Global HR

It’s been a long, hard year in HR. The recession has taken its toll on employers. HR has responded with...

UK Border Agency (UKBA) staff working at immigration controls in Calais, Dunkirk, Coquelles and Boulogne in France will be taking...

Multinational corporations continue to move away from being organised around self-contained or independent national entities, towards structures that integrate their...

The mass phone calls from Dave Ulrich and David MacLeod to RBS’s HR professionals were good value for money, the...

Up to a quarter of a million public sector workers are to stage a 24-hour strike in Ireland today. The...

We will be covering the CIPD’s keynote speech on ‘Next Generation HR’ live from 4pm on Tuesday, 17 November.If you work...

Employers with businesses in EU countries face some difficult challenges if they restructure local operations. Mark Taylor outlines the scale of the problem and details some particular issues.

France Telecom plans to allow older staff to work part-time in a bid to stop a string of suicides at...

We’re all watching the Royal Mail strike with a genuine mix of emotions. Since the late 1980s, strike action has...

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...

Now in its ninth year, the Top 40 Power Players aims to recognise HR’s most prominent and influential professionals; those...