Nissan's HR director has hailed the value of Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs) after scooping the prize for Best Practice in Partnership Working at the scheme's inaugural awards. Danny Griffiths, Nissan's HR Director, told Personnel Today t  More...
04 July 2008 08:42

Awards recognising outstanding contributions made by employers and employees working with the Local Employment Partnership (LEP) were handed out to Tesco, Mariott Hotels and Debenhams this week. The inaugural awards ceremony acknowledged the har  More...
03 July 2008 10:56

The government's decision to ban employers from encouraging their staff to opt out of a workplace pension scheme has been branded self-serving. Pensions reform minister Mike O'Brien last week proposed an amendment to the Pensions Bill to stop employ  More...
30 June 2008 15:55

Calls for a formal timetable for the removal of the mandatory retirement age have come after a national survey found workers in the UK wanted to work longer. HSBC's Future of Retirement study, conducted by the Oxford Institute of Ageing (OIA), foun  More...
16 May 2008 11:00

Gordon Brown used the draft Queen's Speech to announce a new right to request time off work for training. Revealing his plans for the next parliament, Brown said every adult should have the right "to make the most of their potential". He sai  More...
14 May 2008 14:00

The number of adults participating in learning in the past year has fallen, according to research published to coincide with Adult Learners' Week. A survey by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) found that the proportion   More...
13 May 2008 10:00

Just what is the government's position on increasing workplace rights for temps and agency workers? Ministers will insist that the government is committed to finding a solution at European level through the Agency Workers Directive. But with negotia  More...
12 May 2008 10:00

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell has warned chief executives that good people management is vital to avoid disasters such as the Buncefield oil explosion. Purnell told high level delegates at a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) conference  More...
30 April 2008 12:30

Government departments are continuing to spend millions of pounds of public money on consultants for projects despite warnings over spiralling costs. Figures released by three of the largest Whitehall departments in response to a series of parliame  More...
16 April 2008 17:41

Immigration experts have told the government to accept defeat on changes to the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) and concentrate on getting its new points-based system right. The High Court last week ruled that the Home Office acted unlawful  More...
14 April 2008 08:12

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

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell has insisted that employers should keep faith with the government's employment ambitions despite the closure of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). He called on more firms to sign the Local Employment Par  More...
31 March 2008 09:00

Public sector workers are so unhappy with pay deals that strike action is more likely than ever. What does this mean for staff morale and retention, asks Ross Bentley? While the call to have more police on the streets is a common demand from the pub  More...
17 March 2008 16:20

The Department for Work and Pensions has insisted that the three-year pay award it has offered staff is a "good deal" - despite thousands walking out in protest today. Up to 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the de  More...
17 March 2008 15:04

More than 50 staff working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been convicted of fraud worth hundreds of thousands of pounds in the past four years. Figures released by the DWP revealed that fraud had cost the taxpayer £502,677 sin  More...
11 March 2008 11:24

After years of navel gazing, introspection and generally being roundly ignored by those at the top, it seems that HR's role as wallflower in the world of work is finally coming to an end. Following swiftly on the heels of last week's revelation that &  More...
03 March 2008 10:00

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will axe up to 12,000 posts over the next three years, the work and pensions secretary has said. It follows an announcement by James Purnell that the private and voluntary sectors will play a bigger role in   More...
29 February 2008 15:01

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell  promised a more employer-focused welfare-to-work system yesterday as he revealed how the new contracts would look. Purnell said that private and voluntary sector specialists would be encouraged to f  More...
29 February 2008 13:09

Unemployed 18-year-olds face losing their benefits if they do not undertake at least four weeks of full time work, government has announced. Recently appointed secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, told the House of Commons that   More...
19 February 2008 09:40

Royal Mail has signed a deal with the government to help make it easier for the organisation to employ disabled people. The Access to Work initiative currently helps thousands of workers and their employers to overcome barriers resulting from disa  More...
18 February 2008 11:00

Council houses could be allocated on the basis of applicants' commitment to make themselves more employable, the new housing minister Caroline Flint has hinted. Flint , who was employment minister until the recent Cabinet reshuffle, said yesterday   More...
05 February 2008 11:10

