Economics, government & business

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a two-year partnership with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) to equip personnel across...

Oil giant BP is to axe four layers of management in a radical shake-up following a “dreadful” performance in the...

The government last night offered hope to thousands of disabled workers threatened by the closures of Remploy factories.Work and pensions...

CBI director-general Richard Lambert has spoken of his satisfaction with prime minister Gordon Brown’s plans for GP reform.Brown pledged in...

A national skills academy for the nuclear sector has been approved by skills minister, David Lammy.The academy joins those already...

A senior Leitch Review adviser has offered to rescue the government’s skills drive that stalled when Sir Digby Jones left...

Gordon Brown today offered hope to the human resource professionals when he pledged to reform GP services.The prime minister told...

Work and Pensions Minister Mike O’Brien may welcome the news that the EU is to finance training schemes in the...

Consumer goods group Unilever will axe more than 300 jobs over the next 12 months as part of a review...

Committed2Equality (c2e)  has calculated that in the last 12 months unfair practices cost employers £1.7bn – almost £1m every working hour.  The...

The unpaid work of carers saves the UK £87bn per year, up 52% from five years ago, according to a...

Leading human resources professional Martin Sawkins has left his role at the AA motoring services group, Personnel Today understands.Sawkins, HR...

Skills minister David Lammy failed to turn up to deliver the keynote speech at a skills event in London yesterday.Lammy...

Government actions in the wake of last year’s Leitch report on the UK’s skills needs will do little to avert...

Conservative Party plans to give employment tribunals the power to order firms guilty of discrimination to undertake equal pay audits...