HR Newsletter

After many years of sending you the IPS Group Employment Law Newsletter, we regret to advise that this will be our last edition. We hope you have found past editions useful, informative, and occasionally amusing. IPS Group remains dedicated to recruitment for professional services. Our..read more

Low wages, inflation and pay freezes mean that for more and more employees a second job is a necessity. But is having two roles necessarily a bad thing?Meet Zoe Free, 24, senior recovery practitioner for Saccs, the charity that provides residential homes for children who have suffered trauma or..read more

A lawyer who was sacked from her high-flying job in Russia has been given the green light to sue a City law firm for almost £22 million. American Deidre Clark, 46, was dismissed from her £100,000-plus post in Allen & Overy’s Moscow office after she published instalments of an erotic novel online...read more

The Government was accused today of "betraying" disabled workers over controversial plans to close a number of Remploy factories. Demonstrations were held by hundreds of Remploy workers outside Government offices in London and Sheffield amid warnings that employees might never work again following..read more

Many multi-national companies are paying a lower rate of tax on their profits than most people pay on their income or when buying items subject to VAT, the TUC says today (Thursday) as it urges the government to launch a comprehensive review of the tax system to ensure that everyone pays their fair..read more

The number of over-50s out of work for two years or more surged between December and February as older workers struggled to get back into the labour market following redundancy. There were 118,000 people aged 50 and over who were unemployed for two years or more over the period, 13,000 more than..read more

There is no issue of principle where LGBT and religious rights are counterposed, despite George Carey's assumptions. George Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, has argued that Christian employees are excluded from many sectors of employment, have their beliefs "vilified" and are "driven..read more

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled that a solicitor may bring an age discrimination claim against the firm that dismissed him just 10 days before it appointed a younger and less well-paid solicitor to do a similar job. As reported in the Gazette, Sam Methuen began working at London firm Community..read more

Why are so many tattooed British youths blithely unconcerned about whether they are appealing to potential employers? can see what Chris Grayling, the Employment Minister, was getting at last week, with his benign exhortations to firms to “hire a hoodie”, but I have a dreadful feeling that all he..read more

Fifty-something women have landed the most jobs since the start of the recession as they take inspiration from the ultimate material girl to get the bills paid, according to research. Women aged between 50 and 64, dubbed the “Madonna generation”, have fared better than men and any other age group..read more

Nick Clegg's promise that interns are 'properly remunerated' cited by critics as party HQ advertises new unpaid positions. The Liberal Democrat party has admitted that it will not pay its interns a wage, more than a year after leader Nick Clegg promised that all party interns would be "properly..read more

Christians are being “persecuted” by courts and “driven underground” in the same way that homosexuals once were, a former Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. Lord Carey says worshippers are being “vilified” by the state, treated as “bigots” and sacked simply for expressing their beliefs. He says..read more

Around 2.7 million workers across the UK could face an increased risk of losing their jobs when the government increases the qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal from one year to two years on Good Friday (6 April).The TUC is concerned that this change in the law will also increase..read more

With exactly two months to go until the Diamond Jubilee weekend (taking place from Saturday 2 June until Tuesday 5 June) the TUC is today (Monday) calling on employers to ensure that workers do not miss out on the unique four-day celebrations. While most sensible employers will be giving staff an..read more

Older workers are worst hit when it comes to long-term unemployment, and experts warn it is a trend that will cost the economyAfter receiving thousands of rejection letters, 60-year-old Anthony Barlow decided to conduct an experiment. He had been on the dole for more than a year and was becoming..read more