A national blacklist of retail employees sacked for dishonesty is up and running, and could soon be extended to other sectors, Personnel Today has learnt. Mike Schuck, chief executive of campaign group Action Against Business Crime (AABC), said the  More...
16 May 2008 00:00

Many employers are still uncovering discrepancies, inaccuracies and lies in candidates' job applications, according to Personnel Today's sister publication Employment Review. The study of 177 employers showed that applicants made dishonest claims abo  More...
06 May 2008 14:55

The number of employers being prosecuted for hiring illegal workers has risen dramatically. Figures obtained by the BBC revealed a total of 137 businesses were caught employing illegal immigrants in March and April, the two months after the la  More...
06 May 2008 10:14

I loved your April Fool story - 'Darling buries recruitment charge in depths of Budget' ( Personnel Today , 1 April) - and, of course, nobody fell for it. But here's a not-so-foolish tip for companies quaking in their boots at the thought of having t  More...
08 April 2008 17:48

Individuals that want to work with children and vulnerable adults will have to pay a £64 fee to get official checks carried out. From October 2009, the new Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) will mean a single vetting body maintains a list of p  More...
02 April 2008 12:03

Tough new employment checks for all NHS staff are to be introduced tomorrow (1 April). The checks have been revamped following last summer's failed terror attacks in London and Glasgow after it emerged key suspects had come to the UK to work in the  More...
31 March 2008 11:27

Three in four employers don't use social networking sites as recruitment tools, research has revealed. A poll of more than 220 HR professionals by Personnel Today and law firm Charles Russell found that 73% of companies avoid trawling through sites   More...
28 March 2008 08:51

The article 'Dishonest CVs on the increase' (Personneltoday.com, 7 February) demonstrates the need for supplementary tools to be used to support CVs in the recruitment and interview process. Even interviewing has its problems, with independe  More...
26 March 2008 11:11

Plans to publish employment tribunal judgments on the internet have been delayed, according to the government. Tribunals minister Bridget Prentice said the Employment Tribunals Service had decided to shelve plans to make decisions available online  More...
14 March 2008 08:29

Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 , which currently sets out the law on prevention of illegal migrant working in the UK, will be repealed and replaced on 29 February 2008 by Sections 15 to 25 of the Immigration, Asylum and N  More...
25 February 2008 17:13

Lying on CVs continues to be a serious risk for employers, with dishonesty increasingly prevalent among 36 to 40-year-olds. A survey of 3,800 CVs conducted by employee screening specialists The Risk Advisory Group, found that in 2007 the number of ca  More...
07 February 2008 10:34

Online social networking sites could have a negative impact on your career progression, new research has found. Recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark has warned jobseekers to act with caution when publically displaying their personal life act  More...
04 February 2008 11:26

Human resources news and analysis including: A missed opportunity for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to work with China  - one of the fastest growing countries in the world Speculation that Jackie Orme, the ne  More...
07 December 2007 15:56

Human resources news and analysis including: Employer opinion on the Leitch Review of Skills one year since it was published The latest news from the CBI conference, including the role of HR in forthcoming Labour policy Office Christmas par  More...
30 November 2007 17:25

Human resources news and analysis including: the winners of the Personnel Today Awards 2007 why the FA should use psychometric testing, and following the HM Revenue & Customs' "datagate", what possible new powers for the informati  More...
23 November 2007 16:36

Promoting a culture where it is safe for staff to raise whistleblowing concerns is good for business and reduces the risk of unwarranted external disclosures. These days few question that such a culture helps organisations to deter and detect wrongdoing  More...
15 October 2007 08:00

Newham Council's head of Human Resources has defended its decision to ask employees whether they are gay. Susan McNally insisted that the sexual orientation question on a recent survey proves the London authority's commitment to equal treatment.  More...
17 September 2007 10:15

Nine in 10 undisclosed criminal records discovered in City job applications are held by people going for temporary positions, research has revealed. Pre-employment screening firm Powerchex analysed almost 3,000 job applications for financial service  More...
15 August 2007 15:20

