Six out of 10 business leaders in London fear the city's competitiveness is under threat - double the number of a year ago - research has revealed. The poll of 118 senior executives found the credit crunch and poorly-handled tax reforms had badly d  More...
19 June 2008 08:38

Below-inflation pay awards are now a reality for workers in the private and public sectors, new research has found. Figures from benchmarking data company Industrial Relations Services (IRS) have found that just 6.1% of pay awards are worth the same  More...
17 June 2008 12:13

More than 200,000 people will lose their jobs by the end of 2009 as the economy slows markedly, the CBI has warned. The quarterly CBI forecast figures have predicted the number of people out of work will rise to a ten-year high of 1.89m by the end   More...
16 June 2008 14:35

When companies go bust, is there anything that HR departments can do to ease the pain? My first job was making books at a factory in Frome. Twenty years on, the BBC reports that the very firm, Butler and Tanner, is "history" and that nearly 287 staf  More...
09 June 2008 00:00

Blame has got a bad name. But if HR wants to demonstrate its value, it really ought to start pointing the finger. As Sir Alan Sugar prepares to point the finger for the last time in the current series of The Apprentice , struggling to make a decisio  More...
09 June 2008 00:00

Failing NHS managers may be replaced by private sector bosses in a crackdown by the government announced today. Health minister Ben Bradshaw this morning published a policy document aimed at identifying and improving poorly performing NHS trusts.   More...
04 June 2008 16:14

International recruitment companies Randstad and Vedior have merged, creating the world's second largest HR services company. The new company will employ 34,000 people worldwide and generate estimated annual revenues of £14bn. In the UK, Select Gr  More...
21 May 2008 11:46

Inflation targets set by prime minister Gordon Brown would force 60,000 jobs to be lost, according to a study released today. A report by professional services firm Ernst & Young's Item club used the Treasury model to forecast the performance o  More...
20 May 2008 15:13

Lack of communication with staff is preventing public sector employers from making their HR departments more efficient, the local government efficiency agency has admitted. Siobhan Coughlan, principal consultant at the Improvement and Development Age  More...
14 May 2008 14:30

We may be just four months in to 2008, but already there have been plenty of flashpoints for the HR profession. Whether it be skills, diversity, flexible working, temp rights or the interminable debate over HR's relevance to profit and loss accounts, th  More...
30 April 2008 14:27

HR news and analysis including: PwC report threatens future of HR - we bring you HR's reaction Senior police figures warn officers' workload has increased since alcohol licensing laws came into effect, because pubs and clubs are open longer into   More...
25 April 2008 15:27

Outsourcing firm LogicaCMG will shed 1,300 jobs, including 500 of its UK workforce, in an effort to cut administrative costs. Logica said some of its 30 UK offices would close with many back-office functions, including HR and finance, likely to   More...
23 April 2008 11:00

The effect of the credit crunch is beginning to have a real impact on the headcount of firms outside the financial sector, new research has revealed. A survey of finance directors at 100 listed and owner-managed firms, conducted by financial s  More...
22 April 2008 14:19

In the current financial climate, the attraction and retention of skilled employees is regarded as the pivotal source of competitive advantage for businesses, new research has suggested. A poll of nearly 200 senior executives of UK firms, conduct  More...
17 April 2008 12:10

Talking at the PricewaterhouseCoopers HR conference in Rome last month, Dave Ulrich defended his famous business partner model, and had some advice for HR professionals.  More...
15 April 2008 10:48

The credit crunch will claim 20,000 City jobs by the end of 2009, according to an economics think-tank. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) forecast that up to 11,000 jobs will be axed this year and a further 8,200 in 2009, w  More...
14 April 2008 14:03

Dame Carol Black, author of Working for a Healthier Tomorrow , talks to Noel O'Reilly about what her government - commissioned report means for employers. How could her proposals affect line managers? Should the health of an organisation's workf  More...
11 April 2008 10:02

The director-general of the British Retail Consortium has warned of potential cuts in training and recruitment in the retail sector, following a slow-down in consumer spending. In an interview with the Times yesterday, Stephen Robertson said tha  More...
08 April 2008 14:04

UK based recruitment firm Michael Page hinted at further signs of a slowdown in financial sector recruiting as the credit crunch continues to show its teeth. The group's comments were followed by a 3.5% fall in its share price yesterday, althou  More...
08 April 2008 11:08

