Europe

Phone company France Telecom has put a stop to its controversial reorganisation involving internal transfers, which has been blamed for...

France Telecom has scrapped the restructuring blamed for a spate of employee suicides - but too late for the 25 workers who have already taken their own lives. The Chartered Management Institute's chief executive Ruth Spellman considers the dangers of ignoring the emotional wellbeing of staff.

Management practices at a French phone giant have helped drive a number of workers to commit suicide, a union member...

HR across Europe is slowly becoming more like its UK counterpart, and shares many of the same people challenges. But...

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...

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

Some 200 jobs are to be axed by Lloyds Bank in the Channel islands and Isle of Man following a...

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...