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Rob Moss is a business journalist with more than 25 years' experience. He has been editor of Personnel Today since 2010. He joined the publication in 2006 as online editor of the award-winning website. Rob specialises in labour market economics, gender diversity and family-friendly working. He has hosted hundreds of webinar and podcasts. Before writing about HR and employment he ran news and feature desks on publications serving the global optical and eyewear market, the UK electrical industry, and energy markets in Asia and the Middle East.

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    • Leave

    HR investigated after man skipped work for 15 years

    by Rob Moss 22 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 22 Apr 2021

    Two HR professionals are under investigation after a hospital ‘worker’ in southern Italy was found not to have shown up for a shift in 15 years.

    • Coronavirus
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    Address ‘chronic undersupply’ of NHS staff, PM told

    by Rob Moss 21 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 21 Apr 2021

    In a letter representing 1.4 million NHS staff, Boris Johnson has been warned that the pressure of working in a...

    • Apprenticeships
    • Department for Education
    • Latest News

    Flexible apprenticeships consultation launched

    by Rob Moss 20 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 20 Apr 2021

    The Education and Skills Funding Agency has launched a consultation on the new ‘flexible’ apprenticeship, announced in the budget, and...

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Unemployment falls below 5% despite lockdown

    by Rob Moss 20 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 20 Apr 2021

    UK unemployment fell to 4.9% in the three months to the end of February even though much of the economy...

    • Case law
    • Collective bargaining
    • Local authorities

    Court of Appeal rules foster carers can unionise

    by Rob Moss 16 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 16 Apr 2021

    Foster carers are “workers” and have the right to unionise, according to a ruling today by the Court of Appeal....

    • Latest News
    • Mental health
    • Third sector

    NCT accused of ‘racism’ by parenting practitioners

    by Rob Moss 16 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 16 Apr 2021

    A union said that some of the National Childbirth Trust's practitioners were being “bullied” by the trust’s quality assurance procedures.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Financial services
    • Disability discrimination

    Barclays banker given £10k pay-out in toilet access case

    by Rob Moss 15 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 15 Apr 2021

    A tribunal has found Barclays had failed to make reasonable adjustments for a banker who had Crohn's disease.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Recruitment rebounds as lockdown loosens

    by Rob Moss 8 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 8 Apr 2021

    Recruitment is on the way up according to the latest UK Report on Jobs from REC and KPMG...

    • Military
    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    National insurance relief for hiring veterans starts today

    by Rob Moss 6 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 6 Apr 2021

    Employers hiring military veterans can, from today, apply for relief on national insurance contributions (NICs) for the first 12 months of employment.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • HR strategy

    Remote working job ads jump 233%

    by Rob Moss 6 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 6 Apr 2021

    The number of roles advertised as ‘remote working’ in the UK jumped to almost 78,000 in February.

    • Collective redundancy
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    1,500 more jobs to go at John Lewis

    by Rob Moss 24 Mar 2021
    by Rob Moss 24 Mar 2021

    John Lewis Partnership has announced that it will keep eight of its 42 John Lewis stores closed when retail restrictions ease, putting 1,465 jobs at risk.

    • Shielding
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    Sickness absence rate at record low

    by Rob Moss 3 Mar 2021
    by Rob Moss 3 Mar 2021

    Covid-19 may have led to additional sickness absence, measures such as furlough, social distancing, shielding and working from home appear to have helped reduce other causes of absence.

    • Case law
    • Bullying and harassment
    • Latest News

    Christian actress loses legal case after anti-LGBT comments

    by Rob Moss 17 Feb 2021
    by Rob Moss 17 Feb 2021

    An actress who was stripped of a role following the discovery of anti-gay comments on Facebook has lost a tribunal...

    • Coronavirus
    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Covid-19: Government policies ‘exacerbated’ gender inequality

    by Rob Moss 9 Feb 2021
    by Rob Moss 9 Feb 2021

    Policies launched in response to the pandemic have overlooked well-understood labour market and caring inequalities faced by women.

    • USA
    • Latest News
    • Tech sector

    Google to pay $3.8m for discriminating against thousands

    by Rob Moss 2 Feb 2021
    by Rob Moss 2 Feb 2021

    The US Department of Labor has reached a settlement with Google to resolve allegations of systemic gender and race discrimination.

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