Entire families on benefits could be hauled in for employability 'makeovers' by private firms as the UK welfare reforms kick in. Welfare-to-work specialist A4e plans to use techniques developed in poor areas of Germany to boost the number of jobs it   More...
04 February 2008 08:43

New work and pensions secretary James Purnell has been backed to drive through the welfare reforms led by Peter Hain until his resignation last week. Sara McKee, group commercial director for private sector welfare-to-work provider A4e, said she was  More...
29 January 2008 15:17

News and analysis in the human resources sector including: if there is going to be a recession, how will it affect HR? KPMG merges its UK, Swiss and German operations - the start of a new trend? the NHS hands MP3 players out to staff in a mobile   More...
25 January 2008 13:18

The sudden resignation of Peter Hain yesterday has forced UK prime minister Gordon Brown to take swift action to reshuffle his cabinet. Brown moved quickly to replace Hain with James Purnell as work and pensions secretary, while Andy Burnham, f  More...
25 January 2008 13:04

Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has resigned after his deputy leader campaign donations were referred to the Met Police. Hain quit his job minutes after the Electoral Commission decided it would refer the late declaration of £103,000 of   More...
24 January 2008 13:47

Employers will not want to recruit people who are forced to work with them, the TUC has argued in response to the Conservative 'workfare' proposals. Tory leader David Cameron yesterday unveiled a series of measures he claimed would get the long-ter  More...
09 January 2008 15:30

Conservative Party leader David Cameron has unveiled a series of measures which, he claims, will get the long-term unemployed back into work. The Opposition leader insisted that work was the best way out of poverty, as he defended Conservative propo  More...
08 January 2008 14:20

Individuals must take "personal responsibility" by saving for later life as part of a renewed social contract designed to avoid the nightmare of a pensions crisis in years to come, work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has warned. Speaking a  More...
07 January 2008 12:26

The government has defended its target of implementing personal pension schemes in April 2012, despite comments from the chief executive of the new delivery body suggesting that the plans may be delayed. Tim Jones, chief executive of the Personal Ac  More...
07 January 2008 11:30

Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has insisted that Jobcentre Plus is at the centre of a flagship scheme to get unemployed people into work in 2008. Despite his recent insistence of the need to get specialist private companies involved   More...
02 January 2008 11:29

Workers who lost their pensions when their employers went out of business between January 1997 and April 2005 will receive 90% of their value, the government has announced. Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain today unveiled a £2.9bn rescue sche  More...
17 December 2007 16:07

The government has confirmed its shake-up of the current system of benefits and jobseeker support, with the bulk of the measures taking effect from next year and 2009. Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain revealed reforms that aim to move h  More...
14 December 2007 07:47

The government has revealed the 20 commissioners who will be members of the new UK Commission for Employment and Skills (CES). The members include a broad range of representation from the private, public and third sectors, and from trade unions. Th  More...
11 December 2007 13:00

Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has admitted that the disabled workers whose jobs he saved still face an uncertain future. Hain told Personnel Today that keeping 55 of Remploy's 83 factories open presented a major challenge for the publi  More...
11 December 2007 09:00

Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has ruled out a Bill Clinton-style welfare system that stops people's benefits after two years out of work. Hain said the government was not prepared to go this far as it reformed the welfare system.   More...
07 December 2007 10:00

The government has assured employers they will not be hit in the pocket or lose staff despite plans to give all adults a legal right to training. Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain and skills secretary John Denham last week revealed that fre  More...
04 December 2007 07:32

Through numerous welfare-to-work initiatives, such as New Deal schemes and Employment Zones, private and voluntary sector organisations have, for years, been involved in helping the long-term jobless back to work. But the scale and scope  More...
03 December 2007 08:00

The increased use of private sector firms to get unemployed people back into work has been backed by a senior HR professional after a successful trial. Mark James, recruitment and development manager at retailer John Lewis's Sheffield store, said pr  More...
27 November 2007 08:10

