Pay awards are continuing to lag well below inflation, with just 2% of settlements keeping up with the retail prices index (RPI) in 2011, research has found. According to XpertHR's latest pay trends report , the median basic pay award rem  More...
16 December 2011 09:43

A doctor who was dismissed from her position at a hospital in Yorkshire has been awarded £4.5 million after winning a tribunal claim for unfair dismissal, sex and race discrimination. Polish-born Dr Eva Michalak worked as a consultant at Mid Yorkshi  More...
16 December 2011 09:34

Suggestions that the Government could force cancer patients in the middle of treatment to undergo "back to work" interviews to prove they are too ill to work have been strongly attacked by charities. The plans, which are being consulted upon, were c  More...
16 December 2011 09:27

The Government has outlined the proposed fees for employment tribunals, as it launched a consultation on their introduction. Announcing the consultation today, justice minister Jonathan Djanogly outlined two options for the fees: Option one i  More...
14 December 2011 11:44

UK employment figures rose by 128,000 in the three months to October to 2.64 million, the highest level since 1994. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the jobless rate was 8.3%, up from 7.9% three months ago, its highest rate sin  More...
14 December 2011 11:08

Fit notes have "nudged" managers to have conversations with staff on sick leave about their return to work but have failed to improve absence levels, say employers. In a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and   More...
14 December 2011 00:01

Employers' hiring intentions have dropped to their weakest level in three years, a survey has found. The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey found that the jobs market was "flat-lining", with four-fifths of employers intending to either not hire or to  More...
13 December 2011 14:17

Employees are working nearly two hours less per week on average than in 1992, due to changes in the structure of the economy, official figures have revealed. According to data published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), av  More...
08 December 2011 13:26

Permanent staff placements have decreased for the second month running and are falling at the quickest rate since 2009, a report has found, contrasting with more positive job-market data released earlier this week. The latest Recruitment and Employme  More...
07 December 2011 15:20

More than four-fifths (81%) of employers provide sick pay above the statutory entitlement, according to research published by Unum and Personnel Today. Further, two-thirds of organisations said that they continue to pay their employees for up to one   More...
06 December 2011 10:20

New job opportunities have risen to their highest level for almost two years and employer demand for new staff is 20% higher than at the same time last year, according to figures published today. The figures, taken from November 2011 and released in   More...
05 December 2011 14:48

Public sector unions have lost their High Court battle over alterations to how pensions are calculated. George Osborne announced in his emergency Budget in June 2010 that, with effect from April 2011, pensions would be uprated using the consume  More...
02 December 2011 16:21

Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has announced that it will lead the development of a Higher Apprenticeship programme for young people looking to move into the professional services sector. Earlier this week, business secretary Vince Cab  More...
02 December 2011 12:49

The construction industry has been warned that it needs to learn from the health and safety successes of the London Olympics 2012 project if it is to improve its record of accidents and fatalities. The sector is still one of the most dangerous in th  More...
02 December 2011 10:51

Money problems affect more than two-thirds of cancer patients, with a combination of being unable to return to work, the cost of hospital trips and increases in household expenses all exacerbating the mental toll of simply dealing with the condition, ac  More...
02 December 2011 10:51

Government suggestions that workplace inspections for small companies could be capped to just two per year to cut back on red tape have been criticised by unions. Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said in October that a "culture change" was needed at  More...
02 December 2011 10:00

The number of people being killed at work rose sharply between April 2010 and March 2011, latest statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have shown. The jump to 171 workers fatally injured , up from 147 the previous year, bucks th  More...
02 December 2011 08:51

The number of people that have been diagnosed with diabetes in the UK has increased by nearly 130,000 to 2.9 million in the past year, the health charity Diabetes UK has warned, adding that this is nearly a 50% rise since GPs first published diabete  More...
02 December 2011 08:51

Phased returns to work and return-to-work plans that incorporate input from the absent employee are among the most successful tools for managing long-term absence, research has argued. The study, by XpertHR, has also identified keeping in touch by p  More...
01 December 2011 10:00

The head of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has sparked controversy by describing the third part of the register as a "shambles" in need of reform and questioning whether or not occupational health nurses should even sit in that part of the regi  More...
01 December 2011 09:30