HR chiefs told Personnel Today last week of their "disappointment" in the profession's inability to convince chief executives of the value the function adds to businesses, after a damning report from consultancy Pricewaterhouse Coopers, (PwC). Publ  More...
28 March 2008 08:41

Trade union Unite has called for the previous management team at Northern Rock to face investigation in the wake of a self-critical report into the crisis by the Financial Services Authority. The City watchdog conceded that it did not adequately scr  More...
27 March 2008 08:02

Marks & Spencer's (M&S) HR director has categorically denied there will be any job cuts despite the retailer experiencing falling sales. The company took one of the biggest hits of the high street spending crunch after revealing in January t  More...
25 February 2008 10:58

Northern Rock may have to make major changes to its HR policies to ensure the newly nationalised bank complies with public sector employment law, an expert has warned. HR professionals at Northern Rock face the sudden prospect of carrying out equal  More...
25 February 2008 10:53

UK industrial action during 2007 led to a loss of more than a million days, for only the second time in a decade, according to latest figures. Strikes led by public sector workers over below-inflation pay increases including Revenue & Customs sta  More...
18 February 2008 10:50

Employers are focusing on getting their staff to work harder in 2008, the findings of two surveys have revealed. A study of 2,033 employers, by recruitment firm Manpower, found that increasing workforce productivity was the top human rresources (HR)  More...
11 February 2008 10:45

The immediate future of 850 employees at mail order firm Empire Stores is uncertain. High street retailer Littlewoods has announced its intention to purchase Empire's debtor book. The move follows an initial announcement by Empire Stores' French-ow  More...
30 January 2008 09:00

In the current media frenzy over the threat of a recession, human resources (HR) must brace itself for redundancies in the coming months. But are we all over-reacting as suggested by our ranter ? Are we convincing ourselves of impending doom so that it  More...
28 January 2008 14:08

The media hype around the looming recession  merely serves to perpetuate the problem: businesses feel insecure and belts start to be tightened. However, while the economy is under increasing scrutiny, we are yet to experience a lull. In fact, sala  More...
28 January 2008 14:00

Public sector bashing has become widespread, now even its managers are joining in.  More...
28 January 2008 12:17

Marston's Pub Company will launch a training initiative to assist pub landlords and licensees with financial planning and target marketing in anticipation of a consumer spending slowdown in 2008. Marston's plans to run more than 500 training sessions  More...
10 January 2008 09:46

Employment benefits provider, Accor Services, has acquired a 62% stake in self-service online benefits specialist Motivano UK for an undisclosed sum. The current management of Motivano UK, which installs and operates self-service employee benefits   More...
10 January 2008 09:36

With 2008 set to be a big year for the profession, outsourcing will be high on every human resources director's list of things to do, according to Capita's managing director Wayne Story. Like global warming, falling house prices and blogging, HR out  More...
08 January 2008 08:00

A poll of 513 UK managers showed that while 39% think the loans crisis will damage their companies in 2008, 42% fear the effect of greater maternity and paternity leave. Maternity leave was extended to 52 weeks, with statutory pay for 39 weeks, for   More...
20 December 2007 11:35

A third of red tape will be cut by 2010, under plans unveiled by business secretary John Hutton yesterday. Fresh measures to slash 30% of the burden on businesses, revealed in government report Delivering Simplification Plans , included tak  More...
12 December 2007 15:08

Half of the UK's most improved city economies in the last decade, in terms of employment growth, are in the north, according to new research. Milton Keynes heads the list of UK town and cities recording the strongest employment growth, accordi  More...
10 December 2007 16:07

Northgate Information Solutions reported a 23% rise in half-year operating profit, aided by its acquisition of human resource services provider Arinso. The UK software group, which makes software for the public services and HR markets, recorded  More...
10 December 2007 14:01

Employers' lobbying body the EEF has appointed consultant Gilbert Toppin to its new chief executive role. Toppin joins the manufacturers' organisation from business services giant Deloitte, where he was chief operating officer for European consultin  More...
04 December 2007 10:30

The threat of mandatory skills training for employers has receded just a year after it was a key recommendation of the Leitch Review . Chris Humphries, chief executive of the Commission for Employment and Skills (CES), told Personnel Today that   More...
30 November 2007 16:45

More than 100 companies have signed up to the government's network of businesses dedicated to promoting sustainable travel. The National Business Travel Network was created by the Department for Transport and promotes sustainable travel plans as a  More...
27 November 2007 12:30