Thousands of staff working for the DWP have voted for strike action in a dispute over low pay. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working in Jobcentres, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency voted 62% in favour of strike   More...
26 November 2007 15:01

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has appointed Chris Last, the human resources director of car giant Ford, as its next director-general of HR. Chris Last will replace the long-standing Kevin White, who has moved on to become director-gene  More...
26 November 2007 14:00

Major reforms of the benefit system are set to dramatically reduce the number of British workers on long-term sick leave, but experts are warning that the government must start working more closely with GPs to get people back in the workplace.   More...
26 November 2007 08:00

Mike O'Brien, minister for Pensions Reform, has appointed the Pensions Regulator to monitor personal accounts. The regulator for all work-based pension schemes will monitor personal accounts as a whole. It will also ensure that employers meet their  More...
19 November 2007 10:29

Specialist companies will be brought in to improve the quality of unemployed job applicants, the government is expected to announce this week. The CBI said it was confident that private sector firms would be allowed to take on some of the work carri  More...
19 November 2007 08:00

EU funding to help disadvantaged people in England into work or training has been slashed by half - despite the looming skills crisis. The European Social Fund (ESF) , set up 50 years ago to improve employment opportunities in the European Union  More...
30 October 2007 12:10

Remploy human resources chief Anne Jessopp has rubbished union claims that the troubled employer wants to pay disabled people to sit at home. Talks over Remploy's future broke down when unions failed to agree to a modernisation plan that would see 28  More...
29 October 2007 10:00

Louisa Peacock presents the latest human resources news. This week we bring you a taste of what’s making the headlines in HR, including a councillor who got into trouble over Christmas shopping, latest news from the disability employer Rem  More...
26 October 2007 14:16

More than half of UK employees would choose to remain opted in to personal accounts when they are introduced in 2012, under government proposals for pension's reform. A survey of more than 33,000 people conducted by financial services firm, Le  More...
15 October 2007 11:35

Much has been said about the whirlwind first 100 days Gordon Brown endured as prime minister. Just around the corner from Downing Street, the man he appointed to look after employment relations must be feeling pretty shell-shocked too. Minister for   More...
15 October 2007 08:00

Figures released by several government departments last week revealed millions of pounds of public money was being spent on first-class travel, employment tribunals, taxi fares, newspapers, magazines and flowers. Personnel Today reported that   More...
08 October 2007 14:25

Mike Berry hosts this week's programme which includes: News from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth The Commision for Racial Equality responds to claims of racial discrimination from its own staff And the CIPD's Linda Holbeche's pla  More...
28 September 2007 15:23

The Employability Skills programme has been launched today by employment minister Caroline Flint and skills minister David Lammy. The scheme is designed to help people improve their skills, find a job and progress at work. It is a joint initiative d  More...
01 August 2007 12:03

Government funding to encourage private sector companies to develop back-to-work schemes is only likely to rise by 25%, despite the recommendations of the Freud Review , Peter Hain has revealed. The new work and pensions secretary said that wi  More...
01 August 2007 00:00

The Pensions Act 2007 has now received Royal Assent, bringing into force many of the government's pensions reforms. As well as providing a boost for women and carers, the Act will restore a link between the basic state pension and earnings from   More...
31 July 2007 10:00

A senior government official has ruled out changing the Jobcentre Plus website to allow links to other public sector job sites. Sir Leigh Lewis , permanent secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, insisted the move was unnecess  More...
30 July 2007 11:58

A new “jobs pledge” aiming to find employment opportunities for 250,000 people currently on benefit is at the heart of a Green Paper published by prime minister Gordon Brown and work and pensions secretary Peter Hain . Major employers in both  More...
18 July 2007 15:15

The government should abolish all existing unemployment benefits in favour of a flat-rate payment, according to an independent thinktank. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) claims that a single benefit would make the system faire  More...
18 July 2007 10:40

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has warned the government against forcing the human resources function into a ‘corporate policeman’ role, following Gordon Brown’s draft legislative programme unveiled yesterday  More...
12 July 2007 10:30

  More than £80m worth of services to help carers back into employment could be generated by just £37m of government investment, a report released tomorrow (Wednesday) will claim. Analysis by the London School of Economics claims that carer vo  More...
10 July 2007 00:00

