Woman accused of stealing 7 lobster tails

Holiday pay for sales staff, including workers at financial firms, may be boosted by a ruling by the EU’s top court that said commissions must be part of holiday compensation.

Patients in hospitals across the UK are receiving Michelin-style dishes - or so hospital bosses think.

A group of female school employees have won a Supreme Court victory in their equal pay fight against a local authority.

A top British university has been criticised for spending £1.4m (€1.65m) on art including works by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol while it charges students £9,000-a-year (€10.600) and pays hundreds of staff less than the Living Wage.

A council boss has been suspended over allegations that she bit the backside of her only male colleague in an otherwise all-women department.

Unemployment has fallen for the fourth month in a row and more jobs are being created, especially for people over the age of 65, new figures have shown.

THE BBC was last night standing by Jeremy Clarkson following his remarks about wanting to execute strikers.

BRITAIN’S biggest public sector union said its members had voted in favour of a national strike later this month, piling pressure on ministers in an ongoing dispute over pension reforms.

The prospect of a strike by millions of public sector workers in Britain increased today after members of the biggest public sector union voted in favour of industrial action in the bitter row over pensions.

BRITISH unions are pressing ahead with plans for the biggest strike in a generation despite a new government offer on public sector pensions described as the “chance of a lifetime”.

More than a million public sector workers are to vote on strikes from next week in the biggest-ever union industrial action ballot, it was announced today.

Thousands of health and education workers have begun a 24-hour strike in the North. The walkout started at midnight and is in protest against frontline budget cuts.

Manchester: Britain could face the biggest wave of industrial action in a generation if agreement cannot be reached on public sector pension reform, the leader of the biggest public sector union warned yesterday.

Business and unions in the UK were divided tonight over the national minimum wage after the British government announced that the adult rate will increase by 15p an hour, benefiting almost a million workers.

A mass protest being staged in London today against cuts in public spending was set to be the biggest for years as more people than expected turned up to send an angry message to the British Government.

A CONSERVATIVE councillor in Britain has been arrested over a message on his private Twitter account calling for a newspaper columnist to be stoned to death, police said yesterday.

Cuts ordered by the Conservative-led British government are “ideological vandalism”, a leading trade unionist told a Belfast rally today.

Leaders of Britain’s biggest trade union today confirmed their support for former climate change secretary Ed Miliband in his bid to become Labour’s next leader, giving his campaign a big boost.

Former Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has won the support of a second trade union in a week in his bid to become the next leader of the Labour Party.

A SCHOOL dinner lady suspended after she informed a parent that his daughter had been bullied has been told she will not be allowed to return to work.

Unions and employers in Britain reacted with "alarm" today after unemployment surged to a 14-year high, prompting fresh calls for the UK government help for the growing army of jobless.

CHILDREN’S charity the NSPCC said yesterday callers reporting serious child abuse to its helpline had jumped by more than a third since the death of Baby Peter two years ago.

The health service in the North should be exempt from 3% efficiency savings which threaten to cut services to the bone, workers claimed today.

Liverpool Victoria bolstered its general insurance arm today with a £150m (€186.5m) takeover deal for the owner of insurance broker Hero.

Thousands of workers at the biggest local authority in the UK will stage a 24-hour strike tomorrow in a row over employment contracts, which will close schools, museums and libraries and hit other council services.

Striking classroom assistants in the North have suspended their action in a bid to broker a settlement, it was announced this evening.

Schools across Northern Ireland face serious disruption tomorrow after eleventh hours talks failed to avert a one day strike by thousands of classroom assistants.

The pre-election party conference season continues today with the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Dublin.

New proposals to help first-time home buyers get on the property ladder will be unveiled by Sinn Féin at its Ard Fheis this weekend, it emerged tonight.

The UK’s biggest trade union today called for an investigation into what it branded as “obscene” profits being made by private firms from the NHS.

Aviva’s plan to move 1,000 jobs to India, as part of costcutting measures which will see the loss of 4,000 UK staff, makes it just the latest in a long line of companies who outsource overseas.

The EU is obsessed with economic growth and increasing military might ahead of other issues like poverty and human rights, it was claimed today.

The British government was warned today it faced widespread industrial action by public servants in Northern Ireland in resistence to reform initiatives.

An Orangeman on Northern Ireland’s Parades Commission was today urged to resign after fresh questions were raised about his appointment.

A Filipina nurse who was targeted with her family in a petrol bomb attack was tonight thinking about leaving the North and going home.

A former nationalist MP and a prominent Orangeman are to serve on the next Parades Commission in the North, it emerged tonight.

A Belfast hospital was today warned it was putting some of the most vulnerable members of society at risk after it approved plans to close 36 beds for the elderly.

The British government plans to give fathers up to six months paternity leave and a year off work for mothers will help tackle the UK’s long hours culture, campaigners said tonight.

The battle to stop energy company Shell building a controversial gas pipeline on the Co Mayo coast has only just begun, protesters claimed today.

THE failure of the British and Irish governments to protect migrant workers is leading some desperate immigrants to take their own lives, the biennial conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) heard yesterday.

THE FAILURE of the British and Irish Governments to protect migrant workers is leading some desperate immigrants to take their own lives, the biennial conference of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) heard yesterday.

Call centre workers are suffering from a new industrial disease that is putting their livelihoods at risk, Britain’s biggest union warned today.

Pickets will be placed on schools across Northern Ireland today as thousands of non-teaching staff in the North's education service stage a one-day strike.