Journal articles
The Information Service subscribes to over 180 journals with holdings going back over several years.
Journals taken by the Information Service include Labour Research, LRD Workplace Report, IDS Employment Law Brief, IDS Pay Report, IRS Employment Review, Health and Safety at Work, Equal Opportunities Review and Industrial Relations Law Reports.
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2007 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings
Additional Information: In April 2007 median gross weekly earnings were £457, up 2.9 per cent from £444 in 2006, for full time employee jobs on adult rates whose earnings were not affected by absence.
Document number: 07 10 19 E
Age Discrimination - An Introduction
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Document number: 07 9 74 E
Assessing 'Union Organisation'
Additional Information: By mid-2007, more than a decade had passed since the TUC rebranded itself under the 'new unionism' banner and launched the 'Organising Academy'. In the time, around 250 organisers have graduated through its doors.
The 'Organising Academy' was never meant to train all the organisers the union movement needed. Instead, its role was to train those that would train others to be a beacon for the spread of 'union organising' throughout its affiliates.
Separately and from around the same period, some unions with contacts in sister unions in the United States, Australia and New Zealand began to implement 'union organising'.
Document number: 07 9 21 E
Blogs and Work: Employer Policies on Blogging
Journal: IRS Employment Review
Additional Information: HR practitioners appear ill-equipped to deal with the issues raised by employee blogging and policies on the issue are rare outside the IT and media sectors, an IRS survey shows. We look at the results and at good practise among companies more experienced in the medium.
Document number: 07 9 81 E
Bullying: A guide for Members - Don't Suffer in Silence
Additional Information: This leaflet is designed to help PCS members who have experienced bullying or harassment at work. Recent surveys of PCS members have indicated that bullying is still an issue of major concern at work.
Document number: 07 9 88 E
Case Law at Work - Discrimination
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Document number: 07 9 71 E
Case Law at Work - Dismissal
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Document number: 07 9 72 E
Disability - A Guide to the Law (December 2006)
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Document number: 07 9 90 E
Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995
Guidance on Matters to be taken into Account in Determining Questions Relating to the Definition of Disability.
Document number: 07 9 91 E
Email, internet and e-communications policies 2007 - An IRS Survey of Current Practice
Journal: IDS Employment Review
Additional Information: The emergence of online social networking and the growth of mobile communications present new challenges for employers, but their principle concern is still that employees waste too much time online and access inappropriate website, an IRS survey shows.
Document number: 07 9 25 E
Employee Informants 2 - Anonymous Tip-offs and Leaks
Journal: IDS Brief
Additional Information: In the second article in our two-part series on employment and informants we examine the situation where the identity of an informant is not known, and consider how the employer should deal with an anonymous informant's identity; and the particular issues arising where an employee anonymously leaks information or makes allegations to the media.
Document number: 07 10 4
The Environment and Climate Change - An LRD Guide for Union Reps
Additional Information: This guide looks at workplace action to protect the environment as well as tools that can be used by union reps and trade union olicies to combat climate change.
Document number: 07 10 11 E
A Guide to Leave for Working Parents
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Document number: 07 9 73 E
A Guide to Safety Reps and Safety Committees
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Document number: 07 9 56 E
A Guide to Tackling Workplace Stress
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Additional Information: This guide examines the HSE guidance on tackling stress in the workplace as well possible courses of union action to deal with the problem.
Document number: 07 9 66 E
A Guide to Working Hours
Additional Information: This feature examines the working hours regulations and covers such things as the maximum working week, rest breaks and holidays.
Document number: 07 9 59 E
Hazardous Substances at Work - 2007
Additional Information: This feature examines control of hazardous substances at work including asbestos, lead, chemical hazards as well as major accident hazards.
Document number: 07 9 57 E
Health and Safety at Work - Physical Hazards
Additional Information: This LRD feature looks at such physical hazards as manual handling, fire, noise, and vibration hazards.
Document number: 07 9 58 E
Hours and Holidays 2007
Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 07 9 51
IRS Maternity Pay Survey: Payment for Keeping-in-touch Days
Journal: IRS Employment Review
Additional Information: This IRS survey of pay policies reveals how employers have chosen to deal with the question of paying employees on maternity leave who work "keeping-in-touch" days.
