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France Telecom will hire 100 new HR advisers and work with unions to tackle workplace stress, following 24 staff suicides...

French hotel giant Accor said it will stop hiring staff based on their looks partly by using an anonymous job...

A quarterly global survey of hiring and firing trends covering more than 7000 organisations in 34 countries has found job...

Unemployment in the 16 countries using the euro increased in April to its highest level in nearly 10 years, official...

Disabled workers must not be unfairly affected by the recession, the TUC has warned at its annual disability conference.The union said...

Defra’s HR chief has admitted that Whitehall’s imminent move to shared services may take two years to become fully operational.A...

I became European HR director at BearingPoint in July 2004. I had a succession of global HR leaders as my...

Angry workers who believe companies are not doing enough to support them during the recession could increasingly resort to staging...

Two managers held hostage by workers unhappy with their severance packages have been released.The pair, HR manager Roland Bentz and...

Francesco Mereu has been appointed a director of Toyota GB, with responsibility of HR, corporate social responsibility and environmental strategy....

As budgets are squeezed in the economic downturn, many global organisations are facing difficult recruitment challenges and searching for more...

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has successfully abolished the country’s controversial 35-hour working week limit.
A law passed by the country’s...

The French government has adopted a number of decrees to provide more details as to how, in practice, some of...

Foreign workers will be needed to provide the skills to increase the UK’s nuclear power capacity, an expert has conceded.EDF...

Trade unions across the world have warmly welcomed the signing of a new labour rights deal with communications giant France...