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

Marks & Spencer tops the list of companies with the best reputation, according to a survey of 1,960 consumers by the CBI. The high-street retailer gained almost twice as many mentions as the next highest, John Lewis Partnership, closely followed  More...
19 November 2007 12:37

This week we bring you a taste of what’s making the headlines in human resources, including: why children’s education might suffer as a result of local authorities sorting out equal pay deals latest news from equality experts on why race discr  More...
02 November 2007 14:47

Thousands of job cuts are expected in the UK's financial sector as a result of the volatile equity and credit markets, economists have warned. Up to 5,000 positions could be lost, along with annual bonuses in the wake of a turbulent time in London's  More...
24 August 2007 14:52

Business investment has seen a 0.8% rise in the second quarter of 2007, estimated to be 7.4% higher than the same period of last year. The Office for National Statistics' Business Investment survey said the quarterly rise is due to increased cap  More...
23 August 2007 17:05

Perhaps I can enlighten you with the background to Airwavespeak ( Personnel Today , 24 July). Following the introduction of the Airwave digital radio system, it was quickly apparent that the increased voice quality did not encourage accuracy, clarity,  More...
21 August 2007 00:00

The TUC has hit out at the "extreme" package of workplace proposals put forward by Conservative MP John Redwood's policy review group. The Economic Competitiveness Policy Group report has proposed a range of measures to boost the UK's economic perf  More...
20 August 2007 11:10

The number of unions protesting and threatening action against business decisions is on the increase, according to employment lawyers. News that super-union Unite is urging Sainsbury's shareholders to vote against the £10.6bn takeover by private equ  More...
20 August 2007 11:00

New financial figures show that Royal Mail has delivered an operating loss for the first time in six years. The worse-than-expected figures are likely to be used as ammunition in the postal conglomerate's ongoing battle with unions about pay and thou  More...
16 August 2007 15:47

Lloyds TSB is to offshore a further 210 UK jobs to India from October, it confirmed yesterday. The bank has decided to axe 100 permanent IT positions and stop using 110 temporary IT contractors following an internal review. The replacement jobs will  More...
10 August 2007 14:04

A deal on employment conditions for the London 2012 Olympic Games project has been ratified by construction unions, according to reports. Negotiations between the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and unions over the issue of direct employment have b  More...
09 August 2007 11:08

The July downturn in share prices has increased the deficit at the UK's largest 200 pension schemes - although 30% remain in surplus. The market fell so much on 26 July alone that it wiped £9bn off the balance sheets of the top 200 pension funds.   More...
31 July 2007 15:30

Former CBI chief Dibgy, Lord Jones of Birmingham, has admitted that his skills envoy job was only half finished when he left to become minister of trade promotion - but the government will not confirm whether the skills envoy role will continue. Jo  More...
23 July 2007 07:59

"Not another meeting!" has become a familiar corporate grumble. UK workers believe that more than one-third of meetings are not just unnecessary, but counter-productive, according to a new study by web conferencing company WebEx . Another repo  More...
17 July 2007 00:00

Visitors to the London 2012 Olympics will feel let down unless HR teams in hospitality turn the sector around. That was the warning given last week at an event aimed at improving perceptions of London ahead of the Games. Research has sho  More...
16 July 2007 00:00

Entrepreneurs are more interested in having fun than making money, a report has revealed. In the London School of Economics and Shell Livewire study, The Changing Face of UK Entrepreneurism , profit was found to no longer be   More...
12 July 2007 08:00

Representatives of trade unions and the private equity industry came face-to-face yesterday (Tuesday) in the first of a series of planned meetings. At the invitation of TUC general secretary Brendan Barber , union reps and the British Pr  More...
11 July 2007 11:50

Broadcasting trade union Bectu has warned of impending job losses at Virgin Media following speculation in the press that it is the target of a private equity buyout . The BBC reports that private-equity firm C  More...
03 July 2007 09:58

Up to 130,000 postal workers across the country went on strike today, in what is the first industrial action at Royal Mail for more than a decade. Members of the Communication Workers Union began a 24-hour walkout early this morning after talk  More...
29 June 2007 15:00

A rise in interest rates has heightened fears over job security, research has found. A survey conducted by Lloyds TSB , questioning 2,000 adults, found that less than two in 10 respondents felt more secure in work than they did a year ago. Half said  More...
28 June 2007 10:20

