Doctors and nurses to be excluded from Tier 2 visa cap
NHS doctors and nurses will be excluded from restrictions to the number of visas granted to skilled non-EU migrant workers,...
Union wins go ahead for Deliveroo collective bargaining case
A High Court judge today granted permission for Deliveroo couriers to challenge a previous ruling that they could not be...
Graduate recruitment: what should you pay the class of 2018?
What starting salary is your organisation offering to graduate recruits in 2018? As the class of 2018 joins the labour...
Civil Service employment surges as Brexit looms closer
Office for National Statistics figures released this week show that there were 11,000 more civil service posts in March this...
Employee benefits: don’t get caught out when submitting HMRC forms
Employers who paid employee expenses or benefits during the 2017/18 tax year have until 6 July to submit their paperwork...
Apprenticeship starts continue to fall a year after levy introduced
There has been a steady decline in the number of apprenticeships begun after the apprenticeship levy was introduced last year....
A quarter of new fathers unable to claim statutory paternity pay
One in four (23%) men who became a father last year were not eligible to receive statutory paternity pay.
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Taxes and the gig economy: what should employers expect?
The Supreme Court this week deemed a former Pimlico plumber a worker for employment rights purposes, even though he was...
How to kick off the World Cup without an own goal
With four weeks of World Cup football matches about to kick off, what do employers need to be wary of,...
Pimlico Plumbers worker wins Supreme Court battle
In a key gig economy case decision, the Supreme Court has decided that a plumber who brought a case against...
Consultation on corporate governance for private firms launched
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published a consultation on corporate governance for large private companies, which aims to address...
Home secretary to propose universal immigration system after Brexit
Home secretary Sajid Javid has reportedly “torn up” plans to offer European migrants preferential access to the UK after its...
Executive pay ratio regulations come before parliament
New laws requiring certain companies to publish the pay ratio between bosses and workers will be laid out in parliament...
Recruiting now
Gender pay gap reporting

Gender pay gap: PwC bans male-only candidate shortlists
Accountancy giant PwC will no longer allow shortlists of candidates for any jobs in the UK that consist only of...

Government reveals “pitiful” FTSE 350 excuses for lack of gender diversity
The Government has revealed what it described as the “worst” explanations FTSE 350 chairs and CEOs have given for a...

Jeremy Hunt vows to close NHS doctors gender pay gap
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched a review into how NHS doctors are paid in a bid to close the...
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

Top 10 HR questions May 2018: GDPR special category data
Many HR professionals will have spent months preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Now it is finally in...

Five policies HR needs to revise ahead of the GDPR
With Friday’s GDPR deadline looming, employers have undoubtedly been spending the last few weeks reviewing the data they store about...

GDPR and payroll: 10 points to consider on personal data
Handling payroll by its very nature requires processing a lot of personal data on employees. What actions do HR and...
Brexit

Civil Service employment surges as Brexit looms closer
Office for National Statistics figures released this week show that there were 11,000 more civil service posts in March this...

Home secretary to propose universal immigration system after Brexit
Home secretary Sajid Javid has reportedly “torn up” plans to offer European migrants preferential access to the UK after its...

EU workers posted abroad to be entitled to local pay rates
Workers posted to another EU country will be entitled to the same rate of pay and working conditions as their...
Apprenticeship levy

Apprenticeship starts continue to fall a year after levy introduced
There has been a steady decline in the number of apprenticeships begun after the apprenticeship levy was introduced last year....

Manufacturers call for more time to use apprenticeship levy funds
The Government should extend the timeframe employers have to spend their apprenticeship levy funds from 24 to 48 months –...

Apprenticeship starts fall by a quarter in six months
The number of people beginning an apprenticeship fell by almost a quarter (24%) in the first six months of the...
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Wellbeing

Five ways to support employees during Ramadan
As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan draws to a close this week, Ayesha Salahuddin from PWC looks at how...

Two in five GPs plan to quit by 2022 amid workload concerns
Two in five GPs in England plan to leave the profession in the next five years, as more than 90%...

How HR can help stressed employees cope
With Mental Health Awareness Week putting stress in the spotlight, HR teams are reminded of how they can play an...
National living wage

Carphone Warehouse closes stores as Pret staff get £1000 bonus
Carphone Warehouse is to close 92 stores after the retailer became the latest to issue a profit warning, amid continuing...

MPs press for action over Sainsbury’s pay and contract review
Prime Minister Theresa May has been urged to take action over an “array of deplorable decisions” that MPs say will...

More than 200,000 workers to get back pay after NMW investigations
HM Revenue and Customs has secured back pay for more than 200,000 workers who did not receive the minimum wage,...
Webinars

Seven ways video can transform your company culture (webinar)
Wednesday 27 June 2018, 16:00 BST
While the use of online video outside the workplace continues to rise, many businesses...

AI’s impact on recruitment, HR and the workforce (webinar)
Wednesday 20 June 2018, 14:00 BST
Artificial intelligence promises the potential to revolutionise almost every aspect of the way we...

Webinar: Closing the gender pay gap
ON-DEMAND | In XpertHR's 60-minute webinar Naeema Choudry, a partner at Eversheds Sutherland, and Anne Hurst, a senior diversity and inclusion specialist at PwC LLP, ...
The Personnel Today Awards 2017

Personnel Today Awards 2018 deadline extended
The deadline to enter the Personnel Today Awards 2018 has been extended until 22 June, giving you another two weeks...

Taking centre court: How HR director of the year Vicky Williams improved LTA’s game
As we launch the 2018 Personnel Today Awards, we profile some of the individuals and teams who were crowned the...

All set for the Personnel Today Awards 2018?
The Personnel Today Awards 2018 are unveiled today, celebrating the very best in HR. Is your HR team at the...
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Fit for Work

Fit for Work service scrapped in workplace health policy overhaul
The Government has scrapped its Fit for Work service, blaming “low referral rates”. The service will come to an end...

Fit for Work assessments to be scrapped
The Government has announced that Fit for Work assessment services will close next spring, following low referral rates.
Employers, employees...

Maintain employee wellbeing to reduce absence
PROMOTED| Our work and personal lives are merging increasingly in the modern world. Working 9–5 has become 24/7.
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

Employee benefits: don’t get caught out when submitting HMRC forms
Employers who paid employee expenses or benefits during the 2017/18 tax year have until 6 July to submit their paperwork...

Occupational health research round-up: May 2018
Hand hygiene and asthma control
A study of US nurses has discovered a link between the frequency of hand and...

How employers need to embrace flexible working to retain talent
With the UK on the brink of a skills shortage, employers need to embrace flexible working to retain talented staff...
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

Home secretary to propose universal immigration system after Brexit
Home secretary Sajid Javid has reportedly “torn up” plans to offer European migrants preferential access to the UK after its...

Tier 2 visa reforms: what would employers like to see?
With a review of the Tier 2 visa system for non-EU nationals promised by home secretary Sajid Javid, Rachel Harvey...

EU workers posted abroad to be entitled to local pay rates
Workers posted to another EU country will be entitled to the same rate of pay and working conditions as their...
- Let’s get physical: Why engaging employees means more than an email
PROMOTED | Engaging everyone in your organisation in your benefits offering is easy, surely? You send out a carefully .... Find out more - How having a dog-friendly office can help your business get ahead
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