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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.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    • Discrimination

    Two in five LGBTQ+ workers experience discrimination

    by Ashleigh Webber 22 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 22 May 2024

    Two in five LGBTQ+ workers have faced discrimination at work, with many considering quitting their jobs or alternative careers.

    • Latest News
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Labour market

    Skills ‘bootcamps’ to tackle unemployment

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 May 2024

    Unemployed people in the UK will be sent to skills 'bootcamps' that will train them to fill roles where there is a shortage of workers.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News
    • Labour market

    Employers pay 14% wage premium for AI skills

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 May 2024

    UK employers are willing to pay a 14% wage premium for workers with AI skills, according to PwC research.

    • Offices
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Bank of England to base one in 10 staff in Leeds

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 May 2024

    The Bank of England is set to increase its presence in Leeds and plans to have one in 10 staff based in the city by 2027.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Northern Ireland
    • Disability discrimination

    O2 parent settles £160k disability discrimination case

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024

    Worker who left his job at an O2 after recommendations from occupational health were ignored has settled his disability discrimination case.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Works councils

    Further changes to TUPE regulations proposed

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024

    The government has published a consultation outlining several planned changes to TUPE regulations, including clarifying who they apply to.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Absence
    • Disability discrimination

    Teacher who fell asleep in class unfairly dismissed

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024

    A teacher who lost his job after falling asleep in class was unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal finds.

    • Apprenticeships
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    • Early careers

    Most employers back guaranteed apprenticeships for young people

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2024

    Most employers support an 'apprenticeships guarantee' for young people up to the age of 24, the CIPD has found.

    • Latest News
    • Public sector
    • Pensions

    Firefighters seek Supreme Court appeal in public sector pensions case

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 May 2024

    The FBU is seeking permission to appeal to the Supreme Court over the cost control mechanism imposed on public sector pension schemes.

    • Career development
    • Latest News
    • Education

    MPs set out recommendations to address teacher supply crisis

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 May 2024

    MPs on the Education Committee have set out their recommendations for teacher recruitment and retention in England.

    • Financial services
    • Latest News
    • Professional services

    HSBC and Deloitte pull job offers to foreign graduates

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 May 2024

    HSBC and Deloitte have pulled job offers to foreign graduates of UK universities after the salary threshold for a skilled worker visa was increased.

    • Civil Service
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Civil service union misses strike vote threshold in most departments

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 May 2024

    Civil servants vote in favour of strike, but the union fails to achieve turnout threshold in key departments.

    • NHS
    • Stress
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    NHS England workforce wellbeing programme launched

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 May 2024

    A new £16m NHS workforce wellbeing programme has been launched in England and will feature initiatives that have been developed by staff.

    • Sexual harassment
    • Financial services
    • Gender

    Government rejects ban of NDAs in sexual harassment cases

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 May 2024

    The government has rejected a recommendation from a group of MPs to ban the use of non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases.

    • Offices
    • Employee engagement
    • Latest News

    Half of employees would move jobs for four-day week

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 May 2024

    Fifty-one per cent of employees would be tempted to take a job at a different organisation if it offered a four-day working week.

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