A government strategy to cut red-tape for front-line workers so public services can work more efficiently has been launched by Cabinet Office ministers Hilary Armstrong and Pat McFadden. The plan sets out how the government is going to   More...
25 June 2007 17:10

The UK’s opt-out on a charter of human and social rights, negotiated by Tony Blair at the European Council meeting which ended on Saturday 23 June, has been branded as “extremely disappointing” by the TUC. The deal was reac  More...
25 June 2007 16:15

The UK financial services industry creates employment for three million people, with nearly half a million in banks alone, according to new research. A report published by the British Bankers Association (BBA ) called Focus on Finance, found  More...
18 June 2007 17:25

The unanimous agreement that climate change must be tackled has been widely acclaimed as the biggest achievement of  G8 summit which ended on 8 June 2007. But it is not just the elite of the world’s leaders who see cutting carbon emissions as a pre  More...
11 June 2007 08:00

Employers are footing a £400m annual bill for their employees to make personal calls using company mobiles, according to a report. Research conducted by telecoms billings service Aurora Kendrick James , found that personal calls acco  More...
08 June 2007 14:00

Manufacturing and engineering employers' group the EEF has written to in-coming prime minister Gordon Brown expressing its concern over trade union pressure for higher temporary worker rights. The new 'super union' Unite and the TUC last   More...
08 June 2007 08:49

Utility giant Centrica is recoiling after its energy trading arm Accord Energy lost five senior executives - a fifth of its entire workforce - in a matter of weeks. The HR department at Accord Energy is now engaged in a major structural re  More...
07 June 2007 16:00

The TUC is calling on the government to introduce a set of measures to deal with ‘threats’ to the economy and workforce from the growth of private equity funded takeovers. In its submission to the Treasury Select Committee , the TUC said that  More...
24 May 2007 10:26

A “significant revamp” of the Regional  Development Agencies (RDA)   is needed to tackle poor economic performance outside the South East, an employers’ body has claimed. Manufacturers’ association the EEF  reported to the gover  More...
22 May 2007 15:04

The government is to target cheating employers with a new regime of fines if they pay below the national minimum wage. In a consultation, the government has proposed options including fixed penalty fines linked to the number of workers who are und  More...
17 May 2007 10:30

Eight out of 10 employers claim they are actively tackling pay gaps between men and women, research has found. A benchmarking survey conducted by Opportunity Now, a body that helps employers build workplace cultures that are inclusive to women , fo  More...
16 May 2007 10:30

Adding a dash of corporate social responsibility to training spices it up and makes it more meaningful. Karen Woolley, founder of training company Klic4Training, recalls the moment she came up with the idea for her business. Around four years ago,   More...
15 May 2007 00:00

Following a government initiative to get employees interested in all matters financial, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has suggested linking up with schemes already introduced by employers.  More...
08 May 2007 08:00

Almost nine out of 10 employers now provide staff with flexible working, according to a report by the British Chambers of Commerce   called Work and Life: How business is striking the right balance . This headline-grabbing finding may sound impres  More...
01 May 2007 08:00

A row over pay and cost cutting could lead to the first national postal strike for more than a decade, according to newspaper reports . The Communication Workers Union (CWU)  has threatened to ballot for industrial action after Royal Mail off  More...
27 April 2007 08:45

The medical and teaching professions top the list of preferred career choices British parents wish for their children, while construction employment trails in comparison, research has found. A survey conducted by ConstructionSkills , questioning 600  More...
26 April 2007 09:56

Alistair Darling, secretary of state for trade and industry , believes investment in skills and research and development has put the UK's largest companies at the top of the European league of wealth creation. The Department of Trade and Industry  More...
24 April 2007 08:38

Time is running out for British businesses to tackle the burgeoning skills famine threatening to blight the economy, UK skills envoy Sir Digby Jones has warned. Speaking at the British Chamber of Commerce annual conference earlier   More...
20 April 2007 15:50

I agree with the connection John Renz makes between equity and success (Letters, Personnel Today , 13 March). But his assertion that "the driver is profit" is precisely the short-term attitude that has undermined voluntary fair practice and has led to t  More...
17 April 2007 00:00

It seems as if hardly a week goes by without a report being published on carbon emissions, but one such report published last week introduces the idea of HR taking sole ownership of the issue within a company. Software provider Vizual’s white paper,   More...
03 April 2007 08:00