Document number: 07 9 44 E
IRS Pay Databank: 19 October 2007
Journal: IRS Employment Review
Additional Information: The Full findings of the IRS pay databank, providing analysis of basic pay settlements across the economy by sector. The pay databank analysis is based on information from around 1,000 pay settlements collected by IRS pay researchers every year.
Document number: 07 9 49 E
The Management of Health and Safety at Work 2007
Additional Information: Also examines the structure of health and safety law in the UK.
Document number: 07 9 55 E
Maternity and Paternity Leave
Journal: IDS Study
Document number: 07 9 50
Office Health and Safety: Clearing the Air
Journal: Occupational Health
Additional Information: This journal article looks at the issue of air quality in offices. The air in many offices can be surprisingly high in pollutants, so it is vital that employers regularly monitor indoor air quality.
Document number: 07 9 52 E
Pay and Conditions on Call Centres 2007/08
Less Growth in Average Salary Bands for Advisors and Retention Problems Overtake Recruitment Issues.
Journal: IDS Report
Additional Information: In this article we summarise the main findings from the eleventh annual IDS survey of pay and conditions in call centres. We look at salaries for customer service advisors and team leaders, pay settlement levels, recruitment and retention, staff turnover, sickness absence and trends in employment levels. The complete survey includes information from 70 organisations employing a combined call centre workforce of over 93,000 employees, in 188 call centres throughout the UK. The full research document is published separately.
Document number: 07 10 20 E
Private Sector Employers see Higher Pay Rises Continuing into 2008
Journal: IRS Employment Review
Additional Information: Our annual pay prospects survey questions 350 private sector employers on their pat intentions for the year ahead. It finds that employers expect to pay awards to remain high in 2007/08, with predictions at a median 3.5% .
Document number: 07 9 48 E
Public Sector and Civil Service Statistics (March 2006)
Additional Information: Gives figures for total workforce
Document number: 07 9 87 E
Public Sector Pay in 2007 and 2008 - Government's Pay Policy puts Review Bodies Under Spotlight
Journal: IDS Report
Additional Information: Discussions over this year's public sector pay round have been the most long-drawn out for some time, mainly as a result of the Governments policy on public sector pay. A number of major groups have still to settle, and the role of the Review Bodies has been highlighted.
This is particularly so in the Prison Service, and developments there do not bode well for those who would like to see these sorts of arrangements extended to police officers, who are already banned form striking.
But in addition, a complex situation has developed in the NHS, where Review Body status has been extended to cover non-nursing staff, but both they and their colleagues are now voting on an improved pa offer, the sort of situation that review body mechanisms were designed to avoid.
Document number: 07 9 18 E
Public Sector Pay Policy - A Report for the Council of Civil Service Unions (CCSU)
Document number: 07 9 20 E
Redundancy Law: A Trade Unionist's Guide (November 2006)
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Document number: 07 9 54 E
Stress at Work
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Additional Information: This feature examines the scale of the problem as well as the legal framework covering stress at work.
Document number: 07 9 65 E
Stress, Bullying and Violence at Work
Labour Research Dept (LRD)
Document number: 07 9 70 E
Survey: Part-time Work, Flexitime and Other Non-standard Working Arrangements
Journal: IRS Employment Review
Additional Information: An IRS survey of 163 organisations shows that employees have access to a wide variety of non-standard working arrangements, including part-time work, felxitime and term-time working.
Document number: 07 10 18 E
Top Pay in Local Government, Public Bodies and Agencies
Journal: IDS Executive Compensation Review
Additional Information: To provide a picture of top pay across the public sector, this journal article looks at the senior executive remuneration in 31 public bodies and corporations, 37 executive agencies and 40 local authorities.
Document number: 07 9 37
TUPE - A Guide for Reps
Additional Information: This is a straight forward and practical guide to the law on business transfers- and how it affects employees. It explains recent changes to the TUPE regulations and provides case law examples to show union and workplace representatives how the regulations are used in practice.
Document number: 07 10 12 E
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