Daily MailBA's Willie Walsh rounds on union as losses mountTelegraph.co.ukBritish Airways chief executive Willie Walsh accused the Unite union of talking "nonsense" as the £150m costs of cabin crew strikes and a £100m hit from volcanic ash chaos sent the airline to its seventh consecutive quarterly loss. ...Strikes push BA £164m into the red T […]
British Airways has revealed a loss for the April-to-June quarter after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland. […]
A round-up of HR-related stories in today's newspapers. Jobless people who choose to come off benefits and go to work will no longer lose out financially under the biggest shake-up of the welfare system for decades, […]
Business groups have reacted furiously to government plans to phase out the default retirement age (DRA) from April next year, arguing that employers will be left with insufficient time to prepare. Currently employers can […]
A round-up of HR-related stories in today's newspapers. Pay deals in the car manufacturing industry are lagging behind the rest of the private sector despite strong overseas demand for British vehicles, […]
A round-up of the latest people moves in the HR sector. Catherine Cashin has taken up the permanent role of head of HR and organisational development at Stevenage Borough Council. She initially joined the authority on a two […]
The default retirement age (DRA) will be scrapped on 1 October 2011 under proposals announced by the Government today (29 July). The new plans allow for a six-month transition from the existing Regulations, following the […]
Air travel poses no significant threat to cardiovascular health, according to guidance published by the British Cardiac Society. The guidance, published […]
The NHS may welcome the demise of pre-employment health screening, but the OH facility must still assess employees' needs. Nic Paton reports. It's time-consuming, costs money that could probably be better spent elsewhere a […]
Two significant initiatives are under way to improve the evidence base and sharing of information in the occupational health profession. A database of nurses working in the sector is being collated by the […]
Depending on who you want to believe, sickness absence is either falling fast because of the recession, or the downturn has led to a glut of sick days with stressed-out workers across Europe concocting more and more excuses not to come in. […]
Universal pre-employment health screening (PEHS) of all NHS staff is outdated and a waste of occupational health's time and resources, a hard-hitting report suggested. The […]