Barclays and G4S are just two recent victims of bad press coverage broken by undercover journalists. So what can HR do? Background screening at the recruitment stage to help spot bogus CVs and references is one way of screening out potential troublemakers.  More...
17 July 2007 00:00

The role of HR in managing employee fraud is again under the spotlight following the jailing for two-and-a-half years of a former Bexley Council employee found guilty of fraud . Michael Barry of Whitstable, Kent, was an accountant at the council. B  More...
10 July 2007 14:25

Legal experts have warned that encouraging HR professionals to take more responsibility for checking and monitoring immigrants coming to work for them could "land them in trouble". Matthew Davies, employment lawyer and partner at law firm Fox   More...
10 July 2007 08:00

HR found itself at the heart of the war on terror last week after key suspects arrested in connection with the failed car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow were revealed to have come to the UK to work in the NHS. Sian Thomas, deputy director of tru  More...
09 July 2007 08:00

Employers have been warned to scrutinise CVs thoroughly when recruiting senior management following the resignation of a leading hotel executive who was suspected of lying about his qualifications. Patrick Imbardelli , head of Asia Pacific ope  More...
15 June 2007 15:20

Two-thirds of the British workforce would lie on their applications to get the job, research has found. A survey conducted by recruitment site Monster.co.uk , questioning 3,800 people, revealed that four in 10 respondents lie about their reaso  More...
05 June 2007 14:12

A quarter of working Brits, more than seven million people, are disillusioned with their jobs, a report has found. A study commissioned by recruitment referral company TheCareerMole.com , and conducted by research firm YouGov , fou  More...
29 May 2007 14:10

Roger Singleton will chair the government’s Vetting and Barring Scheme aimed at checking all individuals working with children and vulnerable adults, it was announced this week. The scheme, expected to launch in 2008 under the Safeguarding  More...
02 May 2007 10:20

Many employers regularly use networking websites such as MySpace http://www.myspace.com/ to obtain personal information about prospective staff. Are there legal risks in using the internet to find out more information on job applicants? Clearly,   More...
17 April 2007 08:00

Hundreds of thousands of social care staff are working in settings with vulnerable adults before they have been given a full Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check. Employers are appointing individuals who have been checked against the Protect  More...
19 March 2007 08:20

Diversity tsar Trevor Phillips' bid for positive discrimination to be legalised has been dismissed by businesses. Phillips, head of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights , last week insisted "special measures" were needed to ensure dive  More...
08 December 2006 09:03

A nurse is taking the Metropolitan Police to court after waiting five months for a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check to be processed. The CRB checks, which should only take 28 days to complete, left Sally Powell unable to work and claiming be  More...
01 November 2006 12:09

In the age of spin, it is accepted that jobseekers will use a CV to accentuate their positives but, according to research, a growing number of people are massaging the truth beyond what is generally deemed acceptable. Employee screening company The   More...
24 October 2006 08:00

I am taking a breather from our current major recruitment drive to rage about the number of errors I find in people's job applications. And I'm not even talking about the kind of howlers that Guru prints . The debate about young people's low lit  More...
26 September 2006 08:00

Law firm Eversheds has introduced online verbal and numerical reasoning tests to help sift the 4,000 candidates who apply each year for a training contract. The online tests, designed by assessment firm PSL, have been integrated into Eversheds' online   More...
08 September 2006 11:02

Licence scheme fails to address issue of unchecked firms.  More...
16 August 2006 08:29

Small businesses urge the government to put pressure on the at the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) to improve its performance.  More...
01 August 2006 09:00

Most employers have serious doubts about the reliability of CVs and academic qualifications, according to research.  More...
20 July 2006 08:40

Guru is a very busy chap. However, he wants to make it clear that his door is always open to his disciples if they need to get something off their chests. So please lie down on the couch and we'll begin. Dear Guru, Being in the process of shortl  More...
18 July 2006 08:00

Recruiters typically conduct three or more different pre-employment checks on applicants, and may go as high as seven, according to research by Personnel Today's sister publication IRS Employment Review . The research shows the extent to which  More...
18 July 2006 08:00

