Social media

Thanks to skills shortages, 2015 has been billed the “Year of the Candidate”. But what support is available for HR...

A worker who placed on social media a “selfie” of himself wearing an Osama Bin Laden mask at work was...

In December 2014, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered the misuse of Twitter by an employee for the first time....

The risk of employees using contact lists to poach clients when they leave an organisation is nothing new, but the...

ON DEMAND | If your organisation is currently recruiting without social media, you are undoubtedly limiting the pool...

LinkedIn is facing a class action lawsuit in California over its premium “reference search” function that allows employers to identify...

Facebook and Twitter have transformed the way people communicate, but how does this affect the workplace? Ben Williams, employment barrister...

Monster managing director Andy Sumner talks to Peter Crush about how the company has had to make bold strides to...

In recruitment circles, few questions come close to generating such opinion and passion as these: Have job boards had their...

A new right for fathers and partners to take time off to attend antenatal appointments came in on 1 October...

An employment tribunal has awarded £32,000 to an employee who was unfairly dismissed after “liking” a Facebook comment about his...

With the sand finally gone from between your toes and the flip flops banished to the back of the wardrobe,...

With recent advances in technology, the boundary between an employee’s personal and work life has become blurred. Employees use social...

Attracting able graduates into the legal profession is a competitive business, according to Lucy Crittenden, head of graduate recruitment at...

If there was any doubt that organisations are reviewing their learning and development (L&D) activities this year, this soon disappeared...