Tribunal finds The Village Bakery in Wrexham unfavourably treated a factory worker with sight impairment, while on porobation
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.
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HR professionals in the UK are struggling with their work-life balance, a study has found.
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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.
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Hybrid workers are more motivated, productive and less likely to be feeling burnt out, research has found.
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Menstrual periods are still seen as a 'problem' at work, including in laboratories, oil rigs and outdoor settings, research finds.
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Commitments to the occupational health profession or access to OH support are absent from the major political parties' general election manifestos.
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Industrial relations experts have urged HR professionals to rebuild their industrial relations skills and invest in relationships with trade unions.
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A CIPD Festival of Work panel discussion included how HR should recognise that line managers are not mediators.
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Proportion of women hired into senior leadership roles is falling, leading to only a slight increase in overall female representation since 2016.
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A union is threatening to take legal action against Beefeater owner Whitbread over alleged poor consultation on 1,500 planned redundancies.
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The GMB union has written to Brighton & Hove City Council to ask how it will resolve equal pay claims.
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The Conservatives pledge a further 2p cut to employees' national insurance contribution in their general election manifesto today.
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Centenary Action says employers should encourage employees to vote by allowing flexible working and sharing postal vote information.
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The Liberal Democrats have published their election manifesto, including plans to replace the apprenticeship levy and establish a new employment status.
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The Conservatives would recruit an additional 8,000 neighbourhood police officers over the next three years if they win the general election.