Businesses have been urged to look beyond short-term problems they may face as a result of new minimum wage rules and consider the interest of the economy and staff.

Staff at LDV vans may be made redundant unless a possible takeover by a Malaysian company can be clinched at the 11th hour.

Those working on the minimum wage in the catering industry will no longer have tips included as part of their pay under new legislation.

Over a third of staff are working for employers who have made redundancies or are planning them, it has been revealed.

An equal pay case has started in Swansea that could have implications for civil service workers in London.

People living and working in Ealing and Westminster are more likely to have suffered from the recession than those living in Brent, a new study has revealed.

Britain's opt-out from the European working time directive is to remain in place after talks on the future of the law broke down.

Unions are threatening to strike over the possibility of redundancies in the academic sector, with ballot papers having been sent out.

The new equality bill has been published by the minister for women and equality, Harriet Harman, who has pledged that it will help females, ethnic minorities and the disabled in the workplace.

Official figures have confirmed a rise in the number of people out of work.