Back Pain Growing Problem for UK Employees
A recent study by Nuffield Health shows approximately three million UK employee/workers experience problems with back pain and are, either, unable to work or are on long-term sick leave as a result. Additionally and worryingly, somewhere in the region of six million individuals working in the UK have back pain that is undiagnosed. While a […]
Unfair Working Practices a Problem Across Scotland
According to a report recently published by Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS), in excess of 46,500 Scottish workers and or employers are ‘desperate’ and ‘miserable’ due to unfair working practices – an increase of 5.5% on the previous year. The report – Fair Enough? – lists a number of unfair working practices including: Employees who were […]
UK Employers Attitudes to Pregnant Women Needs to Change, says Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) last week released a report, which suggested that attitudes held by employers must urgently be changed, with expectant mothers still being dismissed, bullied and sidelined. The TUC report – called ‘The Pregnancy Test: Ending Discrimination at Work for New Mothers’ – said that what the law states on paper and […]
Calls for greater action to improve workplace equality
The Government needs to do more to ensure workplace equality and to tackle female under-representation in certain sectors of the economy, claims a report from the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee. Workplace gender inequality can occur in many different ways; from women finding it harder to obtain jobs in certain sectors; to […]
24% increase in compensation to teachers
The largest teachers’ union, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), saw a 24% increase in the amount of compensation paid to its members in 2012. The majority of the awards related to employment, equality and personal injury claims. In 2012, says the NASUWT, its members received compensation amounting to £15,610,924 – […]