The shadow employment minister has called or all non-essential workplaces to be closed in a letter to the prime minister....
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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Workers who have not taken all of their statutory annual leave entitlement this year due to the coronavirus will be...
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has now unveiled measures to support self-employed workers who have been hit financially by the coronavirus.
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The government should delay next month’s rise in the national living wage in order to protect jobs in the midst...
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The current circumstances, driven by Covid-19, are challenging for any organisation. But how do you cope if you’re in the...
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Companies have been forced to scale down entry-level recruitment programmes.
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Doctors and other medical staff are threatening to quit frontline NHS work because they feel there is inadequate safety equipment....
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With so many people having to reinvent the way they work because of the coronavirus outbreak, Jo Faragher examines how HR professionals may overcome the many difficulties they are bound to face.
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Labour leadership candidate Keir Starmer has called for a national income guarantee scheme to limit the economic impact of the...
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Employers in London are bracing for a likely lockdown on travel and movement as authorities attempt to stop the spread...
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The Prime Minister has said that decisions will be taken “imminently” on school closures in England after devolved parliaments in...
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The government announced a £350bn package of financial measures yesterday (17 March) to protect employers from the impact of the...
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Business group the CBI has told MPs that “hundreds of thousands” of jobs could be at risk due to the...
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Amazon plans to hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the US to deal with a surge in online sales...
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Car manufacturer Vauxhall will close its Ellesmere Port plant for 10 days from today (17 March) over coronavirus fears.
The...