BP  has “strongly disagreed” with the findings of the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB) that it has an institutionalised culture of poor safety. The Chemical Safety Board has called for the oil giant to appoint a new safety director along with   More...
23 March 2007 09:17

Less than half of UK organisations are preparing for business disruption, despite fears of upheaval caused by extreme weather conditions and staff loss, research has revealed. The study of 1,257 public and private sector managers, by the Charte  More...
21 March 2007 12:14

Employers have again been warned to tighten their diversity practices after it emerged that Microsoft UK stopped using a supplier due to its poor policy on the issue. Dave Gartenberg, HR director at Microsoft UK, told Personnel Today that th  More...
20 March 2007 08:00

Construction union Ucatt has called on the government to use only direct employed labour for the Olympics rather than subcontractors or risk delays and spiralling costs. Culture secretary Tessa Jowell has said the cost of the Olympics has increa  More...
16 March 2007 13:00

Improving the productivity of healthcare workers is akin to tackling climate change, according to NHS Employers director Steve Barnett. With both issues, he said, everyone agrees something needs to be done, but the challenge was actually doing   More...
14 March 2007 11:32

A nationwide week of action against government plans to axe 2,500 post offices kicks off on Tuesday 20 February, with a demonstration in Westminster. The Future for our Post Office coalition will hold a mass rally in Central Hall at 1pm and l  More...
19 February 2007 16:03

The Trade and Industry Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into the impact on UK business of the accession of the 10 member states in 2004 and 2007. The committee will consider the following questions: Is the UK exploiting the   More...
09 February 2007 09:20

Plans to better engage NHS staff and empower them to lead reform of the health service have been outlined by the government. The plans follow a back-to-the-floor work-shadowing exercise conducted by health minister Andy Burnham throughout the s  More...
02 February 2007 09:41

Half of the UK's IT workers feel that adapting to Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista , will distract them from more important issues and 63% believe it will have a negative financial impact on their organisation. In a survey of 150 IT ma  More...
01 February 2007 08:01

Creating an open culture and complying with the law are equally important to employers when it comes to diversity training, according to research. One in three employers said they offered diversity training to improve the working environment and anot  More...
29 January 2007 16:30

Music Zone CD and DVD retailer is to cut about 800 jobs after struggling against increased competition from online retailers and supermarkets. Professional services firm Deloitte  announced that the Stockport-based company had no  More...
29 January 2007 10:42

Outsourcing firm Xchanging has completed the purchase of Xchanging HR Services, its jointly-owned company, from defence and aerospace giant BAE Systems. Xchanging HR Services was established in 2001, initially to provide HR suppo  More...
22 January 2007 15:15

The AA, Jaguar, Vodafone, Canon, Arup, Currys, Norwich Union, Woolworths and The Children's Trust are just some of the blue-chip organisations whose HR directors will be speaking at the HR Directors Business Summit later this month. Other speakers i  More...
02 January 2007 07:58

Training cuts have been so severe in the wake of the NHS financial crisis that staff at a single health authority lost out on £20m worth of training and development last year, it has emerged. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight strategic health au  More...
02 January 2007 07:04

About 600 jobs are at risk in South Wales after Ferrari’s food company announced it had gone into administration. The bakery, which has 60 shops in Wales, said that lower sales and higher costs had forced the company to appoint administrators. A s  More...
21 December 2006 14:35

Gordon Brown has appointed former CBI chief, Sir Digby Jones, as his new 'skills envoy'. The chancellor used his pre-budget report to make the announcement as part of new drive to improve skills and training. Jones, 51, stood down as direc  More...
06 December 2006 16:05

Firms are less optimistic about their prospects than they were six months ago as rising costs significantly squeeze their profit margins, according to the latest CBI/RDA survey of Regional Economic Trends . Despite increases in orders, output, emp  More...
17 November 2006 10:10

Manufacturers have warned the government against imposing further tax increases in the chancellor's next pre-budget report. Manufacturing organisations will have to fork out an extra £11.9bn in taxation in 2008-09 than they did in 1996-97, according  More...
14 November 2006 14:14

The NHS is facing a £94m deficit by the end of the 2006-07 financial year, according to a forecast by the Department of Health (DoH). Hospitals and primary care trusts are estimated to have more than £1bn in debts already. The overall   More...
10 November 2006 09:09

Attempts to reach an agreement on Europe's working time directive have again failed following lengthy talks in Brussels yesterday between employment ministers. UK employers groups have welcomed the news, but the TUC said the failure to reach an agre  More...
08 November 2006 11:54

