
Once negotiations between workers and employees have broken down workers often take industrial action in order to force employers to back down. This often refers to going on strike, i.e. the removal ...
A worker’s right to privacy is not covered by any specific law or regulation in the United Kingdom but there are many that touch on it the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Human Rights Act, for ...
Taking industrial action on your own is a very brave thing to do and although there's nothing in law to say that your rights are any different to a mass strike, in practice it's a very different ball ...
The minimum wage in the United Kingdom was introduced after the election of the Labour government in 1997 and came into force in 1999. There is considerable debate as to whether a minimum wage is ...
It's often said that training and education can motivate staff, help keep teams together and generally raise the performance of an organisation, but it is sometimes difficult to get employers to put ...
Unemployment benefit, now re-labelled Jobseeker's Allowance, but still more commonly known as 'the dole', has existed in the United Kingdom since before the First World War, when mass unemployment ...
Ideas about the place of workers in the running of businesses first came about in the United Kingdom during the Industrial Revolution as working conditions in the quickly built slum towns surrounding ...
