Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Wellbeing
    • Occupational Health
    • 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

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Wellbeing
    • Occupational Health
    • 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

Author

Kat Baker

Kat Baker

    • Age discrimination
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Sex discrimination

    BBC newsreader recruitment drive could be ageist and sexist

    by Kat Baker 24 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 24 Sep 2009

    The BBC has announced it will positively seek to recruit a female newsreader over the age of 50, sparking claims...

    • Graduates
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Online recruitment

    Facebook and Twitter not the place for graduate recruitment

    by Kat Baker 23 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 23 Sep 2009

    Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter should not be used by employers to recruit graduates, the Association of...

    • Business performance
    • Apprenticeships
    • Early careers

    Train to Gain cash shortfall hampers employers’ climb out of recession

    by Kat Baker 23 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 23 Sep 2009

    Lack of cash for training places is delaying employers’ recovery from the recession, the Association of Learning Providers (ALP) has...

    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Pension Quality Mark backed by top employers

    by Kat Baker 22 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 22 Sep 2009

    Top employers including Kellogg’s and Accenture have thrown their weight behind the new Pension Quality Mark, saying it will improve...

    • Employment law

    Work Rights hotline will raise awareness of workplace rights

    by Kat Baker 22 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 22 Sep 2009

    The government has launched a helpline to advise both employers and their workers about employment rights.The Pay and Work Rights...

    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    Conservatives hint at JSA change for under-25s work experience

    by Kat Baker 22 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 22 Sep 2009

    The Conservatives have strongly hinted that they would look to change Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) rules to allow those on unpaid...

    • Business performance
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Executive pension funds £200m short

    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009

    British firms need to find £200m to plug a funding gap for the pensions of their top executives, the Guardian...

    • Business performance
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Swine flu hotline staff’s poor training puts lives at risk, doctors warn

    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009

    Swine flu hotline staff are poorly trained and are risking lives by misdiagnosing serious illnesses as flu, doctors have warned. A...

    • Bonuses
    • Business performance
    • Latest News

    Plans to curb bonuses should only apply to financial sector, IoD warns

    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009

    British firms outside of the financial sector should be protected from proposed changes to the bonus culture to prevent work...

    • Business performance
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Liberal Democrats call for a public sector pay freeze

    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009

    Vince Cable has called for public sector pay budgets to be frozen and some managerial posts to be axed in...

    • Business performance
    • Department for Education
    • Latest News

    Government to axe up to 3,000 education jobs

    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 21 Sep 2009

    Schools secretary Ed Balls has revealed government plans to cut up to 3,000 senior education positions, to save £2bn in...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • HR strategy

    Public sector job-cut threat is chance for HR to prove strategic value, says CIPD

    by Kat Baker 18 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 18 Sep 2009

    Public sector HR professionals should use the prospect of widespread job cuts to prove their strategic value to their organisations,...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Paternity
    • Equal pay

    New paternity rights do not address take-up or gender pay gap, warn campaign groups

    by Kat Baker 18 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 18 Sep 2009

    Campaign groups have warned that the government’s new paternity rights do not go far enough to encourage fathers to take...

    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    HR calls for tax breaks for hiring long-term unemployed

    by Kat Baker 17 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 17 Sep 2009

    HR professionals have backed calls for tax breaks to be given to businesses hiring the long-term unemployed.As unemployment reached 2.47...

    • Civil Service
    • Agency workers
    • Employee relations

    TUC Conference update: Gordon Brown on maternity pay; agency workers; civil service job cuts and more

    by Kat Baker 15 Sep 2009
    by Kat Baker 15 Sep 2009

    Prime minister Gordon Brown addressed the TUC annual congress today, on a range of employment issues. Here is a round...

Newer Posts
Older Posts

  • Work smart – stay well: Avoid unnecessary pain with centred ergonomics SPONSORED | If you often notice...Read more
  • Elevate your L&D strategy at the World of Learning 2025 SPONSORED | This October...Read more
  • How to employ a global workforce from the UK (webinar) WEBINAR | With an unpredictable...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 Live
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
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
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Wellbeing
    • Occupational Health
    • 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