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Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News The TUC argues staff need to be told when, why and how information is being obtained, and who will have access to it. Every office generates so much email, IM and internet traffic it's all but impossible for management... [22 Oct 2009]
Recession making techies do more unpaid overtime
News One in three techies is giving away the equivalent of 34 days of unpaid overtime per year - an increase of two days on the year before, according to the TUC, which estimates these nose-to-the-grindstone workers do an... [27 Feb 2009]
Brits clocking up £25bn in unpaid overtime
News Across the country, the number of employees working extra hours for nothing is close to five million, says the Trades Union Congress (TUC). An extra 103,000 employees worked unpaid overtime in 2007 compared to 2006,... [04 Jan 2008]
Leader: Should you ban Facebook?
Leader The TUC trade union has also urged bosses to get more Facebook-savvy and said not enough companies are clear about what they expect from staff in terms of their personal conduct when using social networking sites. [31 Aug 2007]
Employers crack down on Facebook "addicts"
News The TUC trade union body this week urged employers not to overreact by banning Facebook in the workplace but Spencer Steel, IT manager at IT recruitment job website Informatiq Consulting, said his company was forced to... [31 Aug 2007]
Union wades into social networking row
News The TUC said not enough companies are clear about what they expect from staff in terms of their personal conduct when using social networking sites. The TUC said employers are entitled to ban the use of... [30 Aug 2007]
Stressed managers too busy to take holidays
News Almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of IT industry managers also backed calls by the TUC for a new bank holiday in October and 60 per cent said UK holiday entitlement should be brought in line with other EU countries. [03 Jul 2007]
'Scrap lie detectors for benefit claimants'
News Benefit claimants should not be made to take lie detector tests because the technology's accuracy has not been scientifically proven, according to the Trade Union Congress (TUC). Any use of the voice risk analysis... [04 May 2007]
Techies still racking up the unpaid overtime
News According to Trades Union Congress (TUC) research, ICT workers work an extra six hours six minutes per week, while IT service delivery staff work an average of four hours 36 minutes additionally per week. [23 Feb 2007]
UK workers clock up £23bn of unpaid overtime
News UK employees each work an average of more than seven hours unpaid overtime per week - which would be worth a total of £23bn if workers were paid for it, according to statistics from the Trades Union Congress (TUC). [04 Jan 2007]
Gordon Brown dubbed "analogue Chancellor"
News Shadow paymaster general Mark Francois said in a statement: "This scheme was endorsed by the DTI, the CBI and the TUC and this represents a very bad decision by the analogue Chancellor. Gordon Brown has been dubbed the... [05 May 2006]
Overworked techies desperate for more free time
News Separate research published by the TUC shows top managers put in on average an extra 12 hours of unpaid work each week. Senior IT staff put in less overtime than top managers - almost an extra day of unpaid work a week,... [07 Apr 2006]
Treasury reconsiders IT skills incentives
News General Secretary of the TUC Brendan Barber has welcomed signals to replace the scheme. The Treasury could replace the Home Computing Initiative - a scheme to give employees access to cheap computers - after a number of... [03 Apr 2006]
Leader: Long hours come with the job
Leader Not surprisingly the TUC singles out IT roles including CIOs, IT pros and helpdesk operators as notorious for long hours, with some working as much as £10,245 a year in unpaid overtime. Still a lot of IT staff are pretty... [24 Feb 2005]
CIO Jury: Unsocial and long hours are a "fact of life"
News Friday has been dubbed "Work Your Proper Hours Day" by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which is calling for all UK workers to only put in their contracted hours and take a proper lunch break for one day to highlight the... [24 Feb 2005]
