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Nic Paton is consultant editor at Personnel Today. One of the country's foremost workplace health journalists, Nic has written for Personnel Today and Occupational Health & Wellbeing since 2001, and edited the magazine from 2018.

    • Artificial intelligence
    • Automation
    • Latest News

    Google to create 8,250 AI jobs as part of £5bn UK investment

    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2025

    Alphabet, the tech giant owner of Google, has said it intends to invest £5bn ($6.8bn) over the next two years...

    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business
    • Inflation

    Jobs market continuing to stagnate, says official data

    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2025

    The jobs market continued to stagnate over the summer, with pay growth and vacancies both falling and redundancies rising, latest...

    • Occupational Health
    • Mental health
    • Latest News

    Call for a national OH service to tackle rising sickness absence

    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2025

    The UK needs to establish a national occupational health service alongside the NHS to help tackle, and support, the rising...

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
    • Latest News

    Right to request flexible working has had limited impact

    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 16 Sep 2025

    The ‘right to request’ that employees now have to ask for flexible working has only had limited impact on how...

    • Careers advice
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Latest News

    MPs urge ministers to step up pace of careers service reform

    by Nic Paton 11 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 11 Sep 2025

    MPs have urged the government ‘urgently’ to bring forward more details on its plans to create a new merged jobs...

    • Employment tribunals
    • Race discrimination
    • Sex discrimination

    Bar manager told she looked ‘very Aryan’ wins £18k at tribunal

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2025

    A bar manager who was told by her boss that she looked “very Aryan with your blue eyes and blonde...

    • Latest News
    • Graduates
    • Recruitment & retention

    Employees more likely to be staying put and ‘job hugging’

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2025

    In a sluggish and competitive jobs market, employees are prioritising holding on to their roles and ‘job hugging’ is on...

    • Carers
    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Women less confident of achieving pay or leadership parity

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2025

    Only two-fifths of women (41%) globally expect that the gender pay gap will be closed for their generation, with confidence...

    • Automation
    • Change management
    • Employee engagement

    Bigger budgets, but greater scrutiny – welcome to HR in 2026

    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 9 Sep 2025

    HR teams in the UK and Europe can look forward to having bigger budgets to play with next year –...

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Jobcentres more about benefits than work, say MPs

    by Nic Paton 8 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 8 Sep 2025

    Rather than places where people are helped to find work, Jobcentres have “become centres for monitoring compliance with benefit conditions”,...

    • Compensation
    • Latest News
    • Pay & benefits

    Pay awards feeling tightest squeeze since December 2021

    by Nic Paton 8 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 8 Sep 2025

    Pay awards felt the squeeze in the three months to July, coming in at a median of 3%, down from...

    • Cancer
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Director with cancer treated unfairly over pay, rules tribunal

    by Nic Paton 5 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 5 Sep 2025

    A finance and IT director who was diagnosed with cancer experienced harassment when he was denied a pay increase and...

    • Research
    • Occupational Health
    • Sickness absence

    Working with pesticides linked to higher risk of respiratory illness

    by Nic Paton 4 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 4 Sep 2025

    People working with pesticides can be at higher risk of respiratory illnesses, and this may often go undiagnosed, research has...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Mental health

    Third of employees ‘anxious’ about lack of workplace first aiders

    by Nic Paton 3 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Sep 2025

    A third of employees (34%) feel anxious about having a lack of trained first aiders in their workplace, according to...

    • Corporate governance
    • Ethics
    • Manufacturing

    Nestlé sacks CEO over ‘undisclosed’ romantic affair

    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 2 Sep 2025

    Swiss food and drink giant Nestlé has sacked its chief executive officer Laurent Freixe “with immediate effect” because he failed...

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