Business performance

Nearly two thirds of firms are worried about a hung Parliament after the election, a survey has found.A British Chambers...

Network Rail has risked furthering angering rail unions by announcing that 500 maintenance workers will lose their jobs by the...

Volcano update: Seven things employers should be doing
HR departments have fallen back on tried and tested flexible working systems...

The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has called on the government to create incentives for job-seekers in order to prevent...

Workers at a Teesside steel plant are threatening industrial action over their employer’s ‘inability’ to resolve the site’s long-term future.The...

The UK’s top 25 law firms hired more than 2,000 people in 2009-10, fewer than they made redundant during the...

Electricity industry leaders are arguing that ‘unfair’ National Grid charges are putting tens of thousands of jobs at risk. In...

Tesco is to become the UK’s third biggest electrical retailer next year, creating 1,000 new posts.The new staff will almost...

The blanket ban on flights in and out of the UK could cost businesses more than £3m a day as...

Senior NHS, police, fire service and local government staff will participate in a training course this week designed to help...

Half a million public sector jobs could be shed over the next five years as the new government begins to...

The parties have now unveiled their election manifestos. Here Personnel Today outlines how their different policies will affect employers. Flexible...

Council workers in England and Wales took on average more than two days off work because of stress last year,...

Some 77 leading academics have now signed a letter warning against Conservative plans to create an extra £6bn-worth of savings...

Employers “piggy-backing” off the popularity of apprenticeships to promote and run their own poor quality courses could ruin the reputation...