Public and Commercial Services Union

Recent journal articles

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Absence Management 

Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 11 1 31 E

Age and the Workforce.

Journal: IDS Study
Additional Information: Managing an age diverse workforce - Age discrimination and Retirement - the legal issues.
Document number: 11 6 47 E

Alcohol and Drug Policies

Journal: IDS Study
Additional Information: This report focuses on how to deal with the misuse of alcohol and drugs by employees, specifically looking at: Policy content and implementation; also alcohol and drugs in relation to employment law. Several case studies are included.
Document number: 11 6 6 E

Childcare Support

Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 11 6 60 E

Determining Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Staff

Document number: 11 11 23 E

Employee Consultation

Journal: IDS Stud
Document number: 11 8 11 E

Employee Engagement

Journal: IDS Study
Additional Information: This issue of IDS HR Studies focuses on the subject of employment engagement, including a feature on 'Human Capital Measurement'. The issue also includes several case studies covering various aspects of this topic.
Document number: 11 6 24 E

Employment Law Feature: Human rights and employment law: Part 1

Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: It has been over ten years since the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force, incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. That Act has been a bugbear for some, accused of being responsible for numerous ills, including allowing criminals and terrorists to
escape deportation. In a speech by Prime Minister David Cameron, the UK's human rights culture was even partly blamed for the recent wave of riots. While the impact of the HRA on employment law has tended not to grab the headlines, there have been a number of significant rulings, affecting, among other things, disciplinary hearings, employee privacy, religious beliefs and trade union rights. In this two-part feature, we look at some of those decisions.
Document number: 11 9 109 E

Employment Law Feature: Human rights and employment law: Part 2

Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: This article looks at a number of key decisions on the rights to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association and property, all of which are guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights.
Document number: 11 10 2 E

Employment Law Feature: The Influence of EU Law

Journal: IDS Brief
Document number: 11 6 121 E

Employment Law Focus: Abolition of the Statutory Retirement Regime

Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: The abolition of the default retirement age (DRA) and the accompanying statutory retirement procedure represents a fundamental shift in UK employment law. This journal article examines the legal issues.
Document number: 11 3 50 E

Employment Law Focus: Additional Paternity Leave and Pay

Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: This article outlines the new legal framework imposed by the Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010 and discusses the potential problem areas for employers implementing the changes in the workplace.
Document number: 11 3 49 E

Employment Law Focus: Faith in the Workplace
 

Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: Following a spate of high-profile decisions involving religious employees this article examines a number of cases to see how tribunals and cases have dealt with tricky issues arising under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003.
Document number: 11 3 48 E

Employment Law Focus: Forming a Contract of Employment
Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: While it's rare for questions regarding the formation of a contract of employment to trouble the courts and tribunals, this does occasionally happen. This article looks at some of the issues that can arise.
Document number: 11 3 39 E

Employment Tribunal Statistics 2010-11

Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: The Employment Tribunal Service has recently published its Annual Report and Accounts. This article examines the report, which gives information relating to the number and type of tribunal applications, compensation and cost awards, and the disposal of different types of claim.
Document number: 11 10 4 E

Focus on the Agency Workers Regulations - The Commercial Reality

Journal: IDS Brief
Document number: 11 11 3 E

A Guide to dealing with employees on fixed-term contracts who are pregnant or on maternity leave

Document number: 11 6 50 E

Home Office: Staff Race Network

Journal: Equal Opportunities Review (EOR)
Additional Information: The Home Office's Staff Network for ethnic minority employees has promoted equality and supported staff for more than a decade. This journal article looks at the wide range of initiatives the group has introduced in pursuit of these goals.
Document number: 11 11 5 E

Hours and Holidays 2011
 

Journal: IDS Study
Additional Information: A review of the current situation.
Document number: 11 8 12 E

Implementing the Agency Workers Regulations

Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: The Regulations are destined to alter the position of temporary agency workers by entitling them to a limited form of 'equal treatment' after completion of a qualifying period. They are due to take effect on 1 October 2011.
Document number: 11 6 114 E

Industrial Conflict in the Engineering Construction Industry in Britain

Journal: CRES – Research in Employment Studies
Document number: 11 6 18 E

Injunctions as a Legal Weapon in Industrial Disputes in Britain

Journal: CRES – Research in Employment Studies
Document number: 11 1 27 E

IT Jobs Market Stays Loose but Engagement Will be Key

Journal: IDS Report
Additional Information: This article examines the IT jobs market and IT pay levels.
Document number: 11 1 8 E

Making menopause an issue for employers: Menopause
 

Journal: Workplace Report (LRD)
Document number: 11 2 67 E

Managing Stress

Journal: IDS Study
Additional Information: Stress is the largest single cause of long-term absence among white collar workers in the UK. It is not surprising, therefore, that considerable efforts are now being made to reduce its impact in the workplace. Employers also have a duty to conduct risk assessments and take action whenever employees are known to be experiencing stress. An effective stress management strategy will encompass a comprehensive stress audit, carefully targeted interventions and a well-structured rehabilitation process.
Document number: 11 6 23 E

Maternity and Paternity Leave – Statutory Rights

Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 11 8 18 E

Opposing the Age of Austerity: Creating Alliances of Providers and Users of Public Services

Journal: CRES – Research in Employment Studies
Document number: 11 8 6 E

Organisational Development

Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 11 1 18 E

Outsourcing HR

Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 11 3 20 E

Performance Management

Journal: IDS Study
Additional Information: This Study examines the performance management arrangements in five organisations. It looks at their business planning processes, considers how employee objectives are set, outlines how performance is reviewed throughout the year and explores the link between pay and
performance.
Document number: 11 1 45 E

Public and Private Sector Earnings: Fact and Fiction

Journal: IDS Report
Additional Information: This article looks at the issue of comparisons of the earnings between employees in the public and private sectors.
Document number: 11 8 14 E

The Public Sector Pension Dispute - Ballot Results and Strike Tactics

Journal: CRES – Research in Employment Studies
Document number: 11 11 16 E

Recruitment

Journal: IDS Study
Additional Information: This Study looks at the recruitment processes in five organisations and how they have changed in response to internal and external events.
Document number: 11 3 31 E

Sick Pay Policies

Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 11 3 19 E

Standby and Call-out Pay

Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 11 1 44 E

The State of the Union Movement Today

Journal: CRES – Research in Employment Studies
Document number: 11 6 2 E

Strikes and Industrial Action - Recent Developments in Britain

Journal: CRES – Research in Employment Studies
Document number: 11 6 3 E

Total Reward

Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 11 10 10 E