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The article focuses on cheque imaging and processing at banks and other financial institutions in Great Britain, and the use of cheques by traders, micro and small businesses. Topics discussed include the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, the comment of Fiona Gledhill of Cheque and Credit Clearing Co. on transmission of electronic files, and the concerns raised over fraud, security and foreign cheques.

The article focuses on the concerns of occupational health nurses on the implementation of incapacity benefit reform proposed by Great Britain's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which aims to get incapacitated employees back to work. Nurses advice employers to conduct incapacity assessment. The failure of the DWP, the National Health Service, private sector and consultancies to address which of occupational health staff will be involved in the incapacity assessment added to the confusion of nurses. Nurses are also confused on the extent in which they are required to work with people who are unwilling to return to employment.

The article reports on the Contracts of Employment Act., a new labor legislation in Great Britain and the opposition from both the employers and the labor unions to it.

This article offers world news briefs. Great Britain has cut off German ore shipments from the port of Narvik. Enemies of the U.S. Labor Board are attempting to destroy it by encirclement with certain amendments nullifying its effectiveness. Experts suggest that there are more illegal aliens in France than any other country.

The onslaught of Winston Churchill's, statesman of Great Britain, on the Labor Party during the steel-nationalization debate was as brilliant a piece of sustained invective as that master of invective has ever achieved. It drew excited cheers from his back-bench supporters. Churchill, in his latest speech, accused the Socialists of pretending opposition to Communists while acting as the handmaids and heralds of communism. Worse still, he coupled this charge with the suggestion that the Labor Party had no right to pursue Socialist policies because the country was dependent on the non-Socialist U.S.

"Britain's fragmented and weak system of enforcing labor market rights is costing workers billions a year and doing too little to prevent good firms being undercut." (Bloomberg) -- British companies are skimping on pay and time off for at least 1 million workers, short changing some of the poorest people in society by £255 million ($318 million), the Resolution Foundation said. [Extracted from the article]

Focuses on several socio-political issues from the world. Report that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Labor Relations Act and sanctioned its application to important manufacturing industries; Report that the British Cabinet once more timidly retired before fascist threats by advising British ships not to try to land foodstuffs at Bilbao, Spain, which Spanish dictator Francisco Franco has blockaded; View that the U.S. Congress must wrestle soon with next year's appropriation for relief; Report that the animus of Premier Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario against the unionized automobile workers on strike in the Oshawa plant of General Motors of Canada Ltd. is difficult to understand except on the ground of a guilty conscience; Opposition of newspapers to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan for reconstruction of the Supreme Court; Information on the national poll conducted by the Institute of Public Opinion as to the leading figures in the Democratic Party; Report that the American Newspaper Guild continues to register impressive gains on many fronts; View that President Roosevelt and the U.S. State Department will exercise great care in selecting the new American Ambassador to Cuba; Rumors that diplomat Jefferson Caffery is about to be appointed American Ambassador to Brazil; Views of the journal on a supplement to its issue of March 17, 1937 dealing with the article "The Press and the Public" that no newspaper in Saint Louis, Missouri supported President Roosevelt in the last national election.

Focuses on plans of the Labor government for nationalization of few industries in Great Britain. Information on the process of nationalization is compensation; The British government feels that it can no longer take the risk of having wealthy men put their money into the production of luxuries for their own class when there are grave shortages of necessities for everybody, and steps will therefore be taken to supervise the general flow of investment; Need of large quantities of coal at a reasonable price for the British industries; Dependence of the efficiency of the coal industry on large amounts of new capital; Information on the nationalization of all forms of transportation except shipping; Examination of all aspects of the industry and particularly, of course, relations between management and labor by the working parties committees; Impact of the new nationalization on housing; Discussion of the town planning that is a part of the program of the Labor government.

(Bloomberg) -- P&O Ferries acknowledged that it failed to follow rules on consulting with unions before dismissing 800 staff last week, while saying that U.K. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps was told of plans to restructure almost four months before the firings created a political firestorm. "Deeply Concerned" A day after P&O announced the firings, Shapps wrote to Hebblethwaite saying he was "deeply concerned" about the way it had informed the government. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that often, after years in power a government runs out of ideas and is reduced to walking backwards in front of the opposition in the hope of stay-big ahead. After seven years, New Labor has reached that stage, although it is still spewing a diversion. a cloud of policy announcements, green and white papers, and draft bills. Unfortunately, seven years in opposition hasn't been long enough for the conservatives to regain their sense of direction, so there's nothing much for the government to walk backwards in front of.

Describes a research on an assessment tool that can help organizations comply with the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act in Great Britain. Type of adjustments commonly asked by employees in complying with laws; Method of data collection; Conclusion.

