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Performance related pay has overtaken profit related pay as employers’ preferred method of rewarding staff, according to research. The Select Appointment’s Salary and Benefits Survey found that 64 per cent …

Employers face a debt saddled workforce with one in ten students expecting to still be in debt as many as 10 years after graduation. One in five UK students are …

A privacy at work conference is to be held next month to try to resolve confusion over the Data Protection Code. The Privacy at Work section of the code is …

Half of the staff at arbitration body Acas are taking their employer to tribunal over indirect sex discrimination. The Public and Commercial Services Union is bringing a single action on …

Nearly 80 per cent of company directors stay in close contact with the office when on holiday, according to research. A survey of 2,000 business directors by Marcus Bohn Associates …

Lloyds TSB has launched a scheme to identify the future leaders of the company. The Top Management Resource scheme (TMR) will be available to 12,000 managers across the group. Speaking …

The Court of Appeal has clarified some conflicting views on post-employment discrimination claims, reports Sarah Lamont. There has been some debate recently as to whether the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) …

A snapshot of UK employees’ attitudes to work seems to suggest companies are failing to address some of their basic grievances and risk losing skilled staff. Complacent employers beware, findings …

HR should be involved in drawing up companies’ standards of engagement to avoid using child labour in their supply chain, claims a leading HR academic. Dr Diana Winstanley, senior lecturer …

Sixty per cent of Personnel Today readers who took part in our news barometer survey last week do not think it is necessary to have an HR background to be …

Supermarket chain Asda will place job adverts on shelf labels and product stickers in all its 244 stores in a drive to recruit 10,000 extra staff in the UK. The …

Employers face average delays of 18 months before cases are heard at the Employment Appeal Tribunal, according to law firm Klegal. Stephen Levinson, a partner and head of employment law …

Honda’s purpose-built £2m training institute opened last week. The Honda Institute will provide business and technical training for 9,000 dealership staff. Pauline Wiseman, head of the institute, which is based …

The clergy are getting fed up with frayed dog collars and cheap wine at evensong. Those who are members of the MSF union have called on it to start lobbying …

This week’s news …in brief Pension cash crisis Millions of company pensions are under threat because of a cash crisis caused by employees retiring earlier and living longer. Speaking at …