A marketing agency founder and CEO was turned away from an Amazon business training course because the company does not allow babies at its fulfilment centres, The Times reported on Monday (6 June).
Employees of Octopus Energy are seeking union recognition, despite the CEO arguing that unionising is unnecessary because all workers own company shares, the Financial Times reported on Sunday (5...
Every employer understands that bullying and harassment in the workplace is unacceptable. Yet too often these behaviours are treated as isolated HR issues rather than early warnings signs of something...
Companies should give new employees health MOTs to help fix the nation’s sickness crisis, Charlie Mayfield said on Friday (3 July).
An employment tribunal has awarded a worker with a migraine condition €20,000 for disability discrimination after she was denied a four-day working week.
Right now, someone in your business might be running a CV through a free chatbot, or uploading a spreadsheet of employee data to build a quick report. Nobody told them not to, and nobody wrote the...
HR is at a fork in the road: continue to work with systems built for yesterday’s enterprise and 1970s processes, or leap ahead and dynamically help business leaders plan and execute people strategies...
Ford has rehired experienced human engineers to fix costly quality issues following a failed AI rollout, The Times reported on Monday (29 June).
Leaders of water company United Utilities are giving its chief executive a £435k “allowance” on top of their existing bonus and salary, The Times reported on Saturday (27 June).
With a record number of 16-to-24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neet), what should be in HR teams’ playbook when supporting employers wanting to take Neets on?
Pity the leader, fresh in post. They often inherit an established weather system that has been swirling for years.
Half (55%) of employees on holiday check work messages minutes after waking up, a survey by HR software provider HiBob revealed yesterday (2 July).
The Treasury removed numerical reasoning tests after finding they had an “adverse impact” on candidate diversity, The Spectator reported on Tuesday (30 June).
HR is at a fork in the road: continue to work with systems built for yesterday’s enterprise and 1970s processes, or leap ahead and dynamically help business leaders plan and execute people strategies...
Half (51%) of workers do not take their full annual leave allowance, survey findings published by HR software firm Breathe HR revealed on Tuesday (30 June).
Resident doctors in England and call handlers at South Tees NHS Foundation Trust accepted new pay deals on Monday (29 June).
HR must bring clear principles to the table, when managing acquisitions.
Shell’s CEO warned that Europe could face energy shortages next month, and advised employers to restrict workplace energy use.
HR leaders are in a unique position to eliminate ‘debt as a default’.
A quiet divide exists in the workforce. On one side are employees who can absorb life’s shocks: an unexpected bill, a few days off sick, a broken boiler. On the other are those for whom a single...
After UK chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled her second budget yesterday (26 November), we dig into the implications for HR practitioners.