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| Official information from the DfES, the UK Government department responsible for education and employment policy. Offers information for parents, schools, job seekers and employers, and resources for training and equal opportunities. Also includes all DfES press releases. | |
| Guide to using the Internet to find jobs. Includes links to general recruiters, population specific resources, and resources for specific occupational areas. | ||
| Full results of a 1994 study of the technological issues and impacts related to telecommuting. | ||
| International Labour Organisation programme aiming to develop and test methods of designing effective country programmes and policies with a view to promoting decent work. Features a full text document highlighting decent work issues and policies. | ||
| Presents a guide to key sources of information for librarians working in organisations with an interest in labour issues. Includes guidance on collection development and selection policy, national and regional publications, and a suggested list of periodicals. | ||
| Assesses results of the implementation of a National Minimum Wage in the UK in April 1999. Claims that a large number of people have benefited from the minimum wage, that most business have found the resultant costs to be manageable, that employment has continued to grow in the low pay sector of the economy, and that both employers and workers have adapted to the change. Also offers developmental suggestions concerning younger workers, compliance and enforcement, pay, working time, and government funding. Report is presented as PDF document. | ||
| Report examining child labour in sixteen developing nations around the world. Provides an overview of the types of work performed by the estimated 250 million child workers in these countries and their labour conditions. Also reviews child labour laws and enforcement efforts, descriptions of education initiatives aimed at increasing primary school enrolment, and examples of efforts to address the exploitation of working children. | ||
| Offers information on school and workplace bullying and its consequences. Gives advice on legal action which can be taken to help tackle the problem, and discusses related issues such as stress, disfigurement, and minorities. Also offers advice from employers on developing a policy to deal with bullying at work. | ||
| Main purpose of the LFS is to produce a set of national and regional employment and unemployment statistics for use by government departments and for comparison with other European Union countries, based on internationally standardised definitions. The LFS asks a range of basic questions relating to household composition, housing tenure, ethnicity and related topics. It also collects detailed information for each adult in the household relating to education and training, employment, unemployment and job search activities, reasons for not wanting to work, income, labour mobility, travel to work, trade union membership, current working conditions, hours of work and health. Files available in SIR DBMS and SPSS formats. | ||
| Collection of resources featuring links to the Web pages of labour economists, research centres, statistics on labour markets, datasets for labour market research, a discussion forum, and a selection of journals, online books, and articles. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to the labour market. | ||
| Searchable collection of links to case law, commercially available case reports, news, statutes, bills, statutory instruments, UK government resources, EC and EU material, and organisations, private services, and trade unions. | ||
| Free employment service for those seeking and offering job vacancies within the UK charity sector including posts in administration, care, finance, fundraising, information technology, management, personnel, and public relations. | ||
| Resource offering ideas on how to make the most of university and prepare for subsequent employment. Includes tips on time management, presentations, revision, exams, writing CVs and letters of application. | ||
| Free service for those either recruiting or seeking employment in the museum sector throughout the world. Postings are keyword searchable, and employers can add advertisements automatically, uploading their corporate logo if desired. | ||
| Released as a follow up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, this series of reports examine trends relating to fundamental principles and rights in the workplace. Areas addressed include forced or compulsory labour, child labour, and discrimination. | ||
| Contains time series for countries and geographical areas covering exchange rates, fund accounts, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, wages, production and employment, international transactions, government finance, national accounts and population. Requires authorization from the Data Archive before access is permitted. | ||
| Professional body promoting standards in careers guidance. Its members work in careers services, schools, colleges and universities, in training and enterprise councils or local enterprise companies, in private guidance agencies, and as freelance consultants. Information includes a positional statement on the added value of placment within a careers guidance setting. | ||
| National organisation offering articles covering social policy issues including social security, housing, employment, immigration, discrimination and health. Details are given on how to become a volunteer or get advice and a bureaux directory is provided. | ||
| Information about the Work Permit Scheme, which allows employers based in Great Britain to employ people outwith European Economic Area countries. Application forms and guidance notes are available online. | ||
| Online recruitment system for graduates and employers, featuring a database of vacancies and a listing of forthcoming recruitment events. Enables graduates to enter a personal profile free of charge which is searchable by potential employers subject to a standard fee. | ||
| Recruitment resource for academic and associated communities, fully searchable by job, contract, or employer type, as well as discipline, and location within the UK. Also includes a selection of employer profiles, free email registration for current vacancies, as well as a selection of Internet resources dealing with graduate positions, seasonal work, and international vacancies. | ||