Alan Johnson has been appointed health secretary by prime minister Gordon Brown, following the resignation of Patricia Hewitt. The former postman moves across from his position as education secretary and was the runner-up in the Labour Party  More...
28 June 2007 14:00

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has created a task group to address the 175 million working days – and £13bn a year – lost due to sickness absence each year. The group, made up of government, customer, business and insurer rep  More...
19 June 2007 10:58

Workers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are likely to be facing more compulsory redundancies, a move likely to enrage trade unions. The DWP’s top civil servant Leigh Lewis said earlier this week the department had met its fin  More...
01 June 2007 15:09

The government’s proposed system of personal accounts will be run by trustees who would be legally obliged to handle the scheme’s assets in the best interests of members. The board of trustees will have responsibility for  More...
29 May 2007 10:30

The government has revealed that internal wranglings forced it to cancel talks with union officials over civil servant pay earlier this month. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was due to meet with the Public and Com  More...
14 May 2007 12:40

Birmingham City Council has been working with Fair Cities, an employer-driven skills programme , to recruit street cleaners from areas in the city where unemployment is high. Working in partnership with the HR department at Birmingham City   More...
04 May 2007 14:00

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has published a highly critical response to the Freud Report on welfare reform , which proposed the privatisation of employment services for the long term unemployed. The union said the rep  More...
26 April 2007 10:04

The government has announced a review of pension scheme assets held by employers who have gone bankrupt . The focus of the review will be on whether better use could be made of the remaining assets within the failed pension schemes that have qu  More...
30 March 2007 10:06

Childcare must become more affordable and reliable before lone parents are forced back into work, campaigners have warned. The government announced a new strategy to tackle child poverty through the labour markets on 27 March. It pledged more mon  More...
29 March 2007 10:08

A radical review of the welfare system carried out by David Freud has suggested greater use of the private and voluntary sector to help benefit claimants. The recommendations in Freud’s report, Reducing Dependency, Increasing Opportunity  More...
05 March 2007 12:01

The first in a series of events  that aims to develop a framework for employers to ensure their workplaces are healthy and efficient was held on 27 February. The seminar, hosted by the Work Foundation , is the first of four on the sa  More...
28 February 2007 09:39

The Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) has suffered another dismal set of results in its annual employee survey. The poll, completed by almost 70,000 workers, revealed a deep sense of dissatisfaction and job insecurity at the beleaguered gover  More...
31 January 2007 08:00

Government departments have been accused of "a shocking level of hypocrisy "  over ageism after claims that civil servants could be retired against their will. The charity Age Concern said it had uncovered information showing that  More...
24 January 2007 08:00

Unemployment fell by 29,000 in the three months to November 2006, according to the Office of National Statistics . The unemployment rate was down 0.1 percentage points to 5.5% over the last quarter, up 0.4 percentage points from the same time la  More...
18 January 2007 10:36

Jobseekers who fail to turn up for interviews to help them find work cost taxpayers at least £16m a year, an official report   has revealed. About 1.8 million appointments with Jobcentre Plus advisers were missed last year, according to the repo  More...
30 November 2006 10:16

More than half a million people who were entitled to claim jobseekers allowance failed to do so in 2004-05, according to the latest government statistics . Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions showed that there was some evidence o  More...
27 October 2006 10:03

One in 12 men intend to turn to their partners rather than their employers or the state for their retirement income, a survey showed. Research by financial services provider Zurich showed the number of people depending on their employer or the go  More...
23 October 2006 15:00

Bupa Hospitals has backed the government's bid to get long-term incapacity benefit claimants back to work. The business has recruited five incapacity benefit claimants through the Go Forward scheme, a government-backed initiative aimed at getting t  More...
19 October 2006 11:39

Lone parents will get an extra £20 a week on top of their benefits if they take active steps towards getting work under a pilot scheme being introduced by the government next year. Minister for employment and welfare reform Jim Murphy said the  More...
12 October 2006 13:27

