Economics, government & business

Many column inches have been devoted to bemoaning the skills of young people today. But what of the skills of...

Almost one in five companies (18%) is planning to take on more staff over the next three months, but three-quarters...

Once a mainstay of the British economy, the manufacturing sector has been facing huge challenges in recent times. Trade unions...

Private sector pay rises are set to soar by almost twice as much as increases in the public sector over...

Supermarket giant Tesco has committed itself to providing more employment opportunities for disabled people by signing agreements with disability employment...

The police should consider outsourcing more of its back office tasks to the private sector to help get more officers...

Effective time management is essential for ensuring that sales soar, a Watson Wyatt survey has shown.Research by the consulting firm...

Professional polish workers are helping to fill the UK financial services skills gap, research revealed.Far from simply supplying the UK ...

NHS Employers has advised the pay review bodies that next year’s pay award for doctors, dentists, nurses and other healthcare...

Thousands of workers in the financial services industry could lose their jobs in the final quarter of 2006, according to...

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) has risen to a new adult rate of £5.35 per hour as of 1 October.
The increase from £5.05...

Younger people’s attitudes towards ‘industry’ have almost nothing in common with those of older people, a new survey has found....

I would like to congratulate Personnel Today on exposing HR’s most nagging paradox in your 5 September edition.On the one...

Is the increasing amount of red tape turning UK employers into quasi-immigration officers?

MPs should not be able to set their own salaries, according to Conservative party leader David Cameron.Cameron said that the...