Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Author

John Charlton

John Charlton

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Court hears appeal on including tips in minimum wage calculations

    by John Charlton 16 Jan 2009
    by John Charlton 16 Jan 2009

    Court of Appeal judges are mulling over a challenge by upmarket Mayfair nightclub Annabel’s to an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT)...

    • Careers in HR
    • Learning & development
    • The HR profession

    Leadership developer Rachel Burlton

    by John Charlton 14 Jan 2009
    by John Charlton 14 Jan 2009

    Rachel Burlton found leadership development such a powerful force that she headed to London to embrace it. She's since discovered succession planning.
    Graduates and final-year students still expect more than a bowl of muesli from employers. And training is at the top of their wish list, according to a poll by recruiter TMP Worldwide .

    • Learning & development

    Stuck in a lift with…Vanessa Frampton

    by John Charlton 11 Jan 2009
    by John Charlton 11 Jan 2009

    How did you get to where you are now?I took a fairly traditional route, working my way up the HR...

    • Employee relations
    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Muslim bank worker sues HBOS for £16.7m for alleged discrimination

    by John Charlton 7 Jan 2009
    by John Charlton 7 Jan 2009

    Muslim bank worker Mona Awad is suing her former employer Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) for £16.7m for alleged sexual,...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Christian registrar Ladele plans appeal in gay partnerships case

    by John Charlton 6 Jan 2009
    by John Charlton 6 Jan 2009

    Christian registrar Lillian Ladele’s lawyer has asked permission to appeal a recent ruling by an Employment Appeal Tribunal that her...

    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    More than half UK workers fear for their jobs

    by John Charlton 12 Dec 2008
    by John Charlton 12 Dec 2008

    Fifty seven per cent of the UK workforce fear for their jobs next year, according to a Learning & Skills...

    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Training spend in 2009: middle managers win, coaching loses

    by John Charlton 9 Dec 2008
    by John Charlton 9 Dec 2008

    Training spend in 2009 will hold steady with middle managers a main focus, but coaching will suffer, claimed a survey...

    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    MPs cast doubts on government’s apprenticeship masterplan

    by John Charlton 5 Dec 2008
    by John Charlton 5 Dec 2008

    A select committee report out today casts doubt on whether the Learning & Skills Council (LSC) will be able to...

    • Employment law
    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Right to request time off for training gets cautious welcome

    by John Charlton 4 Dec 2008
    by John Charlton 4 Dec 2008

    Government plans to give employees the right to seek time off for training, outlined in the Queen’s Speech yesterday, have...

    • Employment law

    Web technology: when to use caution

    by John Charlton 1 Dec 2008
    by John Charlton 1 Dec 2008

    Without a doubt the worldwide web has brought many benefits since its inception in the early 1990s – apart from...

    • Bullying and harassment
    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    AA faces more days in court after ‘bullied’ ex-employee wins at tribunal

    by John Charlton 27 Nov 2008
    by John Charlton 27 Nov 2008

    A ‘bullied’ former hotel inspector has won her case for unfair dismissal against the Automobile Association (AA) and plans further...

    • Movers and shakers
    • Learning & development

    Careerfile: Simon Bailey, Winning Pitch

    by John Charlton 18 Nov 2008
    by John Charlton 18 Nov 2008

    Simon Bailey was told he had 10 seconds to decide if he wanted to be a trainer. After seven, he...

    • Personnel Today

    Work-based training: He who pays the piper may well call the training tune

    by John Charlton 18 Nov 2008
    by John Charlton 18 Nov 2008

    In recent months we’ve seen the government interfering more and more in work-based training and learning. Does it mean that...

    • Employment law
    • Working Time Regulations

    Analysis: Agency Workers Directive

    by John Charlton 14 Nov 2008
    by John Charlton 14 Nov 2008

    Most will know the pig Napoleon’s comment from Orwell’s Animal Farm that “some animals are more equal than others”.The same...

    • Employment law
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Employment tribunals

    Muslim sisters take race discrimination claim to tribunal

    by John Charlton 14 Nov 2008
    by John Charlton 14 Nov 2008

    Muslim twin sisters are pursuing religious and race discrimination claims which could lead to huge payouts, while an Asian accountant...

Newer Posts
Older Posts

  • Empowering working parents and productivity during the summer holidays SPONSORED | Businesses play a...Read more
  • AI is here. Your workforce should be ready. SPONSORED | From content creation...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2025

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2025 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+