UK companies remain committed to providing pensions for staff despite the continuing high costs, according to a major new survey published today by the CBI and Mercer Human Resource Consulting  More...
17 July 2006 10:40

Education and skills secretary Alan Johnson has announced that the Mayor of London will lead a new skills and employment board to drive forward London's continuing economic growth.  More...
13 July 2006 14:21

Staff cuts at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) will not hinder the quality of frontline services, according to work and pensions secretary John Hutton.  More...
12 July 2006 08:04

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has raised the prospect of more strikes in Whitehall departments with the demand of a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies  More...
07 June 2006 15:41

The BBC has reported government sources suggestng that the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer are nearing agreement on raising the state retirement age and re-linking pensions to earnings  More...
12 May 2006 09:42

Most employers forced to join the proposed National Pensions Saving Scheme (NPSS) will need financial aid from the government to kick-start the project, according to a leading business group  More...
09 May 2006 09:01

PCS and Department of Work and Pensions fail to see eye to eye over extent of disruption.  More...
03 May 2006 09:28

Public sector given split deadline to work smarter.  More...
06 April 2006 09:02

Nine out of 10 firms have shunned government plans to encourage flexible retirement, according to a new report  More...
04 April 2006 09:07

The TUC has reiterated its call for the government to adopt the proposals of the Pensions Commission, after research revealed more than four in 10 adults in the UK have no pensions savings  More...
29 March 2006 08:41

Managers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are operating under such huge political pressures that the "catastrophic failure" in implementing its efficiency programme last year was inevitable, according to public sector consultancy, Governetz.  More...
28 March 2006 00:00

The government's main argument for scrapping the right of local government workers to claim full pension benefits at 60 has been called into question by legal experts  More...
21 March 2006 08:09

Report finds government department guilty of maladministration.  More...
15 March 2006 10:02

Employers will be keeping a close eye on a test case to be heard by the House of Lords today which could lead to part-time workers obtaining access to occupational pension schemes  More...
15 February 2006 09:02

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber has labelled business chiefs who criticised the government for allowing public sector workers to claim their pensions at 60 as "hypocrites"  More...
14 February 2006 10:45

Employers that exclude new recruits from final salary pension schemes and offer inferior schemes instead could be sitting on a legal 'volcano', experts have warned  More...
14 February 2006 08:00

Lord Turner's proposals to solve the UK's looming pensions crisis is a "throwback to the Stalinist era", according to the head of the UK's pension fund lobby  More...
30 January 2006 15:37

Newly released welfare figures show Glasgow has the highest number of incapacity benefit claimants in the UK.  More...
24 January 2006 13:37

The government is drawing up controversial plans to switch work overseas, according to a leaked internal document.  More...
23 January 2006 10:20

Talks will begin tomorrow to try to avert a strike by thousands of workers in Jobcentres and benefit offices.  More...
09 January 2006 11:20

Work and pensions secretary John Hutton has written to the MPs whose constituencies contain the most incapacity benefit claimants to defend proposed reforms  More...
03 January 2006 09:25

Pensions minister Stephen Timms has challenged the pensions industry spell out how an industry-led alternative to Lord Turner's National Pensions Savings Scheme would work  More...
06 December 2005 08:24

Lord Turner, head of the Pensions Commission, has called on employers to get involved in a sensible debate over compulsory pension payments for staff, instead of simply branding it as unacceptable  More...
06 December 2005 07:48

Ballot papers for a two-day nationwide strike over government job cuts in the Department for Work and Pensions were sent out today to more than 90,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union.  More...
05 December 2005 09:37

People who give up work to care for relatives or friends are missing out on benefits worth nearly £750m.  More...
02 December 2005 10:26

Nine out of ten UK employers now feel they have a social responsibility to educate staff about their retirement provision, according to a newly-published audit of FTSE 350 firms  More...
29 November 2005 09:00

The director-general of the CBI has accused the government of trying to form a social partnership between ministers, unions and business that would push workplaces back to the 1970s.  More...
29 November 2005 00:00

