employment law

  I was shocked to read this week that male executives in Scotland’s private sector are paid on average £10,000 more than their female colleagues.  The news reports also claimed that it would take another 75 years for women’s ...

  I read in the paper the other day that the Government cuts will result in the loss of 1.6 million jobs. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) have warned that the recent cuts in public spending allied with the rising rate of ...

  “If you’re good enough, you’re old enough” is a phrase often used to justify the selection of a promising young athlete or promotion of a young lawyer. But does it work in reverse? Not according to a generation of baby b...

  One of the side effects of the recession is that workers feel so insecure about their employment prospects that many of them are reluctant to report accidents at work, industrial or otherwise.   I increasingly hear stories of workers being ...

As the recession continues to bite, more and more companies are going to the wall, some of them without giving their employees due warning. Just the other week a large company in the West of Scotland closed its doors and turned its back on its employe...