HR practice

Former Abbey employee allowed to bring claim after being made redundant.

Employees focus on social life to detriment of work tasks

Company condemned for failing to monitor hours worked by staff.

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has dismissed 14 staff and disciplined 101 for sending pornographic e-mails.

Media industries sign up to £12bn culture scheme.

Sue Nickson, international head of employment at Hammonds, offers advice on how to draft an email and internet policy

Absence? What absence? When firms have followed the advice, tips and tricks often published in employee benefits magazines on subjects...

HR departments battling to improve attendance figures in their organisations will not have welcomed comments from the Amicus union last...

The presumption that doctors will sort out absence management problems is "a cop out" by employers who should be doing more to tackle the issue, according to the British Medical Association (BMA).

A survey reveals that senior civil servants think their leaders are not up to scratch in most Whitehall departments.

Volkswagen is heading for a showdown with trade unions by planning to extend the working week for its German employees from 28.8 to 35 hours, without offering any form of pay rise.

UK executives are saving the UK economy £3.5bn a year by failing to take their full holiday entitlement, according to research published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

So World Cup fever could cost employers £4bn through internet abuse?

As an England fan, I’m used to the World Cup often being a painful experience, but I usually suffer on my sofa, not in the office.

Paternity leave is becoming increasingly popular across the UK, according to the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)