Sir Digby Jones is angry. He was recently asked by trade and industry secretary, Alan Johnson, to get the CBI involved in implementing 67 promises the government made to unions at the so-called Warwick Agreement.  More...
29 November 2005 00:00

David Blunkett, who recently resigned as work and pensions secretary, is to go back to university to become a lecturer  More...
24 November 2005 11:34

“The very survival of the welfare state depends on more people [being] in work,” employment minister Margaret Hodge has told European health experts   More...
23 November 2005 12:15

Talks to break the deadlock in the long-running dispute over the pensions of two million local authority workers have broken up without agreement  More...
22 November 2005 10:29

The government is expected to try to end a long-running dispute over pensions reform which would affect two million local authority workers  More...
21 November 2005 09:00

The new work and pensions secretary has vowed to press ahead with the government's planned overhaul of the benefits system.   More...
14 November 2005 11:20

Opportunity for HR to have its say on the regulations governing the Pension Protection Fund.  More...
09 November 2005 10:00

New pensions minister vows to focus on welfare reform.  More...
08 November 2005 09:20

The pension system must be reorganised so carers and people looking after children do not miss out, the Equal Opportunities Commission has said  More...
07 November 2005 10:36

John Hutton has been announced as the new work and pensions secretary.  More...
02 November 2005 15:58

Department for Work and Pensions secretary, David Blunkett, has resigned from the Cabinet, telling Tony Blair that his position had become "untenable"  More...
02 November 2005 11:33

Lone parents must attend quarterly work-focused interviews to help them keep in touch with the world of work.  More...
31 October 2005 10:02

The Jobcentre network could outsource the majority of its employment services to the voluntary and private sector, according to the minister for work.  More...
20 October 2005 14:03

Unions and the government have reached agreement on public sector pensions.  More...
18 October 2005 13:52

The Department for Work and Pensions has announced the appointment of Lesley Strathie as chief executive of Jobcentre Plus  More...
13 October 2005 14:53

GPs and the Health and Safety Executive must work with employers to get more people off benefits and back into work, according to the CBI  More...
11 October 2005 10:56

Going out to work cures stress and depression much more effectively than watching daytime TV at home, according to work and pensions secretary David Blunkett  More...
10 October 2005 12:03

Many of the government's New Deal job training programmes have effectively shut down in London and the north-east following a series of budget cuts  More...
27 September 2005 11:52

The Departments for Work and Pensions and Health are to jointly appoint a national director to focus on the health and well being of people of working age  More...
27 September 2005 09:00

A non-means tested pension for all would reduce pensioner povert, and would be fairer, according to a report.  More...
23 September 2005 10:15

Staff in Jobcentres, benefit, pension and child support offices in London have voted to strike in a dispute over job cuts and deteriorating services.  More...
22 September 2005 09:30

Work and pensions secretary David Blunkett has announced a new Office for Disability Issues to tackle disability discrimination.  More...
21 September 2005 08:15

The retirement age for people aged 40 or younger could be raised to 67 to tackle the pensions crisis, the Work and Pensions Secretary indicated yesterday.  More...
19 September 2005 11:31

The government is planning to privatise most services run by Jobcentre Plus, according to documents leaked to trade union leaders  More...
12 September 2005 10:45

UK unions have written to the minister for work and pensions demanding more rights for workers.  More...
09 September 2005 17:13

The government has been urged to do more to change ingrained employer attitudes about recruiting ex-offenders and other 'core jobless' groups. The call follows research which revealed that more than 60% of employers deliberately exclude these groups,   More...
06 September 2005 00:00

The subject of employing so-called 'core jobless' people is always an emotive one. There is still extreme reluctance among organisations to recruit people who have done something bad in the past, and it is becoming far harder for people to shake off thei  More...
06 September 2005 00:00

Ballot papers for a one-day London wide strike to resist job cuts in the DWP were sent out today to members of the Public and Commercial Services Union   More...
05 September 2005 07:00

Pensions trustees who have not yet submitted information to the government's £400m Financial Assistance Scheme now have six months left to apply  More...
02 September 2005 07:00

More than 60% of employers would not employ anyone with a criminal record, a history of drug or alcohol problems or long-term sickness  More...
31 August 2005 08:00

