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The TUC has hit out at the employers’ campaign to cut the compensation culture and reform the tribunal system in their favour. It has published a briefing on "compensation culture …

Women in the financial sector earn £250,000 less than male colleagues during their working lifetimes because of the gender pay gap, according to the MSF union. Research by ICM shows …

In the technologically driven world of tomorrow, hospitals will be run by machines and call centre staff will enjoy their roles, an expert claims. Ian Pearson, chief futurologist of British …

Male graduates are twice as likely than their female counterparts to earn a salary above £25,000, a CIPD survey reveals. The research also shows that for every five women graduates …

Media group Reuters has installed a new HR management system that will simplify its employee database and cut costs. The new system, provided by Oracle, will allow the company to …

Firms are spending more than 10 per cent of their staff budgets on sickness absence and employee healthcare, claims Norwich Union Healthcare research. It is costing UK business £39bn a …

Employers are putting too much emphasis on winning Investors in People status rather than considering the cultural benefits of the process, according to research. The report by the Open University …

Graduates with health-related degrees need better starting salaries to stop them deserting the NHS, according to their representative body. Professions Allied to Medicines claims that more than a third of …

Angie Risley promoted to director at Whitbread Come rain or shine, Angie Risley can be found on the touchline cheering on her two young sons. But while they enjoy football, …

Short listed teams for The Hammond Suddards Edge Award for HR Manager of the Year This award is for the many HR managers throughout the country who not only play …

Bouncing back from his controversial re-engineering theory of late 1980s, Dr Michael Hammer revisits business strategy with a nine-step plan for the 21st century

This week’s case roundup Pre-transfer dismissal was fair Thompson v SCS Consulting and others, unreported, September 2001 EAT In December 1998, receivers were appointed to SCS and having taken into …

The challenge A company is to introduce access to the Internet for all its staff, including the ability to send and receive external e-mails. It wants to introduce a policy, allowing some personal use but ensuring the system is not abused. Paul White and Charlotte Hamer from the Employment and Pensions Group of law firm Stephenson Harwood, give their advice

A lack of work-life balance is damaging employees’ health, family life and the quality of their work, claims research. The survey by PeoplePC shows a fifth of UK workers admit …

Virgin Atlantic is to cut 1,200 jobs in reponse to the long-term effects of last week’s terrorist attack on the US. The company announced the job losses today as it …