Executive pay ratio reporting: Six issues for employers to consider now

New legislation will require UK quoted companies with more than 250 employees to publish the pay ratio between their CEO...

How does gender pay gap reporting affect transgender employees?

The new gender pay gap reporting laws currently make no mention of transgender or non-binary employees – employers can only...

UK employers outshine global competitors in gender pay equality

Almost six in 10 UK employers are taking action to address their gender pay gap in response to the new...

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...

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...

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...

Fall in EU worker migration ‘bad news for employers’

The CIPD has warned that today’s falling migration figures will further hamper employers’ ability to recruit EU workers.

EU migration...

Government confirms end to freedom of movement: with potential exceptions

Completely free movement of people will end as the UK leaves the EU, a government white paper has confirmed today....

Sajid Javid: no ‘automatic right’ for EU citizens to work post-Brexit

EU citizens would not have any “automatic right” to work in the UK after the Brexit transition period, Sajid Javid...

Growing your business with apprenticeships (webinar)

 
Hiring an apprentice is a productive and efficient way for any business to cost-effectively recruit and upskill their workforce,...

What’s going wrong with the apprenticeship levy?

More than a year after the apprenticeship levy came into effect, most agree that it is not going according to...

Employers can transfer apprenticeship funds to multiple businesses

Employers will be able to transfer up to 10% of their apprenticeship levy funds...

Mental health support: moving beyond the hashtag

A new framework from Acas has highlighted how employers, managers and individuals all have a role to play in tackling...

Police complain about accommodation ahead of Trump visit

Police officers brought in to ensure US president Donald Trump’s visit to the UK runs smoothly have complained about the...

Employees taking less time off sick, yet costing employers more

Employees took less time off sick last year, yet the bill faced by employers for this absence still went up,...

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...

Growing your business with apprenticeships (webinar)

 
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...

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...

Counting the cost of occupational cancer

The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health’s (IOSH) “No Time to Lose” campaign has been working since 2014 to reduce...

Why wellbeing in the workplace must start from day one

For a sustainable and meaningful approach to employee wellbeing, employers need to start from day one of employment with an...

Why a Brexit-fuelled government collapse may be bad news for occupational health

Whatever you may feel about Brexit, there is an argument that occupational health practitioners should be willing and hoping Theresa...

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...

Managing global mobility in a fast-changing world

Posting employees globally offers them invaluable experience and breaks down borders in organisations. But how can employers keep up with...

How employee benefits can keep gig workers engaged

As more organisations choose to use ‘gig’ workers, the workforce is becoming increasingly isolated. But how do employers keep them...

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...

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...

Ministry of Sound launches ultra-cool London workspace

A new workspace in south London is aiming to raise the bar for office space that’s attractive to small creative...

Government confirms end to freedom of movement: with potential exceptions

Completely free movement of people will end as the UK leaves the EU, a government white paper has confirmed today....

Sajid Javid: no ‘automatic right’ for EU citizens to work post-Brexit

EU citizens would not have any “automatic right” to work in the UK after the Brexit transition period, Sajid Javid...