New guidelines suggesting bosses watch out for mental-health problems end up medicalising normal emotions.

David Montgomery, who has died aged 84 of a brain haemorrhage, was one of the most prominent historians in the US and the model of a scholar-activist. Along with the late Herbert Gutman, he was the most influential practitioner of the "new labour history", which moved the study of workers away from the institutional history of unions to the workplace struggles, political ideologies and cultur...

Unbelievable. Obviously, they got direct orders from the White House on this one: Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home. During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on We...

Irresponsible workers who are injured at work because of their own mistakes should not be able to sue their employers for damages, a review of health and safety rules will say next week.

Telegraph View: The Chancellor must push through workplace reforms to stimulate the economy.

"Cradle-to-grave employment (at least outside the public sector) has been dead since at least the end of the Cold War. Undergraduate degrees in English and Film and Sociology and Philosophy (and a thousand other subjects) have had debatable workplace utility for as long as I've been alive." - Matt Welch....

Adrian Beecroft's radical suggestion to scrap unfair dismissal rules is politically unworkable but a genuine attempt to revitalise business

So of course this is going to happen: Tim Jones, the chief executive of the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest), said that forcing companies to offer all members of staff a workplace scheme would result in the “redistribution” of workers’ wages towards the extra huge pensions bill. He said: “There is no new money in

Discussing on Saturday with fellow activists what we need to do to defend our pensions, it was clear that our number one priority must be to maximise the turnout - and the "YES" vote - in the coming ballot.Floorwalking, leafletting, workplace meetings and branch meetings are needed everywhere - as is an LGPS pensions calculator to accompany the NHS pensions calculator on our website ( The first an...

Unions have promised the biggest campaign of "civil disobedience" ever seen in response to threats by the Government to curb their influence in the workplace.