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Employee Appreciation Day | Boss praised for repaying worker who lost their wages
Employee Appreciation Day is a chance for leaders to let their staff know just how much they are valued,...
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Something for nothing | Staff worked £27bn worth of unpaid overtime last year
UK employers gained unpaid overtime from their staff worth a whopping £27billion last year, according...
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'Ungrateful' | Fury as employee sends colleague's scathing social media post to their boss
A worker has sparked debate after revealing one of their colleagues shared their social media posts with...
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'Hundreds of texts' | Boss demands worker attends meetings and takes calls while on holiday
A worker has claimed their boss demanded they keep attending working meetings and keep their phone turned...
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'Appalling treatment' | NatWest faces £2m payout for sacking worker days after cancer surgery
NatWest could be forced to part with £2million after a tribunal ruled an employee was wrongly dismissed...
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Tech troubles | Slack outage highlights perils of remote working
Thousands of workers were left unable to contact their colleagues yesterday after one of the most popular...
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'Highly sensitive topic' | Worker wins legal fight over boss' 'humiliating' menopause remark
A worker has emerged victorious from an age and sex discrimination case after her boss said to her “she...
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WFH woes | How does remote working impact workplace culture?
A third of workers haven't been back to their workplace since the pandemic began in March 2020, a new...
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'It's just confusing' | Staff mock Zuckerberg's latest bid to rebrand Meta's values
Meta's attempts to rebrand its company culture & values, including calling co-workers 'metamates'...
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£22k payout | Worker's 'lazy old white guy' jibe to colleague was racial abuse, judge rules
A worker who experienced "stress and sleepless nights" after being labelled as a “lazy old white guy”...
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On your bike | Ex-Peloton staff crash new CEO's first meeting after thousands of jobs cut
Ex-Peloton staff crashed the firm's new boss' first meeting in protest after almost 3,000 jobs were...
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'Conflict & confusion' | HR at risk of legal battles with staff as last COVID rules set to end early
Employers and HR leaders have been warned not to 'cut corners' as they scramble to prepare for an...
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SACKED | Pregnant worker caught spying on staff emails and spending hours 'pram shopping'
A pregnant employee was sacked after bosses discovered she was spending hours each day online shopping...
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Privacy | CNN exec's secret office romance puts workplace relationships under the spotlight
The president of CCN has resigned after it emerged he failed to disclose a relationship with another...
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'Huge implications' | Pimlico Plumbers defeated in landmark court battle over holiday pay rights
A worker has won a landmark legal case at the Court of Appeal regarding whether he should be paid thousands...
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EXCLUSIVE | HR experts reveal how THEY would conduct a Downing Street party investigation
The much-anticipated Sue Gray report into alleged Downing Street parties during lockdown was published...
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Tesco | Firm embroiled in HR furore as disabled worker wins £45k discrimination payout
An ex-Tesco worker has been awarded a huge pay-out after a tribunal ruled he was the victim of disability...
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'Definitely getting sacked' | Worker caught red-handed after faking COVID test to go clubbing
An employee's attempt to use a fake COVID test result to get out of work was foiled after her boss...
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'Everything is fine' | Amazon axes scheme which paid staff to praise working conditions
Despite ongoing claims of staff mistreatment and unsafe working conditions among its warehouse staff,...
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'Where's my stapler?' | Shocking data reveals how many staff steal from their workplace
New data has revealed that nearly 19 incidents of employee theft per day have been reported to the police...
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