Flexible working changes 2024: How can HR prepare for changes to flexible working legislation coming into force in April?
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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What do HR experts and labour market observers make of this year's Spring Budget?
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirmed the Treasury will cut the main rate of National Insurance by a further 2 percentage points to 8%.
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A female firefighter who suffered sexual harassment has successfully sued Avon Fire and Rescue Service for sex discrimination and unfair dismissal.
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The BBC will feature interviews with intelligence officers from minority backgrounds to boost ethnic diversity in the service.
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Civil service absence is up to a 12-year high, official figures suggest.
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More than 600 Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport are being balloted over potential strike action.
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Busy Bees: Retention and attraction in the burgeoning childcare sector
by Jo Faragherby Jo FaragherBusy Bees Nurseries group people director Charlotte Hutchings discusses how the company will recruit more childcare workers and the power of apprenticeships.
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Sainsbury's has announced plans to cut 1,500 jobs as part of an ongoing programme to streamline operations.
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How should employers prepare for the new right to unpaid carer's leave, which comes into force in April 2024?
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Manufacturing giant Tata Group has confirmed it will invest £4bn in an electric vehicle battery plant in Somerset, creating around 4,000 jobs.
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A government-backed review has made several recommendations on how employers can support autistic people to thrive at work.
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Workers in their early 20s are more likely to be not working due to ill health than those in their early 40s, says the Resolution Foundation.
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According to the latest monthly jobs market data from Adzuna, vacancies fell below 900,000 in January for the first time since April 2021.
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Two academics at Oxford University who were employed on gig-economy style contracts have won a claim over their employee status.