Glasgow Employment Law Blog

Richard Branson’s recent blog post, Why we’re letting Virgin staff take as much holiday as they want, announced the introduction of a ‘(non) policy’ for parent company employees - essentially leaving them to decide when and for how long they will take annual leave.

April's Bank of Scotland Report on Jobs showed the Scottish labour market continued to grow, albeit at a slower rate than the previous month. The key findings of the report are as follows:

Latest estimates from the Office of National Statistics show that more people are getting jobs, with unemployment falling to its lowest level in over three years.

The key points of this month's Labout Market Statistics include:

New research from the CIPD has found that fears of intergenerational tensions within the workplace have been over-egged and that employers see clear benefits from an increasingly age diverse workforce.

A ground-breaking report on the future of work has highlighted the dramatic changes the UK’s workers can expect to see in the next two decades.

Managers are too stressed themselves to notice that their team members aren’t coping, according to a new study from Bupa.

Almost three-quarters of Britain’s workers who were on low pay in 2002 failed to escape from it over the course of the following decade, according to a comprehensive study of who is able to get on in life by moving up the earnings scale.

The use of social media to recruit new talent is increasing according to new research commissioned by workplace experts, Acas.