HR news and analysis, including: Find out who was the overall winner at Personnel Today’s glittering awards ceremony  on 27 November – and listen to why they thought they won the coveted trophy We discuss how recent developments in the Sh  More...
28 November 2008 17:52

A lesbian soldier has been awarded almost £190,000 in compensation after being sexually harassed by a male sergeant. An employment tribunal awarded lance bombardier Kerry Fletcher £186,895 for sex discrimination, victimisation and sexual harassment.  More...
27 November 2008 11:34

Muslim twin sisters claiming sex, race and religious discrimination against a City firm have won a multi-million pound out of court settlement, according to press reports. Twins Samira and Hanan Fariad took Tradition Securities and Futures to an e  More...
13 November 2008 08:30

Payouts for equal pay, unfair dismissal, and religious and sexual orientation discrimination jumped as total employment tribunal payouts hit £32m in 2006-07, new statistics have revealed. A Freedom of Information Act request by the Sunday Telegr  More...
10 November 2008 10:10

Public appointments commissioner Janet Gaymer is to receive new powers to promote diversity after the number of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people in senior public roles dropped last year. Ministers have agreed to broaden her role afte  More...
28 October 2008 15:01

Better succession planning is needed to close the gender pay gap, employers have insisted. A report by the Institute of Economic Affairs last week found that the pay gap was the result of lifestyle choices rather than direct discrimination. The  More...
27 October 2008 08:02

Author: Jo Haigh Price: £12.99 Publisher: Piatkus Pages: 256 ISBN: 0749928581 A former Yorkshire Businesswoman of the Year, Haigh is well equipped to write this book, which she has subtitled A survival guide for women in business. She has called on a   More...
24 October 2008 16:01

HR chiefs have admitted that men are favoured over women for the profession's top jobs. The frank comments follow a Personnel Today poll of nearly 400 people, which revealed that more than half thought men were given an unfair advantage for the b  More...
20 October 2008 08:44

Our weekly HR news and analysis audio programme includes: 98% of those losing their jobs in the three months to August are men; Is HR partly to blame for some of the banks' troubles? And Personnel Today launches a new campaign to  More...
17 October 2008 15:50

A former Al Jazeera executive has lost her £1m tribunal case for unfair dismissal and discrimination against the TV channel. An employment tribunal ruled against Jo Burgin, employed as head of planning in the international news channel's Doha headqua  More...
16 October 2008 15:10

A lesbian couple who complained of being "humiliated" by sexual taunts from work colleagues were told that their suffering was nothing compared to that of the Jews, a tribunal has heard. Saleswomen Beth Moules and Sharleen Amos claimed they were tau  More...
09 October 2008 11:01

Women's minister Barbara Follett has called on the UK's top companies to appoint more women to their boards, after new figures revealed only a slight increase in the number of female FTSE directors. Initial findings from the 2008 Female FTSE report b  More...
02 October 2008 13:00

A shortage of male primary school teachers is leaving boys without vital role models for life, research has found. Almost half of 1,032 men polled by research specialist ICM for public body the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) said   More...
30 September 2008 10:40

Equality minister Harriet Harman has refused to rule out forcing private firms to publish their gender pay gaps. The Government Equalities Office last week launched the 'post your pay gap' scheme to encourage employers to work out the different wag  More...
26 September 2008 07:31

The Foreign Office, Home Office and the Ministry of Defence have some of the worst gender pay gaps in the government according to the central equalities department. In a drive to boost private sector employers to be transparent about the pay ga  More...
25 September 2008 07:34

Tradition Securities and Futures SA v X and Y FACTS The claimant, X, is a Muslim, of Moroccan origin, who is a French citizen. Y is her twin sister. They cannot be named because the tribunal made a restricted reporting order as this was a sex disc  More...
16 September 2008 11:09

The most senior Muslim woman in the Met is days away from lodging a claim of race discrimination against her employer, just days after Tarique Ghaffur has been 'relieved of his duties', it has emerged. Yasmin Rehman, a director of diversity within t  More...
10 September 2008 17:24

An employment tribunal which found a London lawyer had suffered sex discrimination and harassment has refused to reconsider its decision. Gill Switalksi, former legal head of F&C Asset Management, has had her £19m claim against her former employ  More...
15 August 2008 16:36

A high-profile employment tribunal case involving a former council HR chief has been adjourned until October. Janet Mason, former head of HR at Swale Borough Council in Kent, is claiming breach of contract, sex discrimination and unfair dismissal aga  More...
06 August 2008 10:58

HR news and analysis including: why some employers are disillusioned by the latest duties imposed on them when bidding for government contracts, including that they must publish diversity stats and enable staff the right to training new boss o  More...
18 July 2008 16:04