| Provides the opportunity for students from Europe to gain work experience, to practise their English and to explore the British way of life. | ||
| Contains time series information relating to the manufacturing industry in various countries, compiled on an annual basis and dating from 1963 1994. For industry in the manufacturing sector, data have been collected for the following main economic indicators: number of establishments; employment; wages and salaries paid to employees; output; value added; gross fixed capital formulation; number of females employed and index numbers of industrial production. Registration required. | ||
| Offers a database of graduate employers and job vacancies throughout the UK and Ireland, and of postgraduate courses and research in the UK. | ||
| Presents guidelines on the employment of people with disabilities in libraries. Covers facts and figures on disabled people in employment in the UK, the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, government employment services, building adaptations and facilities, and references to useful organisations. | ||
| Aim is to promote the rights and welfare of those in work and to campaign for policies which help the unemployed in their search for quality jobs. | ||
| Resource for employment and career opportunities in Genomics, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology and Biocomputing. Includes listings of jobs by company (alphabetical and geographical) and by category, and provides facilities to post CV information and new job vacancies. | ||
| Refereed journal which discusses education with regard to employment and the workplace. Topics covered include the development of a learning society, apprenticeships, National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs), and skills recognition. | ||
| Describes the nine principles drafted at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 1999, intended to encourage business leaders to unite the power of markets with universal ideals relating to human rights, labour standards, and the environment. Also suggests ways in which the principles can be put into practice. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to labour law. | ||
| Contains time series which can be used to examine recent economic development in the OECD member countries, and regional aggregates, such as the EEC. Provides statistics on employment, prices wages, industrial production, retail sales, construction, finance, deliveries and stocks and orders. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to industrial psychology. | ||
| Branch of the International Labour Organisation which strives to encourage and assist governments, employers, and workers to develop policies and practices to improve working conditions and the dignity of employees. Covers topics such as working time, maternity protection, sexual harassment, and workers' privacy. | ||
| Listing of jobs available in the education field in the UK. Includes vacancies in administration, further education, higher education and schools. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to vocational education. | ||
| An online service supported by leading universities in the UK aiming to promote research careers. Users can add their CV to a data bank which will then be accessible to potential employers. Available to post graduate students and researchers at member universities. | ||
| Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to unemployment. | ||
| A large searchable catalogue which provides access to a set of key statistics drawn from over 230 UK government datasets. Topics covered include population, income, balance of payments, birth and death rates, consumer expenditure, marriage and divorce rates, economic activity, employment and unemployment, education and training, road accidents, household income and expenditure, gross domestic product, housing, livestock, labour market, international migration, criminal offences, national lottery, recycling of waste, atmospheric and water pollution, drug seizures, and various other social statistics. | ||
| An overview of the International Labour Organisation report, which examines the impact of new information and communication technologies upon life at work at a time when the global employment situation remains a cause for concern. Argues that despite positive developments in some industrialised countries, the growth of new employment opportunities in most parts of the world remain insufficient to employ those who have lost jobs due to restructuring, as well as new entrants into the labour force. A free copy of the full text report is available for order on CD ROM. | ||
| The mission of ACAS is to improve the performance and effectiveness of organisations by providing an independent and impartial service to prevent and resolve disputes and to build harmonious relationships at work. | ||
| Information for employers and employees on the implications of the minimum wage law signed by President Clinton on August 20th 1996. The page includes the history of the minimum wage, an analysis of its impact on working people, information for employers, details of employee rights, information on individual state minimum wage laws and details of amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act. | ||
| Continuation of the annual Labour Force Survey. The main purpose of the QLFS is to provide internationally comparable statistics on the levels and changes in employment, unemployment and economic inactivity. The questionnaire collects general information about the household, family composition, housing and demographic characteristics. The main topic areas include economic activity and inactivity; employment, unemployment and under employment, educational qualifications and training, labour mobility and health and disabilities which affect work. Available in SIR-DBMS format. | ||
| Examines issues affecting the economy as well as social and private behaviour. Research topics, relating to both US and international data, include supply and demand of labour services, labour markets and economics, demographics, unions and collective bargaining, personnel economics, distribution of income, and applied and policy issues in labour economics. Tables of contents and abstracts are available. | ||
| News, campaigns and events, publications and information about volunteering overseas. Includes a small sample of jobs. | ||
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