(Bloomberg) -- Uber Technologies Inc. is bracing for a ruling from the U.K.'s top court that threatens to alter the firm's business model in its biggest European market. Although the ruling will only apply to Uber, a lot of businesses will have to review their contractual terms as it could give people the impetus to pursue similar claims, said Aiston, who's not involved in the case. [Extracted from the article]

In February last, Great Britain's House of Commons appointed a committee "to inquire whether, and if so in what way, the hours worked by railway servants should be restricted by legislation." On July 16 this committee reported the evidence already taken, and recommended that a committee be appointed on the same subject in the next session of Great Britain's Parliament. The evidence given before the committee has just been printed in a large volume and forms an important contribution to the subject of the hours of labor and the advisability of legislation there upon. The general question of a shorter day was discussed by the railway employees, and also by managers who have to do with large interests.

The article reports that the labor crisis in Great Britain has ended following the end of several industry-wide strikes. According to the author, the calm being experienced by the British after the labor unrest might just be temporary. He states that it is possible that strikes will emerge as the country's primary problem right after the war. He also claims that the root of the labor unrest can be traced to labor fatigue, with workers working long hours to support the war while living on short rations.

The article presents an interview with Lord Philip Hunt, health and safety minister at the British Department for Work and Pensions. He claims that the government's new health strategy for people of working age promises a big role for occupational health (OH) practitioners. He describes "Health, Work and Well-Being--Caring for Our Future," the government's blueprint for the health of the country's working-age population.

The article presents the author's views regarding the labour's rail policy for General Election in Great Britain in May 2015. He provides an overview on the history of the country's previous election in 1997 in connection with the achievement of former Prime Minister John Major on his aim of irreversible rail privatisation. The author also mentions the cost of rail travel in the country as well as its impact to the society.

The authors explore the implications of the new laws introduced by the British government, which increases the rights of temporary workers, for firms hiring agency employees. They note that the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 will be implementing the directive of the 2008 European Temporary Workers' Directive, which will entitle temporary workers with the rights enjoyed by permanent staff. They then offer an overview of the arrangement between an agency and a temporary workers in a contract.

The article explains the legal implications of public interest disclosures or whistleblowing in Great Britain. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA) protects employees from being dismissed as a result of whistleblowing. The law was passed because of the prevalence of employee dismissal after they revealed issues relevant to them and the company. The authors explain the protection provided by the Act to whistleblowers. They also clarify the application of the whistleblowing policy.

Presents a compilation of news briefs on occupational health and industrial safety in Great Britain that were collected from the "Personnel Today" and "Occupational Health" magazines. Health hazard of work-related stress; Proposed expansion of the Injury Costs Recovery Scheme of the National Health Service; Information on the Operating and Financial Review regulation.

Presents information on a law introduced by the British government regarding price-fixing and open competition. View of the Conservatives on the act that denounces the restrictive measures by which employers secured the maximum profit for themselves with the minimum efficiency and effort; Opinion of Justice Richard Devlin that his decision regarding the price-fixation would have adverse effects on an industry already in difficulties; Report that the law permits the continuance of monopoly practices which can be shown to be in the public interest; Effects of the law on cotton mills and on the general public; Statement that a large number of the British working class have come to believe that a job is an end-in-itself, not to be judged by the nature or quality or amount of the work that goes with it.

The article reports on the plan to limit cost burden of the Temporary Agency Workers Directive (TAWD) in Great Britain. It cites director of external relations Tom Hadley of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) citing the impact of such plan to temporary workers. The implementation is believed to take effect until 2011 under the law of European Union (EU).

The article provides information about the new Employment Equality (Age) Regulations in Great Britain. The new regulations would outlaw age discrimination of people of all ages in employment, as well as in vocational training. It affects three main areas which include the recruitment and selection, training and development, and redundancy and retirement. The new regulations require the business enterprises to be careful in the admission and management of employees.

This article focuses on relations of the British Government with the trade unions. The Labor government had negotiated a so-called "social contract," with trade unions. Under the contract, the unions could ask for only one increment in 12 months. This contract was made to lessen their wage demands in return for a package of pro union, anticapitalist legislation. Now the government has asked for the Phase III of the contract. But, this time, trade unions are not ready. They don't want another political deal. The coal-miners voted to seek a 90 percent wage increase from November 1, and the Transport and General Workers' Union voted against accepting any further pay curbs. The contract has been unable to prevent further inflation in the nation. The Government says that if the Phase III is not agreed by the unions, it will vote not adjust the pay as per the inflation.

Presents information on socio-political developments around the world. Report that to West Coast union men suing for damages as a result of their ouster from International Union of Machinists for advocating Right-to-Work laws, have lost their case; Description of an agreement reached by De Beers for diamond production in the Soviet Union; Concerns regarding the dismissals of German nationals from British firms and boycott of West German goods; Opinion that despite behind-scenes pressure from Havana, Mexican President Lopes Mateos will not visit Cuba during his current six-nation Latin American tour.