UK large companies’ succession planning is weak – research
Day one rights in the Employment Rights Bill (webinar)
16 October 2025 | Register now for our webinar looking at day one rights and unfair dismissal rules and how they will change with the government's employment law reforms.
Café worker awarded £22k after being too cold at work
Cheesecake café worker dismissed after complaining it was too cold to have door open, awarded £21,600 at employment tribunal.
Charities increasingly relying on ‘shadow’ volunteer workforce
Charities are increasingly relying on a ‘shadow workforce’ of unpaid, volunteer workers to deliver vital community services and support, with...
Agency workers
Petition calls for rethink on NHS agency staff ban
Petition calling on government to stop plan to ban agency staff in NHS attracts thousands of signatures.
Court of Appeal rules that Ryanair agency pilot is worker
A Ryanair pilot has won a landmark legal victory on agency worker status at the Court of Appeal.
Healthdaq: Shaking up health and social care recruitment
Healthdaq CEO Stephen McLarnon talks about winning Excellence in Public Service Award in 2024 and his company's work reducing agency worker spend.
Absence
Civil service absence on track to report record high
Absences in the civil service could be up to more than eight days per worker per year, according to sickness data published by departments.
Top 10 HR questions July 2025: Unauthorised absence
The top HR questions in July 2025 include one on what to do if an employee fails to turn up for work.
With HR absence rising, is your people team at risk of breaking?
When ‘the people team’ – HR – breaks, the whole business suffers. Tracey Paxton makes the case for why HR...
Performance management
Top 10 HR questions July 2025: Unauthorised absence
The top HR questions in July 2025 include one on what to do if an employee fails to turn up for work.
Neurodiversity case exposes nuance in reasonable adjustments
A woman with a ADHD diagnosis has partially succeeded in her claim against her employer Capgemini UK on the basis of failure to make reasonable adjustments.
Performance management is broken: how can we rebuild?
The Employment Rights Bill creates an urgency to build more proactive, human-centred ways to manage performance.
Relationships at work
Coldplay couple: why should they lose their jobs?
There’s not a legal obligation for people in this situation to resign but termination may be justified, even though the event happened outside of work, says an employment lawyer.
Worker Protection Act: Time for a ban on workplace relationships?
What do the new legal obligations under the Worker Protection Act mean for workplace relationships and policies around them?
BP staff must disclose colleague relationships
New policy requires staff to declare BP colleague relationships regardless of whether they feel there is a conflict of interest.
Work-life balance
Engineers prioritising benefits over pay
More than half of engineering professionals would happily trade higher salaries for better benefits, more meaningful roles or improved work-life...
Four-day working: ‘We need to start treating people like the adults they are’
Employer of record (EOR) provider Peak PEO has been moving to a four-day working week model since 2023 and introduced...
UK engineering and manufacturing firms face hiring struggles
Six in 10 hiring managers in the UK manufacturing and engineering sector have struggled to hire in the past year,...
Workforce planning
UK large companies’ succession planning is weak – research
A lack of succession planning has led most of the UK’s largest listed companies to chose external candidates as their new chief executive, a trend not seen elsewhere in Europe or in the US.
Petition calls for rethink on NHS agency staff ban
Petition calling on government to stop plan to ban agency staff in NHS attracts thousands of signatures.
Nurse and midwife ‘graduate guarantee’ launched
Thousands of jobs will be unlocked across healthcare with ‘graduate guarantee’ to ensure jobs for every newly qualified nurse and midwife.