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Pay awards have risen to 1.2% in the three months to October, having been pay freezes for the past three rolling quarters, exclusive research has revealed.

Three NHS managers have been arrested over claims they blackmailed illegally employed colleagues, after it emerged an NHS trust had hired dozens and possibly hundreds of illegal immigrants.

ITN will freeze staff pay next year and cut 15 jobs in a bid to bring the company back to profitability after it recorded a pre-tax loss of £3m in the first six months of the year.

Recruitment and retention problems across councils have reduced significantly in the past year, although more than half of authorities still experience difficulties, according to a report by the Local Government Association (LGA).

Male grave diggers employed by Birmingham city council earned bonuses regardless of whether they carried out extra work, a tribunal has heard.

A City executive who is claiming £4m compensation for sex discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal was told her bonus was withheld because the company was undergoing a tax investigation, a tribunal heard.

A swine flu pandemic could cost the UK economy £72bn, scientists have warned.

The BBC's HR chief has defended the organisation's reward strategy after the salaries and job details of more than 100 managers were revealed last week.

The TUC has called on employers to prevent discrimination against transgender people at work.

Councils should set up in-house mediation services to address the "human casualties" and potential grievances which will result from next year's local authority budget cuts, leading local authority HR chiefs have warned.

The TUI Travel group is set to launch a graduate scheme in the UK for the first time, flying in the face of the recession, Personnel Today has learned.

HR professionals at the CIPD's flagship annual conference have accused the institute of lacking integrity and failing to promote best HR practice following a series of controversies this year.

A former Royal Mail HR manager has spoken out about the "frustrating" way the postal services firm deals with industrial relations, which has ultimately led the organisation to a state of "brinkmanship".

In what has been called "a very welcome decision for employers", the Court of Appeal has sent a £2.8m race discrimination award case back to the Employment Tribunal and told it to reconsider the level of compensation.

Dozens of prison officers are joining a picket line outside HMP Liverpool at the start of their second day of unofficial strike action.

A new Bribery Bill that makes it an offence to bribe foreign officials and for businesses that fail to prevent bribery is expected to be outlined in the 2009 Queen's Speech later today.

A T-Mobile employee is facing prosecution after selling personal details of thousands of British customers to rival companies in an alleged major breach of data protection laws.

A former Birmingham City Council boss has been accused of "fireproofing" bonuses for male employees so they wouldn't lose them when an equal pay initiative was enforced, an employment tribunal heard.

Manufacturers have called for the retention of the default retirement age of 65, a survey has revealed.