HR news and analysis including: a look back at the big stories of 2009 - swine flu and bonuses - and predictions of what 2010 will mean for the HR community.

UK Border Agency (UKBA) staff working at immigration controls in Calais, Dunkirk, Coquelles and Boulogne in France will be taking part in a one-day strike tomorrow (Saturday), following the breakdown of talks over plans to slash subsistence rates.

The Metropolitan Police force hopes to roll out two or three more off-site police training centres in conjunction with London businesses after joining forces with Sainsbury's this week.

The number of people employed by the NHS increased by 23,000 jobs to a record high in the third quarter of this year, official figures have revealed.

Pub chain firm Punch Taverns has had its remuneration report rejected by 55% of its shareholders.

Eurostar train drivers have started a 48-hour strike today, while the company's managers, also due to join the strike, have called off their action.

A new Public Sector Pensions Commission has been launched to examine the cost of the sector's final-salary pensions schemes.

Banking chiefs will try to convince the Treasury to drop the new 50% tax on bankers' bonuses by offering a combined contribution to the exchequer of £2bn instead.

Unite union has warned the threat of British Airways (BA) strikes is not over, despite the High Court ruling yesterday that their proposed 12-day strike next week was illegal.

An exodus of bankers moving overseas to avoid the bonus tax could be "a price worth paying" to reform the financial sector, a senior Bank of England official has said.

All serving Officers and Men of the Nigeria Customs Service are to be paid an additional one month salary in December 2009. The gesture was announced by the Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi during an interactive forum held with

EBONYI State House of Assembly Committee on Works, Transport and Project Monitoring, on Monday summoned the contractor handling 11.5 kilometre, Omege-Noyo-Nwakpu Alike road and bridge projects valued at over N1.4 billion to appear before it next Monday to explain why

The National President of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Gidado Hamman, has vowed that the Union will resist the Federal Government's proposed deregulation of the petroleum downstream sector of the nation's economy, even as he called for

FAMILIES, friends and colleagues of detained six labour leaders in kogi state have enjoined Inspector-General of police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo to thoroughly investigate the alleged trumped up charge, preferred against the suspects by police in Kogi State.

The national president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Hamma Gidado has said the Federal Government's proposed deregulation of the petroleum downstream sector, would be strongly resisted by the union even as the union is calling

ESKOM's top echelons might not have impressed SA much this year, but its employees were voted "best employees of the year" yesterday by the trade union Solidarity.

Support arrived quickly for long-time Baltimore community activists SharonBlack-Ceci and Steven Ceci, who were arrested and dragged from their home bycops on Dec. 9. As of Dec. 14 more than 1,000 people had sent in messages orsigned a petition demanding

On Dec. 9, supporters of political journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal marked the 28thyear of his incarceration on Pennsylvania's death row, more determinedthan ever to fight for his exoneration.

Workers World Party and Fight Imperialism, Stand Together(FIST) held a public forum Dec. 11 at the Solidarity Center in a tributeto martyred Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton.

At a national assembly of U.S. Labor Against the War held in Chicago Dec. 4-6,a resolution was passed unanimously that called for "an immediate end tothe wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and military attacks inPakistan." The resolution also