The allegations levelled against Gordon Brown this week are a timely reminder that bullying is not simply the domain of the playground. Workplace bullying is on the rise, a by-product of the added pressure placed on workers and employers by the recession.
It can be hard to know where to draw
... Continue Reading
The TUC’s survey says unpaid overtime is soaring, with teachers and lawyers doing as much as 17 hours of free work a week. Photograph: Image Source/Rex Features
The number of people working “extreme” levels of unpaid overtime soared to almost 900,000 last year, with teachers and lawyers the most likely to
... Continue Reading
Age Concern and Help the Aged have reported that employees are increasingly forced to retire against their will.
More than 100,000 people were forced to retire against their will last year as employers used the default retirement age to cut back on jobs, according to Age Concern and Help the Aged.
The
... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — After eight months without work, Cathy Willburn spotted a classified ad last June offering a full-time job operating a forklift in a warehouse for $14 to $19 an hour, with benefits.
Ms. Willburn, 47, of Grandview, Tex., had done similar work, so she called the toll-free number and was
... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — After eight months without work, Cathy Willburn spotted a classified ad last June offering a full-time job operating a forklift in a warehouse for $14 to $19 an hour, with benefits.
Ms. Willburn, 47, of Grandview, Tex., had done similar work, so she called the toll-free number and was
... Continue Reading
A rapidly widening gap between skilled and unskilled employees will result in
the country’s workforce being split into the “elite and the excluded”
over the next 10 years, says a report published today.
By Roland Gribben
Published: 7:00AM GMT 16 Feb 2010
By 2020 the elite – workers in technical, professional
... Continue Reading
Whether it’s a failure to communicate useful information or a tendency for slip-ups that make you and your colleagues look bad, the chances are you could tell your boss a thing or two about the way he or she works. Recently it was even claimed that doing so would make
... Continue Reading
This interview with Vineet Nayar, chief executive HCL Technologies, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant.
Dan Neville/The New York Times
Vineet Nayar is the chief executive of HCL Technologies, an I.T. services company based in India. To help bridge the gap between C.E.O. and the rank and file, he once danced
... Continue Reading
The management column – straight-talking, common sense from the front line
with John Timpson
Published: 5:41PM GMT 07 Feb 2010
Q I’ve just told a long-standing member of staff who has turned 65 that I
would like him to retire. He’s been a great asset to the business, giving
... Continue Reading
Yvette Cooper: ‘You want people to offer flexible working from the beginning’.
Ministers are considering giving all employees the right to ask for flexible working hours “from the beginning” of a new job as part of plans to encourage a fundamental shift in working habits.
The work and pensions secretary, Yvette Cooper,
... Continue Reading
