Setanta Sports has gone into administration after a series of contract breaches left it losing the TV rights to sporting fixtures.

Flexibility in employment contracts and arrangements is helping firms and workers combine to keep businesses going in the recession, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said.

Over half the service sector jobs created in the UK over the past five years could be lost by 2011, a new report has warned.

The idea that employees should work without pay for a time to help a company get through the recession is a bad one, a representative of a labour law charity has said.

Unemployment in the UK has risen again, the latest official figures have revealed.

Unemployment in the UK is likely to continue rising until well after the official end of the recession, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has predicted.

British Airways (BA) has issued a request to its employees to work without pay for a month to help it stave off a financial disaster.

Apprentices could be eligible for the minimum wage under new proposals revealed by the government.

A landmark court case may have major implications for employment law after it was found that a council chief executive did not deliberately mislead her employers over her mental health.

Employees who have a long-term sickness absence from work will still keep their holiday entitlements, the law lords have ruled.