Businesses have spent £2bn more on research and development this year, according to figures published by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The DTI's 2006 R&D Scoreboard   showed investment in research and development at UK companies is   More...
30 October 2006 12:59

The City needs to encourage better business relations with China and India or risk losing its elite status as a financial hub, according to a report. The report by risk analysts Sami Consulting and Oxford Analytica found that London was not meeti  More...
25 October 2006 09:30

Spending on HR consultancy services for a new rural watchdog has breached the government’s budget by more than £63,000. Natural England – which combines the Countryside Agency and the Rural Development Service – confirmed more than £1.23  More...
16 October 2006 10:58

Higher corporation tax levels in the UK are forcing multinational firms to relocate elsewhere, according to the CBI. In a speech to the national media on his one hundredth day as director-general of the CBI, Richard Lambert lambasted the gove  More...
10 October 2006 12:22

The police should consider outsourcing more of its back office tasks to the private sector to help get more officers back onto the beat, according to the CBI. A report by the business lobby group claims thousands of officers could be freed up to poli  More...
06 October 2006 14:27

I would like to congratulate Personnel Today on exposing HR's most nagging paradox in your 5 September edition. On the one hand, I was heartened to see your no-nonsense exposure that as a profession we are facing a serious talent shortfall. Yes, we   More...
03 October 2006 00:00

Union demands being made at this year's Trades Union Congress would harm UK competitiveness and turn the clock back on improved workplace relations, according to the CBI. One of the biggest concerns arising out of the TUC agenda is the call for the ext  More...
11 September 2006 09:09

MPs to investigate impact of reforms on Civil Service.  More...
02 August 2006 11:21

London's Investors in People support agency defends the organisation against suggestions that it does not deliver commercial benefit  More...
26 July 2006 12:33

To take advantage of the booming market in trade with China schools and universities must be encouraged to add Chinese language and cultural studies to the curriculum, employers warn  More...
25 July 2006 09:47

Civil Service faces years of cost cutting.  More...
14 July 2006 08:59

Scottish employers are predicting a busy three months, according to the latest Employment Outlook Survey by recruitment company Manpower UK. They scored a net employment outlook (NEO) - the total number of employers looking to recruit, minus those expect  More...
11 July 2006 00:00

Europe is less optimistic about job prospects than the rest of the world, according to the Manpower figures. More than 49,000 employers across 25 countries gave their predictions for recruitment activity in the three months from July 2006. In  More...
11 July 2006 00:00

Retailer Morgan hit by downturn on the high street.  More...
30 June 2006 09:36

The government’s approach to public sector management is in dire need of an overhaul, according to a report from Lancaster University Management School.  More...
26 May 2006 12:15

A radical shake-up of the structure of the Civil Service would lead to more accountability and improve the performance of Whitehall departments, according to the conclusions of a year-long study.  More...
23 May 2006 08:00

Organisations are failing to keep pace with their customers' complaints, at a time when the volume is rising sharply, according to a study  More...
11 May 2006 15:53

Amended Bill will enable ministers to act to cut down bureaucracy.  More...
05 May 2006 10:54

BT chairman urges UK businesses to rethink strategy to be able to compete with "tiger economies".  More...
03 May 2006 13:11

The PricewaterhouseCoopers Business Insights survey findings will probably come as no surprise to many HR professionals  More...
02 May 2006 08:00

Health minister claims better management could reduce agency staff costs in NHS.  More...
28 April 2006 10:33

CBI report claims government is spending more than £100m that could go to front-line NHS services on delayed PFI projects.   More...
21 April 2006 09:03

The defecit in final salary pension schemes halved in the two months to March as share prices soared   More...
03 April 2006 13:51

 UK cities are becoming vibrant knowledge centres and driving economic growth, research from The Work Foundation consultancy has found  More...
03 April 2006 09:24

Alan Sugar threw former HR manager Jo Cameron out of The Apprentice last night  More...
30 March 2006 10:01

Contractors helping to build the new Wembley Stadium are to hold crucial talks to try to avoid workers being laid off. Steelworkers, scaffolders and welders were told on Monday they would be sent home next week unless subcontractors were paid. Un  More...
29 March 2006 11:47

The BBC has spent more than £4m art to decorate its London offices, while seeking to cut about 3,000 jobs as part of a drive to save £400m in costs, according to press reports.  More...
27 March 2006 14:25

