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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.

    • IR35
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    • Public sector

    IR35: HMRC’s defence of status tool is like ‘climate change denial’

    by Rob Moss 23 May 2019
    by Rob Moss 23 May 2019

    Campaigners have accused HM Revenue & Customs of acting in a manner “akin to climate change denial” in its defence...

    • Latest News
    • Public sector
    • Trade unions

    RMT union secures two-year pay deal with Network Rail

    by Rob Moss 22 May 2019
    by Rob Moss 22 May 2019

    The RMT Union has won an above-inflation pay deal with Network Rail and has written to the track and infrastructure...

    • Latest News
    • Selection interviews
    • Testing & assessment

    Recruitment: how overconfidence can suppress social mobility

    by Rob Moss 21 May 2019
    by Rob Moss 21 May 2019

    Confidence may be a welcome attribute in a job applicant but overconfidence, suggests new research, can drive inequalities, stifle social...

    • Corporate governance
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    • Outsourcing

    Capita appoints two employees to board

    by Rob Moss 15 May 2019
    by Rob Moss 15 May 2019

    Outsourcing giant Capita has appointed two employees as non-executive directors, becoming the first FTSE 250 company since the late 1980s...

    • Case law
    • NHS
    • Discipline

    Proselytising Christian nurse loses second appeal against dismissal

    by Rob Moss 14 May 2019
    by Rob Moss 14 May 2019

    A nurse in Kent dismissed for “preaching” to patients has lost a second appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that...

    • Case law
    • Latest News
    • Working Time Regulations

    ECJ: Employers must ensure staff are not overworking

    by Rob Moss 14 May 2019
    by Rob Moss 14 May 2019

    The European Court of Justice has ruled that employers must take steps to make sure their staff are not exceeding...

    • Discipline
    • Latest News
    • Public sector

    Prison service launched 6,600 disciplinary investigations in five years

    by Rob Moss 30 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 30 Apr 2019

    Nearly 2,700 prison staff in England and Wales were disciplined between 2013 and 2018 according to data released under the...

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Part-time working

    NHS consultants ‘better off’ working part-time

    by Rob Moss 25 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 25 Apr 2019

    Senior doctors in the NHS are better off working part-time under new pension rules, the British Medical Association has warned....

    • Sexual harassment
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    • HR practice

    Three quarters of people want less physical contact at work

    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2019

    Three quarters of UK workers (76%) want the amount of physical contact they experience in the workplace reduced, while 42%...

    • Early careers
    • Latest News
    • Education - school

    Work experience should be compulsory says FSB

    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2019

    The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is calling on the government to reintroduce work experience for all school pupils aged...

    • Brexit
    • STEM
    • Agency workers

    Reliance on agency workers increases as confidence in economy drops

    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 24 Apr 2019

    UK employers are increasingly likely to hire agency workers amid continuing falls in confidence in the economy, according to the...

    • Latest News
    • Pensions

    Pensions row threatens Virgin and Stagecoach rail operations

    by Rob Moss 11 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 11 Apr 2019

    A row over the rail industry’s central pension scheme could see Virgin Trains cease operating in the UK later this...

    • Shared parental leave
    • Latest News
    • Paternity

    Shared parental leave should be ‘overhauled’

    by Rob Moss 5 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 5 Apr 2019

    Shared parental leave is unaffordable for most working families and should be overhauled, according to the TUC.

    Shared parental leave...

    • Adoption
    • Enhanced pay
    • Shared parental leave

    Diageo announces six months’ paid parental leave

    by Rob Moss 3 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 3 Apr 2019

    Drinks giant Diageo has announced a new policy to offer men and women 52 weeks’ parental leave with the first...

    • Benefits
    • Latest News
    • Learning & development

    Starbucks to pay for employees’ degrees

    by Rob Moss 2 Apr 2019
    by Rob Moss 2 Apr 2019

    Starbucks has announced it will fund UK employees through a Bachelor’s degree, in an expansion of its US education programme....

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