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The new mayor of Bridport in Dorset has in June dropped Christian prayers from council meetings. Instead, agnostic David Rickard has introduced a ‘short time of quiet, private contemplation’ at the start of meetings.
Work/Employment	Evangelicals Now August 2011



Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has issued a plea to businesses to recruit jobless British youths, rather than migrant workers. More than half the new jobs created in the UK over the last year went to foreign nationals, he said. As well as welfare reform and training, he said moves to cut unemployment included tackling competition from jobs from migrants. But he said business should also do their bit, by opting to give jobs to unemployed Britons rather than recruiting labour from abroad.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel July 3 2011



Women who break through the glass ceiling in work are more likely to help out their male subordinates than female ones. Research shows men who report to a female manager get much more mentoring and support than their female colleagues. The findings, published in the journal Social Science Research, add to previous evidence that so-called Queen Bee syndrome can be a major obstacle to women climbing the managerial ladder. Far from encouraging other ambitious women, psychologists at the University of Cincinnati found female bosses are more inclined to obstruct them.
Work/Employment	The Mail April 11th 2011



Thousands of job centre staff will today start voting on whether to go on strike in protest at “intolerable” working conditions they claim have led to high levels of stress and sickness. The public and Commercial Services union is balloting 7,000 members at Jobcentre Plus offices across the country, arguing that managers have “an obsession” with hitting targets at the expense of providing a quality public service.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel – 7th March 2011



Research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has found that 5.26 million people worked unpaid overtime last year – one in five workers and the highest since records began in 1992. The analysis carried out for the TUC’s Work Your Proper Hours Day found that those doing unpaid overtime clocked up seven hours and 12 minutes a week on average, worth £5,485 per person and a record £28.9bn to the economy.
Work/Employment	The Universe – 6th March 2011



The privatization of the Royal Mail moved a step closer as legislation allowing the business to be sold off cleared the Commons. The Postal Services Bill was given a third reading by 319 votes to 238. Postal Affairs minister Ed Davey insisted private investment was the only way to protect the universal service. He told MPs: “I simply don’t believe it is possible to protect that in the public sector any longer, at least not without increasing levels of tax payer subsidy.”
Work/Employment	The Sentinel January 13th 2011



Thousands of tanker drivers are to be balloted for industrial action in a row over pay, pensions and working conditions. Unite warned employers that voting was likely to start next month unless the “constant attack” on drivers’ terms and conditions stopped. The union said that over the past few years, contractors responsible for the delivery of oil and petrol supplies to petrol stations and supermarkets across the UK had “squeezed” the pay and conditions of around 3,000 drivers.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel January 15th 2011



Hundreds of firefighters’ jobs are threatened with the axe and fire stations with close because of the Government’s cuts, a trade union has warned. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said individual brigades faced having to cut hundreds of jobs in 2011 because its funding has been slashed. It accused Prime Minister David Cameron of breaking a pledge that frontline fire services would not be cut as a result of the austerity measures.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel January 3rd 2011



Government plans to force the long-term unemployed to do unpaid manual labour have come under fire from Labour, unions, charities and the Arch-bishop of Canterbury. Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith will this week unveil plans for four-week schemes of community work, doing jobs such as litter-picking or gardening for jobless people deemed to have lost the work ethic. But Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said the plan was unfair and may drive vulnerable people into despair.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel November 8, 2010



Moves towards equal pay for men and women appear to be grinding to a halt” because of long-standing inequalities in Britain, a report said today. A “landmark” study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) found some equality gaps had closed over the past generation, but other problems remained. One of the main findings was that the gender pay gap had fallen for the past 30 years, but progress seemed to have halted with full-time woman workers earning 16.4 per cent less than men.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel October 11, 2010



Hundreds of overseas doctors registered to work in the NHS have not been checked for their language skills or competency, new figures suggest. Fewer than one in four doctors are properly verified despite the furore surrounding the case of a German doctor who killed a pensioner in his care. The investigation by Pulse newspaper also suggests many NHS trusts in England have no accurate record of whether a doctor has been checked. In all 108 PCTs responded to questions under the Freedom of information Act.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel October 13 2010



Postal unions warned of job losses last night after the Government unveiled its controversial plans to privatise the Royal Mail. Overseas firms will be among those allowed to buy 90 per cent of the Royal Mail, with 10 per cent going in shares to postal workers. Business secretary Vince Cable also revealed pans to convert the post Office arm of the business into a mutual structure similar to the John Lewis Partnership, or Co-operative group.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel October 14, 2010



Office workers start to feel stressed by 11.30 on a Monday morning, a study has revealed. Catching up with emails and work-loads after the weekend leaves the average British clerical worker feeling stressed just two hours and 18 minutes after arriving in the office. Seventy per cent of those who responded to the Medicash survey admitted that they often feel stressed at some point during the working day. Almost a third have called in sick because they have reached the end of their tether – and 12 per cent have quit their job altogether.
Work/Employment	The War Cry - October 16, 2010



Unemployed people should be encouraged to volunteer as well as looking for work, the Bishop of Hereford has suggested. Bishop Anthony Priddis said that his proposal was one way to help charities which face problems with funding and a lack of volunteers. In the House of Lords, he said that unemployment was likely to rise but that would not widen the pool of people available for volunteering. “The Jobcentre Pus network rightly concentrates on getting people back into paid work and ensures that unemployed people use their time accordingly, which militates very strongly volunteering,” he said. “I wonder whether there might be a new dynamic that would encourage unemployed people to combine the search for work, which is fundamental, with at least some voluntary, or even paid, charitable work.
Work/Employment	Church of England - October 15, 2010



Anger over City workers’ pay is likely to be fuelled by new figures showing cash bonuses hitting £7 billion this year. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said pre-tax City bonuses are continuing to recover to pre-credit crunch levels. Bankers and other City workers, such as fund managers, have largely been blamed for the financial crisis. But the CEBR said the taxman will take home more of this year’s £7 billion bonus pot, which excludes share wind-falls, after the new tax rate of 50 per cent on incomes over £150,000 came into force.
Work/Employment	The Sentinel October 5, 2010

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