This week has seen further major companies – Citigroup and KPMG – abandon their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the US.
Global HR
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The UK is likely to offer a youth mobility scheme, as the government looks to reset relations with the EU.
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Scottish workers are awarded the biggest pay increases in the public sector, outstripping the rest of the UK.
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The nurse at the centre of a tribunal against her employer, NHS Fife, has been asked to attend a conduct...
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Entries are no longer being accepted to a controversial scheme offering financial rewards for staff resignations.
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Oil giant Chevron Corporation is to make up to 8,000 employees redundant by the end of 2026 in a bid to cut costs.
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Goldman Sachs scraps an internal diversity rule that banned the bank from advising all-male and all-white boards on company flotations.
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DEI initiatives in the US are under attack, but the evidence in favour of maintaining gender diversity programmes still stands up.
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Google owner Alphabet says it will no longer set hiring targets to improve workforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
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President Trump claimed that one potential underlying reason for the crash was DEI policies and the Democrat party's role in encouraging them.
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Almost all federal employees have until 6 February to decide whether to resign, as Donald Trump reduces government headcount.
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Cardiff University confirms proposals to cut 400 academic jobs – 7% of its total workforce – in an effort to secure long-term future.
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More than 1,000 British jobs have been saved following the takeover of Titanic shipbuilder Harland & Wolff (H&W).
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Most senior HR and c-suite professionals in the UK expect the rapid retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in the US to influence the UK workplace.
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LinkedIn has been accused in the US of sharing users’ private messages with other companies to train artificial intelligence models.