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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.

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    • Early careers
    • Education - further and higher

    Graduate visa review finds benefits for skilled worker recruitment

    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024

    The Home Office should retain the graduate visa in its current form, the Migration Advisory Committee has recommended in its graduate visa review.

    • Latest News
    • Education
    • Public sector

    Closing teachers’ pay gap will improve recruitment, study finds

    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024

    Closing the gap between teachers' pay and average earnings is likely to improve teacher recruitment and retention, finds NFER.

    • Latest News
    • Labour market
    • Recruitment & retention

    UK unemployment and inactivity continue to rise

    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024

    UK unemployment and economic inactivity have continued to grow, the latest official labour market figures have shown.

    • General Data Protection Regulation
    • Data protection
    • Latest News

    Employee data breaches up 41%

    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 14 May 2024

    Reports of employee data breaches increased by 41% in 2023, reaching a five-year high, according to the ICO.

    • Minimum service levels
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Minimum service levels judicial review gets green light

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2024

    The PCS Union has been granted permission from the High Court to pursue a judicial review of minimum service levels law.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Inflation

    Real wages accelerate despite productivity falls

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2024

    'Real' wages grew by 2.1% in the 12 months to February 2024, faster than any time in the previous 16 years.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News
    • Training delivery

    Half of UK workers missing opportunities to develop new skills

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2024

    Only half of employees have been given opportunities to develop skills that will keep up with advances in their industry.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Employers plan to maintain staff levels rather than recruit

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 May 2024

    The CIPD’s spring 2024 labour market outlook suggests maintaining headcount at the current level is preferred by most employers.

    • Business performance
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    UK exits recession, but too early to celebrate recovery

    by Ashleigh Webber 10 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 10 May 2024

    UK exits recession, with GDP figures showing that the economy has grown by 0.6% in January to March 2024.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Civil Service
    • Scotland

    Scottish government failed to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employee

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 May 2024

    A disabled Scottish government employee who was not given reasonable adjustments has won a direct discrimination case at an employment tribunal.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Starting salaries grow at a faster pace

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 May 2024

    Starting salaries grew at a steeper rate in April 2024 as employers continued to battle for staff in a dwindling pool of suitable candidates.

    • Belief discrimination
    • Latest News
    • Discrimination

    Former NUS president reaches settlement in anti-Zionist belief case

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 May 2024

    A former president of the National Union of Students has accepted an undisclosed settlement in an anti-Zionist belief case against the union.

    • OH education and training
    • Occupational Health

    iOH achieves charity status to cement public health focus

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 May 2024

    The Association of Occupational Health and Wellbeing Professionals (iOH) has gained charity status.

    • Financial wellbeing
    • Latest News
    • Inflation

    Less than a third to award above-inflation pay rises in 2024

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 May 2024

    Survey finds only 30% of employers are prepared to award above-inflation pay rises this year, despite perceived responsibility to support employees.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Heineken pub reopenings to create hundreds of jobs

    by Ashleigh Webber 7 May 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 7 May 2024

    Heineken UK is set to invest £39m in reopening and upgrading its pubs, creating an estimated 1,075 new jobs.

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