Law firm Irwin Mitchell will give most staff a £900 one-off payment this month to help them deal with the...
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.
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Providers of employee assistance programmes (EAPs) are reporting significant rises in calls as they support workers based in Ukraine and surrounding states.
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Staff at the Financial Conduct Authority have voted in favour of industrial action – a first for the financial services regulator.
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Almost a million graduate-level jobs remained unfilled at the end of 2020, according to a report by education body Universities UK.
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Amazon is trying to overturn an historic vote by its US workers to form a union for its workers.
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EasyJet and British Airways have been forced to cancel flights due to staff shortages, just as passenger numbers rise for the school holidays.
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Unions have reacted with fury at reports the long-awaited Employment Bill will not be announced during the Queen’s Speech in...
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A boxer who sustained a head injury during a fight has lost his claim for disability discrimination against Scottish Power.
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Civil service union PCS has called a pay rise for civil servants of 2% to 3% “derisory” and an “insult to members who helped to keep the country running during the pandemic”.
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The government will publish a new statutory code on ‘fire and rehire’ tactics in a bid to clamp down on unscrupulous employers.
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Demand for professionals to fill learning and development jobs has almost doubled as businesses turn to training to retain employees.
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Nursery chain Bright Horizons has just announced a £10m investment in recruitment, retention and training. HR director Janine Leightley tells Personnel Today why this is important.
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Today marks exactly two years since the government announced the first Covid-19 lockdown, when millions of UK employees were told...
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P&O Ferries has claimed it did not break the law by making 800 staff redundant without consultation or warning last week.
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A new industry forum has launched to support neurodiversity at work.