August 2009

UK Unemployment Rockets to Highest Level Since 1995

UK unemployment rose by a record 281,000 to 2.38 million in the three months to May, the Office for National Statistics has said.

The jobless rate increased to 7.6%, the highest in more than 10 years with the number of people claiming unemployment benefit increased by 23,800 in June to 1.56 million, which was less than analysts had forecast...

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Too Sexy for Prison: Officer Claims She was Hounded out of Job

A prison officer claims she was hounded out of her job by repeated criticism for being ‘too sexy’ and ‘glammed up’.

Amitjo Kajla, 22, is demanding compensation from Justice Secretary Jack Straw.

The 5ft officer told an employment tribunal how colleagues complained that she wore too much make-up and that her clothing was more revealing than the standard-issue uniform, which had to be adapted to her tiny size-four frame...

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Law Firm Staff Awarded Compensation for Lost Jobs

Two women who lost their jobs at East Lothian law firm Garden Stirling Burnet as a result of the credit crunch have been awarded a total of more than 20,000 compensation by an Edinburgh employment tribunal.

The tribunal ruled they had been unfairly dismissed, but rejected the age discrimination claims by Linda Bruce, 56, and Anne Crawford, 52, against the Haddington solicitors’ practice...

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Disabled Law Student Takes Former Employer to Tribunal

A law student with a prosthetic arm has taken her former employer, clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, to an employment tribunal after she was allegedly forced to work in the stockroom.

Riam Dean, 22, who was born with her left forearm missing, said she was given permission to wear a cardigan to cover the join in her arm...

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