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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.

    • Police
    • Discipline
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    Police officer ‘forcibly’ removed trainees’ earrings

    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Apr 2024

    A Dorset Police officer allegedly used bolt cutters to 'forcibly' remove earrings worn by three trainee officers ahead of a fitness test.

    • STEM
    • Environment
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    Pay a barrier to moving into green jobs

    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Apr 2024

    Low pay is putting job seekers off green jobs or those that have a positive impact on society, research by Indeed has found.

    • Latest News
    • Flexible working
    • Job descriptions

    Research reveals surge in flexible and remote roles

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Apr 2024

    Searches for flexible, fully-remote or remote-first work have risen over the past year amid return-to-office mandates.

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Industrial action / strikes

    Supreme Court: Trade union detriment ‘incompatible’ with human rights

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Apr 2024

    Legislation found to offer no protection from trade union detriment is incompatible with human rights law, the Supreme Court has ruled.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    XpertHR becomes Brightmine in strategic rebrand

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Apr 2024

    XpertHR has rebranded as Brightmine, in a shift that recognises that HR's role is becoming more complex and has a greater need for data analytics.

    • Age
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    • Public sector

    Prison officers say retirement age of 68 is unfair

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Apr 2024

    Most prison officers in Scotland feel their retirement age of 68 is unfair compared with other uniformed services who can retire earlier.

    • Collective redundancy
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    • Industrial action / strikes

    Tata Steel threatens to withhold enhanced redundancy package

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024

    Tata Steel has threatened to withhold an enhanced redundancy package if employees go on strike.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    ONS: Unemployment and economic inactivity increase

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024

    Unemployment and economic inactivity both increased at the beginning of this year, April 2024 labour market figures show.

    • India
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Gender

    Study: Board gender quotas don’t improve executive diversity

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024

    Board gender quotas fail to increase the number of women appointed to the executive suite, research has found.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Civil Service
    • Disability

    DWP treated autistic work coach unfavourably

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024

    Tribunal finds the Department for Work and Pensions treated an autistic work coach unfavourably and failed to make reasonable adjustments for him.

    • Stress
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    NHS U-turns on secondary care mental health support cuts

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Apr 2024

    NHS England is set to withdraw funding for secondary care staff to access mental health support provided by NHS Practitioner Health.

    • Police
    • Criminal records
    • Latest News

    Automated police vetting system being explored

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Apr 2024

    The home secretary has commissioned the development of an automated national police vetting system in England and Wales.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    • Ethnicity

    Study linking ethnic diversity with performance questioned by academics

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Apr 2024

    Academics have questioned the robustness of a widely-quoted study that links ethnic diversity in leadership with financial performance.

    • Europe
    • Employee engagement
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    How PepsiCo pushes employee experience to the max

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Apr 2024

    HR chief for Europe Dannii Portsmouth tells Personnel Today how the drinks giant is focusing on employee experience.

    • Right to work
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    UK immigration policy ‘harmful to businesses’

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Apr 2024

    The UK's current immigration policy is harmful to businesses, a report says, organisations still rely on international workers.

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