TUPE or not TUPE? NHS Trust did not unfairly dismiss workers
An employment tribunal has found that a hospital trust did not unfairly dismiss 13 maintenance workers because they had not...
Five reasons why you shouldn’t embark on HR Transformation
In the final part of our serialisation of her book, Lucy Adams looks at updating the HR IT system and...
Police forces should ‘positively discriminate’ to boost diversity
Police forces should be allowed to positively discriminate in favour of those from minority ethnic backgrounds in order to become...
Bank holidays: five things employers need to know
Most of the the UK has eight permanent bank holidays per year: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May...
NHS worker who reported suicidal thoughts was unfairly dismissed
An NHS ambulance technician who was threatened with legal action after he reported feeling suicidal was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal...
Third of mums using toilets to express milk at work
A third of breastfeeding mothers returning to work are being forced to use a toilet to express milk because of...
Cleaner unfairly dismissed for Topshop pay protest
A cleaner at Topshop’s flagship London store has won up to £75,000 after an employment tribunal found she had been...
Learning Technologies 2019: “Our job is to help people share”
Key topics at this year's Learning Technologies conference, which welcomed 8,000 delegates, included the importance of knowledge sharing...
Pay awards ahead of RPI for first time since 2016
Pay awards reached a 10-year high in the three months to the end of January, according to analysis by XpertHR,...
EU worker numbers continue to fall ahead of Brexit
With Brexit drawing closer, the number of EU nationals working in the UK fell by 61,000 in the last quarter...
Four in 10 companies have reported a wider gender pay gap
Analysis by the BBC has revealed that four in 10 private companies have reported wider gender pay gaps for 2018...
The Good Work Plan: how should employers prepare?
In December 2018, the government set out the reforms it planned to introduce as part of the Good Work Plan,...
How to take precautions to avoid a toxic work environment
Independent investigations into misconduct at both Amnesty International and Oxfam suggest that toxic workplace cultures can have serious consequences. What...
Personnel Today Awards 2018
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...
Brexit
Pay awards ahead of RPI for first time since 2016
Pay awards reached a 10-year high in the three months to the end of January, according to analysis by XpertHR,...
EU worker numbers continue to fall ahead of Brexit
With Brexit drawing closer, the number of EU nationals working in the UK fell by 61,000 in the last quarter...
Honda confirms 2021 closure of Swindon manufacturing plant
Honda has confirmed that it proposes to close its manufacturing plant in Swindon in 2021, with the loss of around...
GDPR
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...
Apprenticeship levy
Boost apprenticeship access for women to increase diversity
The government should remove any barriers preventing young women embarking on apprenticeships, according to a report published today by the...
Large employers fear inability to fill technical roles
Employers are becoming increasingly concerned for their ability to recruit sufficient numbers of graduates for technical roles as Brexit looms,...
Apprenticeships increase fails to mask downward trend
Apprenticeship starts in the first quarter of the 2018-19 academic year have risen in relation to figures reported at this...
Gender pay gap reporting
Four in 10 companies have reported a wider gender pay gap
Analysis by the BBC has revealed that four in 10 private companies have reported wider gender pay gaps for 2018...
Gender pay gap 2019: Three in 10 reports have errors
Almost a third of organisations that have submitted their gender pay gap reports for this year have published erroneous data,...
Closing the gender pay gap a priority for seven in 10 firms
Seven in 10 organisations view closing their gender pay gap as a high or medium priority, the Government Equalities Office has found.
Wellbeing
NHS worker who reported suicidal thoughts was unfairly dismissed
An NHS ambulance technician who was threatened with legal action after he reported feeling suicidal was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal...
‘Proactive’ OH service needed to improve NHS staff wellbeing
More support and a “proactive” occupational health service is needed to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of the...
How to make home working a success
When Dolly Parton sang about working 9 to 5 in 1980, the song reflected most employees’ regular office hours. Brian Hall looks at how things have changed in the past 40 years and asks if working from home always works?
Webinars
Retaining talent by supporting older workers (webinar)
Organisations are increasingly recognising the value of older workers in filling skills shortages and the benefits that having mixed-age teams...
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...
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
Tax-Free Childcare failing to attract working families
Take-up of the government's Tax-Free Childcare benefit has been much slower than anticipated, official figures have shown.
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....
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
Walmart staff file gender discrimination case
Almost 100 women in the US have filed a gender discrimination claim against retail giant Walmart, alleging they have been...
New tech threatens global labour market improvements
Emerging tech-driven business models are partly to blame for millions of people worldwide being forced to accept inadequate working conditions, according to research.
Businesses ‘hung out to dry’ without no-deal Brexit answers
With 44 days to go until the UK leaves the EU, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has published a...
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