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Lack of soft skills hampers performance, research suggests

Three quarters (75%) of UK employers admitted to hiring a candidate with strong technical skills who later underperformed due to a lack of soft skills and cultural alignment, according to research...

Change | Editor's comment: Pro-change HR, we're following your lead

Change, they say, is the one constant, in business and in life. And it’s an area that HR leaders, as transformation specialists, are well used to navigating and thriving within.

Employment tribunal | Former HS2 whistleblower wins £320k

A former worker on the railway project HS2 has won £319,070.95 after being unfairly dismissed for accusing his bosses of disguising the true price of the delayed railway project, according to a...

Employee engagement | Manager engagement is falling fast. How can HR help?

Disengaged managers are leading disengaged teams. Rebuilding starts through leadership, coaching and motivation.

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Employment tribunal | Former chef wins £13k after work argument is blamed on medical conditions

A former chef has won £13,455 after an argument she had at work in front of customers was attributed to symptoms of anxiety, depression and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

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Leading well: Why small businesses leaders need to prioritise their own mental health

It's not just large companies which sometimes struggle with mental health issues among their staff.

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Employment tribunal | Former chef wins £13k after work argument is blamed on medical conditions

A former chef has won £13,455 after an argument she had at work in front of customers was attributed to symptoms of anxiety, depression and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Risk management | BA employee goes viral: How to manage reputational risk

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A British Airways cabin crew member has gone viral after being discovered dancing naked in a business class toilet mid-shift, according to The Independent’s report of the incident yesterday (2 June).

Employment law | Flight change: Why HR needs to get redundancies right

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The Employment Rights Bill is set to change how employers deal with redundancies. What’s on the horizon, and how can HR prepare to help organisations get redundancies right? Simon Kent reports.

Job design | When good roles go bad: How HR can design Smart jobs (part three)

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By embracing Smart work design, HR leaders can proactively create roles that people thrive in. Here’s why it matters.

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Health and wellbeing | ONS sickness absence data: How can HR support sick employees?

The number of working days lost to sickness and injury in the UK in 2024 was 148.9m, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data published on Wednesday (4 June).

DEI clinic | How to address the ethnicity pay gap

Do HR leaders have a responsibility to draw attention to the ethnicity pay gap? If so, how? As organiser of the University of East London (UEL)’s first Ethnicity Pay Gap Conference, Jummy Okoya shares...

Compliance | Pay transparency: What you need to get your head around today  

We’ve heard a lot about pay transparency over the past couple of years, ramped up since the EU Pay Transparency Directive was passed in June 2023. Sat in the UK, it’s easy to dismiss this noise as...

HR careers | Half of CIPD Trust's Aspiring HRDs achieve senior roles

Half of participants in the CIPD Trust’s Aspiring HR Directors (HRD) programme, designed to support HR high-performers from underrepresented backgrounds, have been promoted to senior roles since the...

Moonlighting | Solicitor fined £9k for moonlighting

A property lawyer was struck off for holding three jobs at once while working remotely.

Management | Half of British employees are put off by management careers

Half (52%) of UK employees in middle manager roles and below don’t see management as an aspirational career path, research has revealed.

Case study | How technology boosted Morson Group’s need for speed

Large language model technology has supercharged Morson Group’s productivity gains, as Dan Cave discovered.

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The cost of living crisis has returned: HR must be ready

The cost of living may again become a problem this year, representing yet another challenge for employers.

How can HR departments support younger employees to save money? 

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Economic uncertainty has illustrated the need for HR departments to support employees’ financial wellbeing.

Financial wellbeing support: Where is the boundary for employers?

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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...

“Bland” Spring Budget a flop for HR

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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.