BBC spreads news that new director-general of the CBI is former journalist.  More...
23 March 2006 09:24

A new report by the Institute of Directors (IoD) shows a surge in manufacturing productivity growth in recent years.   More...
13 March 2006 13:29

The manufacturing sector expects a significant increase in its recruitment activity for all employees over the next six months, with an RCI of 143, compared to 130 for the previous quarter. (RCI values over 100 indicate an increase in recruitment activit  More...
07 March 2006 08:00

Business confidence in the manufacturing and services sector has risen by more than 60% in comparison to last summer.  More...
07 March 2006 08:00

The UK's productivity performance continues to be lower than that of France and the US, official figures reveal.  More...
23 February 2006 17:00

Sir Alan Sugar attacks use of 'feminine' attribute as way to get on in business.  More...
21 February 2006 09:21

The government is failing to address poor management - a key factor behind the UK's woeful productivity performance - the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development warns.  More...
21 February 2006 09:03

The Tough Love survey of 800 HR professionals reveals that 96% of respondents have issues with poor performance, with 29% admitting that it is a major problem.  More...
15 February 2006 09:15

Thursday is day of woe for HR professionals.  More...
25 January 2006 13:00

UK slips back in European productivity stakes, as US romps ahead  More...
19 January 2006 08:00

The government will invite employers to get involved in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at a summit on 24 January.   More...
18 January 2006 08:48

HM Revenue and Customs has apologised to 10,000 employers after fining them at least £400 each by mistake because of a basic flaw in the design of automatic IT systems  More...
17 January 2006 12:25

Employers have been urged to "detox" their workplaces, reassess their policies and tackle any problematic issues  More...
04 January 2006 13:27

2006 could be the worst year for productivity growth since 1990, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)  More...
03 January 2006 10:28

CBI director general Digby Jones has urged firms to put a reassessment of business risk at the top of their list of New Year resolutions.   More...
03 January 2006 10:15

More than half of employers fail to address dead wood in their organisations, according to new research. The survey of 400 global organisations by consultancy firm Hay Group shows the public sector to be the worst culprit, with 62% of civil servants c  More...
07 December 2005 00:00

Despite concerns over red tape, the Labour employment agenda has largely benefited UK plc.   More...
15 November 2005 00:00

Companies are losing £50m a year as a result of corporate identity theft.  More...
14 November 2005 08:28

UK workers' fears for the security of their jobs are at their highest for a year.  More...
07 November 2005 08:25

The UK is one of the most productive countries in the world depending on which sector you work in, according to an international survey by the Institute for Employment Studies  More...
25 October 2005 14:00

The UK cannot hope to compete with the world's emerging economies and should consider opting out of the world competitiveness league tables, according to a leading academic  More...
11 October 2005 00:00

Productivity is growing at its slowest rate for 14 years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS)  More...
30 September 2005 16:00

Not employers, according to Labour backbenchers  More...
28 September 2005 07:00

More than three-quarters of small- and medium-sized firms in the UK have not reviewed their business processes since the July terror attacks, according to research.  More...
19 September 2005 14:55

A CBI survey has highlighted concerns over the rush to request flexible working.  More...
12 September 2005 10:31

Europe's productivity is lagging behind the US and Asia because inflexible labour laws are preventing companies restructuring and investing in new technologies, a report shows.  More...
07 September 2005 07:00

The cost of NHS managers has risen by £578m in two years, according to the Conservative party  More...
02 September 2005 14:45

Airport catering row could be resolved by voluntary redundancy plan.  More...
30 August 2005 09:50

The CBI has called on the government to honour its promise to improve the educational standards of school-leavers.  More...
22 August 2005 08:30

Poor management is to blame for poor productivity, according to a survey of HR professionals.  More...
19 August 2005 08:30

London has topped a poll of the world's top conference destinations.  More...
17 August 2005 09:00

FTSE 100 companies have bigger pensions deficits than their business couzins in the US.  More...
17 August 2005 08:30

The HR director at the Department of Health has accepted that not all hospital trusts will implement the Agenda for Change pay system by the September deadline.  More...
17 August 2005 08:00

Tackling barriers to employment and sustaining growth in productivity remain the top priorities for London, according to new analysis.  More...
09 August 2005 10:30

UK firms are being urged to conserve water.  More...
09 August 2005 09:38

Although finance workers enjoyed performance related bonuses up 3.75% in the nine months to May, few saw basic salaries increase