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Jo Faragher

Jo Faragher

Jo Faragher has been an employment and business journalist for 20 years. She regularly contributes to Personnel Today and writes features for a number of national business and membership magazines. Jo is also the author of 'Good Work, Great Technology', published in 2022 by Clink Street Publishing, charting the relationship between effective workplace technology and productive and happy employees. She won the Willis Towers Watson HR journalist of the year award in 2015 and has been highly commended twice.

    • Collective bargaining
    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution

    Seven ways to prepare now for the Employment Rights Bill

    by Jo Faragher 20 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 20 Jun 2025

    The exact schedule for the Employment Rights Bill is still uncertain, but there are a number of practical measures HR...

    • Financial services
    • Latest News
    • Fraud

    Financial analyst guilty of insider dealing while WFH

    by Jo Faragher 20 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 20 Jun 2025

    A financial analyst and his sister have been convicted of insider dealing and money laundering after using working from home as a cover.

    • Latest News
    • Ireland
    • Unfair dismissal

    Date set for X’s appeal against unfair dismissal ruling

    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025

    The Labour Court in Ireland has set a date for an appeal in a high-profile case between a former Twitter...

    • Auto-enrolment
    • Latest News
    • Pensions

    Pensions regulator: make sure summer staff don’t miss out

    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025

    Employers and agencies who hire summer staff must remember their pension obligations, the regulator has warned.
    The Pensions Regulator (TPR)...

    • Financial services
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Finance professionals expect less emphasis on ESG and DEI

    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025

    More than half of senior professionals in UK financial services believe their employer will place less emphasis on DEI and ESG in the future.

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Skills shortages

    Overseas dentists ‘working in McDonald’s’ due to backlog

    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 18 Jun 2025

    Dentists from overseas are being forced to work in McDonald’s due to bureaucracy preventing them working in the UK.

    • Latest News
    • Discipline and grievances
    • Dismissal

    Sleeping security officer wins £20k for unfair dismissal

    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025

    A security officer who fell asleep on his shift has been awarded just over £20,000 for unfair dismissal.

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Movers and shakers

    HR and employment leaders feature in King’s birthday honours list

    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025

    A number of figures in the HR and employment space have been awarded in the King’s birthday honours list.
    Neil...

    • Latest News
    • Employment tribunals
    • Reproductive health

    Menopause claims triple in two years, tribunal figures show

    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 16 Jun 2025

    Tribunal claims relating to menopause have tripled in the last two years, according to analysis of the latest case statistics.

    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution
    • Latest News

    Data ‘blind spots’ blighting employee relations

    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2025

    Discrimination and harassment cases hit their highest levels in companies in 2024, and data blind spots are affecting how companies respond.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    Capita rolls out ‘agentic AI’ to speed up recruitment

    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 13 Jun 2025

    Outsourcing company Capita will use agentic AI to automate more than 200 recruitment tasks and speed up hiring.

    • CIPD
    • Employee engagement
    • Data protection

    CIPD Festival of Work: ‘Wellbeing is not an ideology’

    by Jo Faragher 11 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 11 Jun 2025

    ‘Good work’ and focusing on wellbeing are the levers needed to get people back into work, according to CIPD chief...

    • Agency workers
    • NHS
    • Local authorities

    Healthdaq: Shaking up health and social care recruitment

    by Jo Faragher 11 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 11 Jun 2025

    Healthdaq CEO Stephen McLarnon talks about winning Excellence in Public Service Award in 2024 and his company's work reducing agency worker spend.

    • Shared parental leave
    • Gender
    • Latest News

    Parental leave system is ‘broken’, say MPs

    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2025

    The current system of parental leave in the UK has “fundamental failings”, according to a new report from the Women and Equalities Commission.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Hiring confidence drops due to ‘reset’ in market

    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2025
    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2025

    UK employers’ hiring confidence for the third quarter of this year has dropped 12%, the steepest quarterly fall in recent...

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