The Agency Workers Directive (AWD) is intended only to apply to those companies that use formalised pay scales, excluding about 90% of temporary workers in the private sector, the Institute of Directors (IoD) has claimed.

A fire station manager sacked for coaching his son through an entrance exam will lodge an employment tribunal later this year, it has emerged.

Vodafone will be two-thirds of the way through its £1bn cost-cutting drive by next March, the company said in a trading statement this morning.

Local councils have made a "final" pay offer to 1.6 million workers in an effort to break deadlocked talks, according to BBC online.

Conciliation service Acas has warned that the full depth and severity of the recession is still being realised across the UK employment landscape, the Herald reports.

A council worker has won £66,000 in compensation from Mid Sussex District Council for unfair and wrongful dismissal, the Daily Mail reports.

Unions will decide next month on whether to hold strike ballots after talks between British Airways and union bosses broke down.

A sector skills council threatened with closure is "incensed" and has accused the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) of failing to assess it properly during the relicensing process.

Employees who have been bullied at work are being urged to document their experiences in a bid to understand the cause and effect of bullying.

HR professionals today face a "double whammy" of a lack of experience in dealing with redundancy-related tribunal claims and a sharp rise in employment law, the chairman of Acas has warned.

When the U.S. scientific-military establishment,through NASA, put a person on the moon, it was a very big deal. It generatedsuch excitement and optimism; somehow this technological breakthrough wouldusher in a better, more enlightened period in human history Well, that was

When 4,000 unionized workers at 40 Acme supermarkets, who had been workingunder a contract extension since February 2008, received notice in late Junethat the company planned to terminate existing benefits and impose draconiancuts, the workers made their struggle public. Finally,

Six Democrats in the Senate announced July 16 that they will drop the cardcheck provision in the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill designed to forcebosses to acknowledge a union if a majority of workers sign cards to join theunion.

Pennsylvania state employees facing "payless paydays" took theirmessage that this is "totally unacceptable" straight to Gov. EdRendell's house in the East Falls section of the city on July 17. Workershad just received only 70 percent of their normal pay in

Advocates for a moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffsjoined environmentalists and supporters of single-payer health care on July 14when President Barack Obama visited metro Detroit.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published a report on July 2 confirming thegrowing economic disaster facing the working class. In June 14.7 million peoplewere unemployed and the unemployment rate was 9.5 percent. Since the start ofthe recession in December

A new publication by the group Breaking the Silence was announced on July 15.The group is composed of veteran Israeli soldiers who "demandaccountability regarding Israel's military actions in the Occupiedterritories perpetrated by us and in our name." Interviews and testimony

Tarek Abedrabb, a young Syrian man in the Viva Palestina delegation, and a young Egyptian health care worker on the convoy write about Gaza.

The largest U.S. humanitarian aid convoy to Palestine in history went over theRafah border crossing into Gaza in the late evening of July 15. The 218-personcontingent of activists brought more than $1 million in wheelchairs, walkersand medical supplies to the

Leonard Peltier, like Mumia Abu-Jamal, has become known around the world as asymbol of U.S. government injustice toward the peoples it has abused andbetrayed over centuries. Peltier has a full parole hearing coming up on July 28—the first onesince 1993.