Personnel Today Awards 2018: The Film

 
Watch all the winners collect their Personnel Today Awards trophies and find out what it’s like to be recognised...

Personnel Today Awards 2018 winners: Morecambe Bay Hospitals take top trophy

UHMBT scooped the "best of the best" award at the 2018 Personnel Today...

The going is good for William Hill’s HR Team of the Year

William Hill took first place in the Personnel Today Awards 2018 race for HR Team of the Year. in recognition...

Millions of EU citizens can apply for settled status for free

Millions of EU citizens can now apply for “settled status” in the UK as the government launched the final phase...

Theresa May could back worker protections to secure Brexit deal

Theresa May could decide to boost workers’ rights in a bid to win Labour support for her Brexit deal.

Brexit...

Nine New Year’s resolutions for HR

You may be eating more healthily, exercising more or doing dry January, but for HR professionals returning to work, legal...

Nine New Year’s resolutions for HR

You may be eating more healthily, exercising more or doing dry January, but for HR professionals returning to work, legal...

A third of HR teams not deleting expired personal data

A third of HR teams have admitted breaching the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing to delete personal data...

GDPR: Compliance cheat sheet for HR departments

HR can play an important part in ensuring compliance with the GDPR, helping to avoid thousands of pounds in fines...

More than nine in 10 want more flexibility on apprenticeship spending

Nine out of 10 (92%) employers want more flexibility in how they can spend their apprenticeship levy allowance, with some...

Manufacturers favour apprentices over graduates, says EEF

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What can employers spend apprenticeship levy funding on? 

Employers now favour employing apprenticeships over graduates, a...

Young people least likely to value apprenticeships

People under the age of 25 are least likely to see the value in apprenticeships, according to research from the...

Government rejects call to lower gender pay gap reporting threshold

MPs have accused the government of being too “timid” to hold businesses to account for their gender pay gaps after...

Gender pay gap reporting 2019: Only half of employers are improving

With less than three months left for large employers to publish their second tranche of gender pay gap data, Jo...

MPs want tougher reporting requirements on gender, ethnicity and executive pay

More than two-thirds of MPs believe that reporting requirements on gender, ethnicity and executive pay are a “good start”, but...

Financial services stress levels at highest since crash

The number of stress-related absences in financial services is higher now than in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial...

Which HR metrics will matter in 2019?

With data and analytics still at the top of the HR agenda for 2019, which are the key metrics HR...

One in four younger employees goes into work feeling drunk

One in four workers between the ages of 18 and 34 has gone to work still feeling drunk after the...

Employee engagement: the importance of recognition (webinar)

Recognition is closely associated with employee engagement, and a lack of recognition can have a detrimental impact on the workforce....

One-HR employment law review (webinar)

Last chance to book your place: 6 December 2018 at 2pm. Barrister Kevin Charles scrutinises the latest developments in employment law including whistleblowing, minimum wage and more...

Breaking the mental health stigma (webinar)

The business case for a mentally and emotionally healthy workplace is compelling, but how do you create that environment? One...

Shared parental leave: enhanced pay is key to take-up

Employers that enhance shared parental pay are twice as likely to receive shared parental leave requests as those who offer...

Shared parental leave: what impact has it had?

What impact has shared parental leave had on your organisation over the past year? XpertHR is conducting a survey of...

Budget 2016: shared grandparental leave proposals to be unveiled in May

The first consultation on the extension of shared parental leave to grandparents will be launched in May, Chancellor George Osborne...

Flexible working has plateaued, study finds

The number of people using flexible working arrangements has flatlined since 2010, despite the right to request flexibility being extended...

Employee engagement: the importance of recognition (webinar)

Recognition is closely associated with employee engagement, and a lack of recognition can have a detrimental impact on the workforce....

Sharp rise in pension auto-enrolment fines

The last financial year has seen a sharp rise in the number of businesses fined by the Pensions Regulator for...

Why fatherhood holds the key to solving the gender pay gap

The introduction of gender pay gap reporting has shifted the onus of responsibility for solving the gender pay gap to...

Gender equality: ‘Men and women are not the same and won’t be’

Jordan Peterson has HR in his crosshairs with his strident criticism of efforts to close the gender pay gap and...

L&D needs to stop creating and start curating

L&D is operating in a climate of rapid change. The demand is constantly put on us to be agile, to...

Employment study debunks migrant worker myth

Immigrants have been among the main beneficiaries of the employment boom but not at the expense of workers born in...

Ireland on track to end zero-hour contracts

The Irish government has said it will end most zero-hour contracts in the country by summer as its Employment (Miscellaneous...

Visa applications for non-EU nationals: What HR needs to know

As HR professionals try to grapple with the settled status pilot scheme for EU permanent residence applications, there is now...