Swedish woman compensated after job interview handshake refusal
A Swedish Muslim woman has won compensation after her job interview with a translation company was swiftly ended when she...
Minister proposes military-style college for prison governors
Prisons minister Rory Stewart has called for military involvement in improving the leadership and management skills of prison governors, a...
More protections against “excessive” employee surveillance needed
Two-thirds of workers fear that workplace surveillance fuels distrust and could be used in a discriminatory way if left unregulated,...
Police chiefs commit to developing sexual harassment action plan
Police chiefs have vowed to address sexual harassment across the force after it emerged a high proportion of police officers...
How employers can get the best out of data scientists
HR is under pressure to attract the best data science talent so they can unlock valuable business insights. But it’s...
Rail unions attack Grayling over CPI pay deal suggestion
Rail unions have reacted angrily to transport secretary Chris Grayling’s assertion that costs in the rail industry – including pay...
Gig economy drivers on collision course with GDPR
Some of the major names in the development of the gig economy − such as Deliveroo, Pimlico Plumbers and Uber...
CEO pay rises by 11% creating ‘substantial’ pay gap
The average FTSE 100 CEO pay package increased by 11% between 2016 and 2017, while full-time workers saw only a...
Record fall in EU nationals employed in UK
The number of EU nationals working in the UK has fallen by a record amount, with 86,000 fewer EU workers...
Employers prefer apprenticeship experience over university degrees
As thousands of students receive their A-level results this week, employers have revealed that the experience gained in an apprenticeship...
Too much collaboration kills creativity
Researchers in the US have found that collaboration among teams is welcome but that it should be limited to achieve...
Schoolgirl awarded £16k in Pizza Hut sexual harassment case
A 17-year-old schoolgirl receptionist at a Pizza Hut Delivery branch in east London has been awarded £15,800 after winning a...
Employers report lack of candidates and pressure to increase wages
Two in five employers found it difficult to get the staff they needed over the past 12 months and have...
Gender pay gap reporting
Top law firm points to lack of clarity over including partners in gender pay sums
Leading UK-headquartered law firm Allen & Overy (A&O) has come under fire from MPs for failing to include £1.5m of...
Widen gender pay gap reporting to firms with over 50 staff, say MPs
The gender pay gap reporting requirement should be widened to include organisations that employ more than 50 people and the...
Women’s career development is as big a problem as the gender pay gap
It’s not the pay differential that really gets under the skin of female employees, it’s the persistent feeling that men...
Personnel Today turns 30
30 years in HR: How careers have changed and where they’re heading next (webinar)
ON-DEMAND | How are organisations changing and what does it mean for HR?
Personnel Today turns 30: How the new publication drove progress
Movers and shakers behind the first editions of Personnel Today in the late 1980s helped the profession to find its...
30 landmark employment law judgments
Since its first issue on 9 February 1988, Personnel Today has reported on a staggering number of developments in employment...
GDPR
Gig economy drivers on collision course with GDPR
Some of the major names in the development of the gig economy − such as Deliveroo, Pimlico Plumbers and Uber...
Top 10 HR questions July 2018 – workplace temperatures and holiday pay
We can’t be expected to work in this heat! This may have become a familiar complaint for employers to deal...
Top 10 HR questions June 2018: Sporting events and background checks
What kind of background checks can employers carry out before taking on a new employee, and has this been affected...
Brexit
‘No deal’ Brexit would have ‘catastrophic’ effect on health, warns BMA
The British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that a “no deal” Brexit would have a catastrophic impact on the nation’s...
Employers have not ‘bothered to find UK people to work’ – IDS
Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith has said a lot of employers have “not even bothered to try and...
Home Office publishes settlement scheme toolkit for employers
The Home Office has launched a toolkit that will help employers of EU citizens offer advice in how they can...
Apprenticeship levy
Employers prefer apprenticeship experience over university degrees
As thousands of students receive their A-level results this week, employers have revealed that the experience gained in an apprenticeship...
Remaining Carillion apprentices to be made redundant
Almost 350 apprentices employed by collapsed construction giant Carillion will be made redundant after alternative jobs for them were not...
Growing your business with apprenticeships (webinar)
ON DEMAND | Hiring an apprentice is a productive and efficient way for any business to cost-effectively recruit and upskill their workforce...
Wellbeing
Action to alleviate rail chaos under way as commuter stress levels soar
Northern rail has today reinstated 75% of the routes it had scrapped in the wake of botched timetable changes as,...
MPs call for maximum workplace temperature to be set
As the heatwave continues across the UK, MPs have urged the government to introduce a maximum workplace temperature – especially...
The heat is on: six summer employment issues
MPs on the House of Commons environmental audit committee have urged Public Health England to advise employers to allow flexible...
National living wage
Card Factory among minimum wage underpayment employers
Card Factory, Odeon & UCI Cinema Group and Wyevale Garden Centres have been named among 239 employers found to have...
MP to challenge ‘ageist’ national living wage in Commons
A Labour MP is urging the government to end the exclusion of under 25s from the national living wage after...
National living wage rises will hit head office, not shop floor
Rises in the national living wage will cause job losses at retail head offices, rather than in customer-facing roles, a...
Webinars
Growing your business with apprenticeships (webinar)
ON DEMAND | Hiring an apprentice is a productive and efficient way for any business to cost-effectively recruit and upskill their workforce...
Managing mental health in the workplace (webinar)
ON-DEMAND | It is important to have the strategies, tools and initiatives in place to promote good mental wellbeing...
Seven ways video can transform your company culture (webinar)
ON DEMAND | While the use of online video outside the workplace continues to rise, many businesses are not using video to its...
Fit for Work
Occupational health research round-up: August 2018
Fit notes “not implemented as intended”
The “fit note” was introduced in 2010 and was designed to radically change the...
Lessons from the rise and fall of Fit for Work
A final question – more statement really – to minister Sarah Newton at June’s Society and Faculty of Occupational Medicine...
Fit for work? How to get sedentary workers on their feet
Fit in 50 is a new booklet designed to offer practical and accessible exercises to get sedentary employers out of...
Shared parental leave
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...
Benefits
IOSH urges employers to get on their bikes and embrace cycle to work benefits
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has urged employers to encourage their staff to cycle to work on...
Supporting LGBT staff: Family-friendly leave for same-sex couples
When LGBT workers look to start a family, there are numerous rights and entitlements employers must be aware of. Hollie...
Let’s get physical: how employers can break down barriers to activity
Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign was founded to help women manage the fear of judgement that acts as a...
Opinion
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...
Global HR
Swedish woman compensated after job interview handshake refusal
A Swedish Muslim woman has won compensation after her job interview with a translation company was swiftly ended when she...
How smartphones can land employers in the dock
Smartphones are encouraging employees to exceed the number of hours they are contracted to work, which in some cases could...
High number of non-disclosure agreements signed by TfL leavers
More than 800 employees who left Transport for London in 2017-18 signed non-disclosure agreements, it has emerged, sparking sharp criticism
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