Employee owned businesses (EOBs) are better at maintaining both top-line financial performance and employment levels than their non-employee owned counterparts, research finds.
Intercede is establishing a share incentive plan (SIP) for its workforce to help recruit staff.
Treasury secretary Danny Alexander says there is "more to be done" in boosting the profile of employee ownership and advancing the sector over the longer term.
New FirstGroup chairman John McFarlane is to be paid wholly in shares in the transport company.
ACAS is predicting that zero-hours contracts and pay awards will dominate workplace relations in 2014.
Unison is urging employers to offer greater childcare support to help encourage women back into the workforce and assist the economic recovery.
Rail union RMT members on Greater Anglia's West Anglia route are to take action short of a strike from next week over the company's "imposition of flexible working".
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) should be retained as a non-departmental public body, a government consultation has concluded.
Employers are failing to obtain a significant understanding of the return on investment (ROI) from the workplace benefits they are providing, a survey finds.
The vast majority of HR managers at larger firms have no confidence in the government's new Health and Work Service (HWS) despite it not being formally launched, a survey finds.