How can HR prepare for changes to the whistleblowing regime?
Four-day working: ‘We need to start treating people like the adults they are’
Employer of record (EOR) provider Peak PEO has been moving to a four-day working week model since 2023 and introduced...
Why bosses must set pay independently
After a group of companies were fined for pay collusion, the CMA explains why it's important to take an independent approach to setting pay.
Employers’ duty of care: keeping workers safe in a heatwave
Employers should opt to make necessary reasonable adjustments for more vulnerable workers, for example to allowing employees to work from home or offer flexible working hours.
Agency workers
Healthdaq: Shaking up health and social care recruitment
Healthdaq CEO Stephen McLarnon talks about winning Excellence in Public Service Award in 2024 and his company's work reducing agency worker spend.
NHS England cuts agency spend by £1bn
The NHS in England spent £1bn less on agency staff during 2024-25, according to figures obtained by the Guardian newspaper....
Court of Appeal hears Ryanair pilot’s worker status case
Court of Appeal hears test case on the employment status of a Ryanair pilot that could have major implications for aviation and other sectors.
Absence
With HR absence rising, is your people team at risk of breaking?
When ‘the people team’ – HR – breaks, the whole business suffers. Tracey Paxton makes the case for why HR...
Cancer carers feel pressure to return to work early
Almost half of cancer carers (48%) say they felt pressure to return to work as soon as possible after taking...
Top 10 HR questions April 2025: increases to wages and tribunal awards
April saw increases in the potential compensation tribunals can award, including guidelines on 'injury to feelings' awards.
Performance management
Four-day working: ‘We need to start treating people like the adults they are’
Employer of record (EOR) provider Peak PEO has been moving to a four-day working week model since 2023 and introduced...
Workplace disputes: ‘Most employment tribunals could be avoided’
A radical departure from the adversarial approach of employers, employees, management and unions is needed – Pete Colby, Pragmatism.
One-third have witnessed substance abuse at work
One in three employees (34%) admit either to using or witnessing substance use or addictive behaviours during work hours, according...
Relationships at work
Worker Protection Act: Time for a ban on workplace relationships?
What do the new legal obligations under the Worker Protection Act mean for workplace relationships and policies around them?
BP staff must disclose colleague relationships
New policy requires staff to declare BP colleague relationships regardless of whether they feel there is a conflict of interest.
Former BP chief exec did not reveal colleague relationships
Bernard Looney is to be dismissed without notice and will not receive further salary or benefits, which would have amounted up to £32.4m.
Work-life balance
Four-day working: ‘We need to start treating people like the adults they are’
Employer of record (EOR) provider Peak PEO has been moving to a four-day working week model since 2023 and introduced...
UK engineering and manufacturing firms face hiring struggles
Six in 10 hiring managers in the UK manufacturing and engineering sector have struggled to hire in the past year,...
HSBC employees warned of office attendance link to pay
Staff at the finance giant have been warned via a memo that office attendance could lead to a pay cut via annual appraisals.
Workforce planning
Overseas dentists ‘working in McDonald’s’ due to backlog
Dentists from overseas are being forced to work in McDonald’s due to bureaucracy preventing them working in the UK.
Preparing for a new era of workforce planning (webinar)
ON-DEMAND | Watch our webinar to discover ways to prepare for a new era of workforce planning.
Succession planning now ‘more of a priority than AI and risk’
Compared with 2024, the number of directors that cited succession planning as a difficult issue to oversee has more than doubled in the US.