Job interview discrimination disadvantages ethnic minorities.  More...
07 June 2006 09:02

Strange CVs seem full of application afflictions  More...
30 May 2006 08:00

Disciple Adrian has been collating interesting claims that have been made on CVs that ended up on his desk during the course of 2005.  More...
02 May 2006 08:00

The chief constable of Avon and Somerset Police has admitted that his force used "inappropriate" recruitment techniques when excluding white applicants.  More...
07 March 2006 15:32

Depending how often the CRB checks are repeated, this must be a very good idea and will only minimise the risk to our children ('Union claims CRB checks on existing school staff are waste of money', PersonnelToday.com, 3 February)  More...
28 February 2006 08:00

Royal Mail's staff vetting procedures have been slammed as the service was handed a record £11.4m fine for failing to adequately prevent mail being lost, damaged or stolen  More...
13 February 2006 09:32

Keeping potential recruits waiting is a high risk strategy where there is a skills drought.  More...
08 November 2005 15:24

The government has revealed that tens of thousands of businesses will be accredited to make identity checks on customers and employees, should ID cards be introduced as planned in 2007.  More...
02 November 2005 15:02

The Home Office is working with companies to encourage them to use ID cards for verifying the identities of their staff and customers.  More...
20 September 2005 11:00

A quarter of CVs submitted for financial sector jobs contained incorrect or false information, suggesting an intention to deceive  More...
08 August 2005 08:31

There's probably not an HR department in the land that doesn't think one or more of their staff are robbing the business blind with fiddled expenses or bouts of illness that seem to strike on particularly sunny days. However, Alejandro Martinez, a res  More...
12 July 2005 00:00

Sir Digby Jones has criticised The Apprentice for showing business in a bad light.  More...
05 May 2005 12:49

India's outsourcing suppliers plan to introduce a national screening programme for employees to improve the security of clients' systems.  More...
19 April 2005 14:10

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has admitted that its recruitment policy discriminates against protestant applicants.  More...
24 March 2005 07:52

Staff handbook ensures Spurs staff know how to work with children safely  More...
04 March 2005 12:30

Too many businesses are ill-prepared for the possibility of a terrorist attack, according to an NOP poll for the Institute of Directors. The survey of 500 IoD members shows that 49% of businesses have no contingency plans to help them cope with a terr  More...
17 February 2005 16:12

Traditional interview processes currently used by health authorities to recruit doctors are unsophisticated and lack scientific rigour, according to new research. A study by the British Psychological Society shows that key, such as 'empathy and sensit  More...
13 January 2005 13:00

Goverment policies have been blamed for fuelling discrimination against people with HIV. A study by the National Aids Trust and Sigma Research found gay men and African people living with HIV in the UK face widespread discrimination. The report s  More...
11 January 2005 11:57

Lies, omissions and inaccuracies on CVs are on the increase, but this is good news for the UK’s pre-employment screening and vetting agencies.  More...
12 October 2004 00:00

The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 have been some time in the making. But after a number of consultations, the update to the 1976 Regulations finally comes into force this month, with a three-month period for implementation.   More...
01 April 2004 09:07

As prospective employees become more deceitful in their CVs and job applications, HR must become more rigorous in checking the facts.  More...
30 March 2004 17:12

Everything you need to know about screening employees  More...
23 March 2004 14:57

In the wake of Ian Huntley's murder convictions for the deaths of two young girls, what are employers' legal options in data retention and verification issues when recruiting new staff? Think back to a recent BBC2 Newsnight programme i  More...
01 March 2004 13:29

Making it contractual to regularly check staff for criminal records is one way of ensuring employees do not slip through the net.   For many employers, employee vetting is essential and is usually done before an offer of employment is ma  More...
01 March 2004 12:02

Painting an accurate picture of prospective employees is becoming increasingly critical for organisations, but how does HR go about doing it? Kath Burke looks at the techniques of pre-employment screening  More...
10 February 2004 12:51