Newspapers and BBC
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Boss made offer to kit me out at sex shop
23/01/10
An office worker whose boss offered to 'kit her out' at an Ann Summers sex shop yesterday won a claim for sexual harassment.
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Crucial jobs talks breakdown at Jaguar Land Rover
25/01/10
Talks between management and unions over the future of Jaguar Land Rover have broken down after six days.
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Foreign Office mandarins pick up bonuses while intelligence budget is cut
22/01/10
Figures released by minister Lord Brett show that at least three-quarters of Foreign Office civil servants have picked up a bonus every year since 2006, including 4,423 last year.
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In a burka you're cutting me off as well as you
26/01/10
This article starts by saying "A ban would go too far, but covering the face makes normal human contact impossible.
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McDonald's 'wrong' to fire worker over cheese slice
26/01/10
A McDonalds restaurant in the Netherlands is reported to have fired a waitress after she sold a hamburger to a co-worker who then asked for cheese.
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The Road Haulage Association wins unfair dismissal tribunal
26/01/10
An employment tribunal at Croydon has found that the redundancy of Gerald Wilson, previously an IT systems architect at the Weybridge, Surrey headquarters of the RHA, was not unfair dismissal.
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Fire strikes suspended in South Yorkshire
26/01/10
700 firefighters in South Yorkshire have suspended the eight days of strikes they had planned from 27th January 2010 after an offer of talks.
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Tribunal is told of boss's 'advances' to saleswoman in car
26/01/10
A saleswoman named Victoria Steele who resigned from her job with Kings Armoured Security Systems is claiming that she did so because of sex discrimination following a complaint she had made about unwelcome advances by the then managing director (who was himself dismissed).
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Civil service workers ballot suspended
26/01/10
The PCS civil service workers’ union has suspended a strike ballot of 5,000 members after managers offered two weeks of talks on their future (for background notes see emplaw web-updater of 19th January 2010).
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Ex-Kidderminster employees awarded over £18,000 by employment tribunal
26/01/10
Four former employees Wildboar Group Ltd of Church Street, Kidderminster have won claims for unpaid wages and breach of contract at the Birmingham employment tribunal.
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Trade unionist sues Balfour Beatty
20/01/10
The first "blacklist" employment tribunal claim has started.
