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Ashleigh Webber

Ashleigh Webber

Ashleigh is a former editor of OHW+ and former HR and wellbeing editor at Personnel Today. Ashleigh's areas of interest include employee health and wellbeing, equality and inclusion and skills development. She has hosted many webinars for Personnel Today, on topics including employee retention, financial wellbeing and menopause support.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Disability

    Sight-impaired worker treated unfavourably by bakery

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Jun 2024

    Tribunal finds The Village Bakery in Wrexham unfavourably treated a factory worker with sight impairment, while on porobation

    • Stress
    • Latest News
    • Working life

    UK HR professionals struggling with work-life balance

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Jun 2024

    HR professionals in the UK are struggling with their work-life balance, a study has found.

    • Latest News
    • Personnel Today Awards

    Personnel Today Awards 2024: entries now closed

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2024

    The 2024 Personnel Today Awards closed for entries on 17 June, as the annual celebration of the best in HR and L&D enters the judging phase.

    • Hybrid working
    • Stress
    • Latest News

    Hybrid workers more productive and less stressed

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2024

    Hybrid workers are more motivated, productive and less likely to be feeling burnt out, research has found.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Gender
    • Disability

    Periods still a ‘problem’ in some work settings

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Jun 2024

    Menstrual periods are still seen as a 'problem' at work, including in laboratories, oil rigs and outdoor settings, research finds.

    • Political elections
    • Occupational Health

    Occupational health absent from major parties’ election manifestos

    by Ashleigh Webber 14 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 14 Jun 2024

    Commitments to the occupational health profession or access to OH support are absent from the major political parties' general election manifestos.

    • Employee relations
    • CIPD
    • Dispute resolution

    HR ‘must rebuild industrial relations skills’

    by Ashleigh Webber 14 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 14 Jun 2024

    Industrial relations experts have urged HR professionals to rebuild their industrial relations skills and invest in relationships with trade unions.

    • CIPD
    • Latest News
    • Mediation

    Conflict: Managers should not be treated as mediators

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Jun 2024

    A CIPD Festival of Work panel discussion included how HR should recognise that line managers are not mediators.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Gender
    • Latest News

    Female leadership representation barely improves since 2016

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Jun 2024

    Proportion of women hired into senior leadership roles is falling, leading to only a slight increase in overall female representation since 2016.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Hospitality
    • Latest News

    Unite threatens legal action over Whitbread redundancies

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Jun 2024

    A union is threatening to take legal action against Beefeater owner Whitbread over alleged poor consultation on 1,500 planned redundancies.

    • Local authorities
    • Latest News
    • Equal pay

    Union asks Brighton & Hove council for equal pay talks

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Jun 2024

    The GMB union has written to Brighton & Hove City Council to ask how it will resolve equal pay claims.

    • Latest News
    • Political elections
    • Immigration

    Conservative manifesto includes further national insurance cut

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jun 2024

    The Conservatives pledge a further 2p cut to employees' national insurance contribution in their general election manifesto today.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    Allow flexible working to encourage employees to vote

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Jun 2024

    Centenary Action says employers should encourage employees to vote by allowing flexible working and sharing postal vote information.

    • IR35
    • NHS
    • Apprenticeships

    Lib Dems unveil 2024 election manifesto

    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Jun 2024

    The Liberal Democrats have published their election manifesto, including plans to replace the apprenticeship levy and establish a new employment status.

    • Police
    • Latest News
    • Public sector

    Tories promise 8,000 more police officers

    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Jun 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Jun 2024

    The Conservatives would recruit an additional 8,000 neighbourhood police officers over the next three years if they win the general election.

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