A Leicestershire police officer was found to have committed gross misconduct after an investigation revealed that he was using work avoidance tactics while working from home.
The 12 August deadline for entering the HR Excellence Awards 2024 is fast approaching.
Concern has been raised for employees’ health and safety as a heatwave hits the UK this week. Temperatures have reached 32C in some parts of the country.
Bosses at Tata Steel have clashed with unions over plans for greener manufacturing. Can employers balance sustainability with workers’ concerns?
We need Labour to make urgent and necessary changes to immigration to address the growing labour shortage and bolster the UK economy.
A female electronics engineer has been awarded what is believed to be the largest equal pay settlement in Northern Ireland at an employment tribunal. She claimed that her employer paid her unequally...
A female property manager was harassed by her boss who suggested they should go to dinner and to his house in Turkey “for all the fun stuff”, a tribunal ruled.
Psychometric data shouldn’t be consigned to HR files after recruitment, it’s a valuable source of insight that should be regularly revisited to build stronger teams, develop talent, and pinpoint...
Now is the time to support HR business partners, and to strategically equip them for success.
Representatives of parcel delivery service Evri are to recruit for 9,000 new UK employees as part of the business' expansion.
The number of tribunal claims that involved whistleblowing rose by 92% between 2015 and 2023, the Financial Times reported (29 July 2024). We asked commentators how HR can resolve whistleblowing...
From April 2026 onwards, payrolling benefits will become mandatory, making P11D forms a thing of the past. Though we’re two years away from what the payroll community calls ‘the big switch’, early...
Less than half (47.7%) of job adverts featured salary information in June 2024, the lowest recorded figure since job postings platform Adzuna started tracking the metric in 2016.
Nearly a fifth (18%) of employees have never received cybersecurity training, a survey by security awareness company KnowBe4 found.
Business leaders must prioritise providing meaningful, rather than mindless, feedback.
An HR manager has been awarded over £19k for pregnancy discrimination after her employer bullied and dismissed her on “trumped up” charges.
The employer-employee relationship is one of the most important financial relationships. With the recent period of high inflation and ongoing economic uncertainty, many workers find themselves in...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget has gone down poorly with employment experts, who have criticised its narrow focus on personal tax cuts and “bland and beige” policies.
There’s a reason trends go viral. It’s because they tap into the zeitgeist and vocalise something lots of us are thinking. This is certainly the case with 'loud budgeting'.
The government has proposed plans to introduce fees at employment tribunals in a move it said will claimants and employers to reach a settlement.
