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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.

    • Brexit
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    Manufacturing headcount falls at fastest rate since 2010

    by Rob Moss 22 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 22 Oct 2019

    The CBI’s quarterly industrial trends survey has seen the fastest fall in headcount since April 2010, with firms anticipating an...

    • Financial services
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Accountancy firms lagging behind business on diversity

    by Rob Moss 22 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 22 Oct 2019

    Research by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has shown that the audit and accountancy profession is lagging behind business for...

    • Health and safety
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    • Health & Safety Executive

    Most construction firms would fail or ‘scrape through’ HSE inspections

    by Rob Moss 21 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 21 Oct 2019

    Two thirds of construction companies say they would fail or might only “scrape through” an on-the-spot site inspection by the...

    • Brexit
    • Employee relations
    • Employment law

    Workers’ rights ‘watered down’ in Johnson’s Brexit deal

    by Rob Moss 18 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 18 Oct 2019

    The issue of what happens to workers’ rights has become a central plank in the Brexit debate as MPs prepare...

    • Case law
    • Data protection
    • Latest News

    Spanish supermarket covert surveillance did not violate human rights

    by Rob Moss 17 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 17 Oct 2019

    The European Court of Human Rights has overturned a previous judgment it made in the case of López Ribalda and...

    • Employee engagement
    • Latest News
    • Wellbeing

    ‘Conclusive link’ between happiness and productivity

    by Rob Moss 17 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 17 Oct 2019

    It has long been suggested that happy workers are more productive, but now research from the University of Oxford has...

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Unemployment may be three times higher than statistics suggest

    by Rob Moss 17 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 17 Oct 2019

    The amount of “hidden” unemployment in the UK means that the number of people out of work could be nearly...

    • Careers in HR
    • Latest News
    • The HR profession

    BBC appoints group HR directors in job share

    by Rob Moss 16 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 16 Oct 2019

    The BBC has jointly appointed Wendy Aslett and Rachel Currie to the role of group HR director, replacing Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth,...

    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Latest News

    Mentoring key to building diverse leadership

    by Rob Moss 16 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 16 Oct 2019

    Businesses where women occupy more than 30% senior leadership roles are more likely to nurture ambition, with a quarter (27%)...

    • Latest News
    • Family-friendly working
    • Flexible working

    Consultation closes with huge support for family friendly transparency

    by Rob Moss 11 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 11 Oct 2019

    As the government consultation into whether employers should have to publish their family-related leave and flexible working policies comes to...

    • Police
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    • Recruitment & retention

    Details of first wave of police recruitment unveiled

    by Rob Moss 9 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 9 Oct 2019

    The Home Office has published police recruitment targets for every force in England and Wales for 2020-21.
    Under the campaign,...

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Job creation and losses

    Hays Travel buys Thomas Cook shops saving 2,500 jobs

    by Rob Moss 9 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 9 Oct 2019

    As many as 2,500 jobs at Thomas Cook could be saved after Hays Travel agreed to buy the collapsed travel...

    • Brexit
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    • Economics, government & business

    Productivity puzzle persists with fastest fall in five years

    by Rob Moss 8 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 8 Oct 2019

    UK productivity in April to June fell at its fastest pace since 2014, when compared to the same quarter last...

    • Police
    • Health and safety
    • Latest News

    Police service discriminated against man with moustache

    by Rob Moss 8 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 8 Oct 2019

    A police constable has won a sex discrimination claim after an industrial tribunal found that the Police Service of Northern...

    • China
    • Brexit
    • France

    Warnings as Brexit and China stifle recruitment firms

    by Rob Moss 8 Oct 2019
    by Rob Moss 8 Oct 2019

    Two of the UK’s largest recruitment firms have both issued lacklustre trading statements as market conditions deteriorate, a trend confirmed with the latest data from the UK resourcing industry.

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