There's a little watched off year election I'd recommend you keep your eye on taking place in the Buckeye State. It concerns an attempt to repeal Senate Bill 5, the signature legislative achievement of Governor John Kasich that curbs, for the first time, collective bargaining leverage for the public employee unions. As in many other states, particularly those run for years by Democrats, ...

A former employee of John Prescott has been paid 'more than £50,000' of taxpayers' money to keep quiet.

Nick Cohen is infuriating. A textbook neocon most of the time, every so often he seems to move back Left, even if never for very long. And Cohen’s call today for no one in the public sector to be paid more than the Prime Minister is spot on. Furthermore, we must ban any company from paying any employee more than ten times what it pays any other employee, with the whole public sector (including M...

What Bob Piper said. I really think the labour movement ought to consider a push for employee directors. An employee rep on a remuneration committee would surely finally get companies to pay some real attention to the widely ignored bit in the Combined Code about being sensitive to pay and conditions across the company when setting directors' pay. The idea has also been picked up by the Treas...

Did you read about the business man who marched a thieving employee to police station only to be charged with false imprisonment... while thief got off with a caution? "A boss who paraded an employee around the streets with a thief sign around his neck before taking him to a police station has been charged over the stunt. But employer Simon Cremer is outraged at the charges as his employee Mark Gi...

Because regulators don’t have the correct incentives. A 2009 report by the SEC’s internal watchdog called into question the conduct of 21 staff members for work related to Madoff. David Kotz, who wrote the report, had urged the SEC to act on an “employee-by-employee basis” to prevent a recurrence of mistakes that kept the agency

The public sector (including MPs and Ministers) should be banned by statute from paying any employee more than ten times what it pays any other employee, with its median wage pegged permanently (and, again, by statute) at the median wage in the private sector. That is the policy of the British People's Alliance. Unions and others, do get in touch - info@britishpeoplesalliance.org.uk

A Colorado State employee is facing discipline for sending the above photo to four of her colleagues at work: The 73-year-old Colorado Department of Transportation worker forwarded the e-mail to at least four co-workers and others on Dec. 22 using her state e-mail account. One of the recipients outside the agency complained. The original sender of the e-mail, who isn't a state employee, wrote...

The results are in from the key off year election in Ohio, and they're positively schizoid. The public employee unions and the Democrats spent almost $40 million to defeat Governor Kasich's Senate Bill 5, which limited public employee union's collective bargaining rights on health coverage costs, pensions and wages and gave city councils and school boards the right to impose a '...

The results of the recall elections against 6 GOP state senators of Wisconsin are in, and they weren't happy for tax and spend 'progressives'.Only two of the GOP senators lost, preserving the Republican majority in the senate. This was largely seen as a referendum on Governor Scott Walker's efforts to balance Wisconsin's budget and curb its rapacious public employee unions...