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Brits clocking up £25bn in unpaid overtime
News TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said workers in the UK are giving away too much for free to their employers - and should think how their time could be better spent with friends and family. Brits clocked up a total of £25bn-worth of unpaid... [04 Jan 2008]
Consider remote access and IP address management in your Active Directory network design
White Paper Authors: Melissa Craft, Michael Cross, Hal Kurz, Brian Barber The methods used to gain remote access into your organization's network and manage IP address management for remote access can impact the implementation of Active Directory and should... [13 Sep 2007]
Union wades into social networking row
News TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said simply cracking down on the use of new web tools such as Facebook is not a sensible solution to a problem that is only going to get bigger. Companies must introduce policies on the use of social networking... [30 Aug 2007]
'Scrap lie detectors for benefit claimants'
News Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, said ministers should abandon any plans to subject benefit claimants to the technology. Barber said the overwhelmingly majority of claimants are honest and not "gangsters or mafia dons", and those... [04 May 2007]
Techies still racking up the unpaid overtime
News TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said although most staff are happy to put in extra time when there's an emergency or extra pressure, this should not be taken for granted week in, week out. Nearly half of IT professionals work more than their... [23 Feb 2007]
Chip and PIN goes undercover
News The magnifying screen, recently trialled at Boots the Chemist in Cambridge, also has the added bonus of helping partially sighted customers see the PIN pads better, according to Boots essential operation manager Clive Barber. [29 Jan 2007]
UK workers clock up £23bn of unpaid overtime
News TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said in a statement: "We work the longest hours in Europe, and too many workplaces are gripped by a long hours culture. UK employees each work an average of more than seven hours unpaid overtime per week - which... [04 Jan 2007]
Create an enterprise patch management infrastructure with WSUS
White Paper Author: Brian Barber, et al This chapter from Syngress' How to Cheat at Managing Windows Server Update Services explains how to efficiently deploy WSUS in a complex network environment. Windows Server Update Services is designed to streamline the... [17 May 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 business groups objected to... [03 Apr 2006]
Online banking booming
Howard Barber, associate director at NOP World Financial, said the growth in online banking can be partially attributed to once-novice consumers now getting comfy with the concept of managing their money virtually. [10 May 2005]
Online banking: It makes the UK happy
News Howard Barber, associate director at NOP World Financial, said the growth in online banking can be partially attributed to once-novice consumers now getting comfy with the concept of managing their money virtually. [09 May 2005]
IT workers lose thousands in unpaid overtime
News TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said in a statement: "Too many workplaces are gripped by a long-hours culture, where staff are expected to put in unpaid extra time week after week. Trades unions have hit out at a "long-hours culture" that... [24 Feb 2005]
Lawyer's fax blunder costs EC €100m
News Last year a number of important emails meant for Ronnie Campbell MP, including a draft copy of a speech given by Tony Blair, ended up in the inbox of Ronnie Campbell, a Cumbrian barber. A lawyer's failure to operate a fax machine correctly has been... [18 Oct 2004]
Time to rebel against long unpaid hours
News TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: "TUC research shows that the general increase in workloads is a major factor in the increase in workplace stress. And the reasons we find ourselves in this position include "under-staffing, over-loading... [26 Feb 2004]
Techies: You're being ripped off - find out by how much...
News Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the TUC, claims Britons work the longest hours in Europe on average, with many working the equivalent of an extra day unpaid each week. Barber believes many of the changes required are cultural rather than... [24 Nov 2003]