People who are off sick with depression are to be forced back to work by the government which claims they are depressed because they have no jobs.   More...
22 August 2005 11:20

The government is still keeping the option of a flat-rate pension scheme despite reports to the contrary appearing in the national press.  More...
18 August 2005 15:02

Despite being encouraged to include pensions details in job ads, 94% fail to do so, according to the TUC.  More...
18 August 2005 10:00

Survey reveals substantial disappointment with accuracy and standards of service   More...
02 August 2005 08:00

Minster sets out fast track timetable for pensions reform   More...
01 August 2005 11:30

Proposed changes to the way sick notes are issued have been welcomed by employment law experts.  More...
28 July 2005 14:30

Raising the state pension age is vital, but people do not believe that they are likely to live longer than their parents   More...
25 July 2005 08:00

DWP lays on helpline and conselling for its employees and other civil servants   More...
20 July 2005 12:00

Pensions deficits have fallen but experts warn it will still take years to clear shortfalls  More...
19 July 2005 08:00

Jobcentre staff will be on hand at surgeries to help the long-term sick back to work   More...
18 July 2005 11:20

A higher retirement age is necessary to fund state pensions   More...
18 July 2005 11:15

The CBI has welcomed the draft legislation on age discrimination, but still has concerns over length- of-service rewards.  More...
15 July 2005 11:07

The number of jobless people in the UK is continuing to fall, yet more people claim unemployment benefits, official figures show.   More...
13 July 2005 12:40

Yet again, pensions are in the news. The government proposes introducing consultation obligations for both occupational and personal pension schemes. These force employers to highlight key issues and consult before making major changes to pension schemes  More...
12 July 2005 00:00

Blunkett sets agenda for UK's presidency of EU with call for workplace reform.  More...
07 July 2005 11:25

The new pensions regulator has threatened companies with top-up liabilities if they are not open about schemes in trouble.   More...
05 July 2005 14:46

Ross Wigham reports on the latest legislation to divide the HR profession  More...
05 July 2005 11:29

A leading disability charity says discrimination must end if the government is to meet its incapacity benefit targets.   More...
28 June 2005 10:00

A dedicated insurance fund should be set up to encourage and support businesses to employ homeless people, according to think-tank Demos and homelessness charity Crisis  More...
24 June 2005 10:45

First they lost the bowler hats, and now it’s the ties.   More...
21 June 2005 11:35

The government has denied reports that it would opt for an outright ban on smoking in public places  More...
20 June 2005 11:30

The government has given its clearest hint yet that all UK workers should be automatically included in company pension schemes.  More...
20 June 2005 10:50

Work and pensions minister criticised after she intimated that former MG Rover employees could work for Tesco  More...
17 June 2005 10:00

Employers are finding vacancies harder to fill than ever. Government figures show there were 635,900 unfilled vacancies in the quarter to April 2005, up 7,500 (1.2%) on the same period last year.  More...
15 June 2005 12:00

Pensioners today are enjoying a retirement that is better than ever before, according to the chairman of the Pensions Commission. Adair Turner, who's report into how to solve the UK's looming pensions crisis comes out in the autumn, told the Times n  More...
14 June 2005 15:28

The government has pledged to help employers and the medical profession work together and help disabled people to return to work.  More...
14 June 2005 14:00

As senior government figures launched the National Pensions Debate only 40 members of the public turned up to join in  More...
10 June 2005 07:00

A long-running dispute at the Department for Work and Pensions looks set to be rekindled,  More...
07 June 2005 01:00

Kevin White, HR director at the Department of Work and Pensions, has faced some difficult times over the past few years. He talks exclusively to Mike Berry about those challenges.  More...
31 May 2005 10:00

MP committee slams lack of people measures in ageing workforce job scheme.  More...
25 May 2005 07:30

Graduates might have to wait until they are 70 before drawing a state pension, but lower-paid workers could still retire on a full pension at 65  More...
23 May 2005 10:00

Having worked their socks off during the election campaign, MPs are off for a well-earned 80-day rest.  More...
23 May 2005 08:00