Adam McCulloch

Amazon is axing roles at its companies Prime Video, Twitch and MGM.

December 2023 saw a continued rise in candidate availability with economic uncertainty causing redundancies and a slowdown in hiring.

The lack of a designated female toilet led to a £15,000 award for a security guard in Scotland.

Sainsbury’s will increase minimum pay for employees outside London to £12 an hour, with wages for staff inside the M25 increasing to £13.15 an hour.

Ulster University study reveals that people who work from home have fewer sick days and that Wales has seen sharpest rise in absences.

A female MoD employee told Prospect that she had experienced her first sexual assault a year after joining the MoD at a social work event.

Personnel Today reviews a momentous year – with industrial relations, toxic workplace cultures, AI and immigration among the major themes.

Advertising and PR giant WPP has announced the appointment of Lindsay Pattison as global chief people officer. Plus a selection of other recent top people moves.

Gifts, sick days and gossip are very much part of the festive season, Personnel Today has found, and various companies have been contacting us with their seasonal insights …

In November 2023, overall UK job advertisements fell 2.72% compared with October, and are down 8.55% compared with last year.

Fears that employment tribunals would be swamped by cases after the Covid-19 pandemic have proved unfounded, latest figures show.

Fran Heathcote will be the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), and Amy Leversidge moves from the FDA union to become general secretary of the British Airline Pilots’ Association.

Letter states the levy should be altered to help employers reduce labour shortages and fund courses shorter than one year.

Bernard Looney is to be dismissed without notice and will not receive further salary or benefits, which would have amounted up to £32.4m.

Online marketplace Etsy is shedding 225 jobs, about 11% of its workforce, as part of a plan to bring down its costs.