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The new director-general of City & Guilds has claimed that vocational education needs to be overhauled if it is to serve business. “Vocational education has for too long been treated …

A Teeside coroner victimised one of his officers who supported a colleague’s claim of sex discrimination, an industrial tribunal in Newcastle found this week. The victimisation by Michael Sheffield followed …

Businesses in London are bracing themselves for today’s May Day demonstrations against global capitalism. Many shops and businesses around Oxford Street will close and some have taken down door plaques …

A three-month pilot scheme to introduce flexible working practices at IT company Intel found that job satisfaction increased and staff were more likely to meet deadlines. The scheme, which involved …

HR directors are being asked to drive forward the shake-up of the UK’s fragmented national training strategy. Andy Powell, chief executive of the National Training Organisation’s national council, told Personnel …

It’s spring. So why not clear the cobwebs out of your IT system with an annual spring clean. Rob McLuhan asks vendors for their top tips. "Speed up the performance" …

Blackburn and Darwen Council is to outsource its HR department and other services in a 15-year deal worth £190m. The council, which has 7,000 staff, is the fourth to outsource …

Good design has been cited as the most important factor of a successful recruitment site in extensive research carried out in the US by Boston-based Cambrian Consulting, which sets out …

This week’s business roundup Jobs go at US City firm Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, the US securities firm, is shedding a number of staff from its European operation based in …

I was thinking of calling this piece "the greatest HR non-issues of all time", but I have set myself quite a task because there are so many to choose from. …

This week’s guru Actor robbed of job for delivering too much Guru knows only too well the price you pay for being too good at your job. Take actor Mick …

For anyone who missed it, the consultation period on the future of National Training Organisations ended last month. If you are trying to bring to mind exactly who and what …

Will there be any point in having fixed-termers if the law is to put them on equal footing with permanent staff?

Nicholas Moore head of employment at Osborne Clarke OWA answers questions regarding time off work for new fathers Q  One of our employees is an excited father-to-be. He wants some …

Implementation of a new set of Tribunal Rules of Procedure has been delayed until 16 July to allow more time for tribunal users to understand the changes. The key change …