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This week’s guru Spectacular failure sees error of ways It’s not only Lord Archer who lies on his CV, although few manage to stretch the truth about their academic career …

This week’s letters Letter of the week Teaching our staff to write it right I want to respond to recent letters saying that it is time to act over sloppy …

… a computer can do just as well – at least, if you believe the predictions, it soon will, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence. And it could have a profound and surprising impact on the role of HR. Jane Lewis reports

Costs mount up as tribunal takes culminative effect of discrimination on individual employee into account

Next month, Personnel Today and TMP Worldwide launches the Boardroom HR conference in Birmingham. To whet the appetite of delegates and get the debate started, Professor Amin Rajan presents preliminary findings from research based on interviews with chief executives which turns a lot of assumptions about boardroom HR priorities upside down

This week’s news in brief Website on shortlist PersonnelToday.com has been short-listed for a prestigious publishing award. The website, launched in October 2000, is one of just six sites short-listed …

The TUC conference saw sharp exchanges between government and unions on private involvement in public services. What is the view of the UK’s biggest union Unison?

HR professionals across the world are picking up the pieces following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York which saw thousands of staff killed. As the …

No one likes to think about the death of a colleague but in the wake of the horrifying death toll caused by last week’s terrorist attack in the US, it is an issue many HR professionals face. Gavin Evans advises on how to deal with the death of an employee overseas

Brought in during a period of radical reform for the RUC, senior director of HR Joe Stewart (pictured below) is charged with restructuring the force within a framework of high political expectation. Mike Broad reports

Personnel managers and their agencies are being encouraged to enter the annual awards launched this week which select the best-designed recruitment ads and most innovative campaigns in the business. Chairman …

Employers are turning away skilled refugees who are entitled to work in the UK because of delays in providing them with National Insurance numbers. A consultant who works with the …

The Government has given its strongest indication that staff pensions are to be protected by law for the first time when employees transfer from one business to another. The proposals …

The Government hopes proposals to give more protection to employees’ terms and conditions when they are transferred between employers will help overcome resistance to the involvement of the private sector …

The Prime Minister was set to offer government support to manufacturing staff made redundant by the deepening recession in his planned address to the TUC Annual Congress. Tony Blair decided …