Simon Kent

A sickness absence initiative at York Council is providing access to occupational health nurses by phone when employees are too ill to go to work

With staff shortages creating concerns across the prison service, Simon Kent looks
at the problems faced by HMP Wandsworth, and how it plans to resolve them

The legislative and business imperatives for having
a diverse workforce are clear, but where does assessment fit into this? Simon Kent investigates

The home computing initiative provides employers with a great tax-free employee benefit.

Small companies can teach larger organisations a thing or two about keeping employees interested by getting them engaged with the business. Simon Kent takes a look at Snowdrop Systems

Official research estimates domestic violence costs employers and workers around £2.7bn a year. So what exactly can employers do to address this serious and most sensitive of issues?

Get your time and attendance system running smoothly, and your HR team will benefit from more accurate data and reporting.

With customers becoming more abusive towards front-line staff, organisations need to know where to draw the line between what employees should and should not have to put up with.

HR must be on top of the health and safety issues that affect company car drivers.

Introducing a drug and alcohol abuse policy will not be straightforward as employees are wary of their justification, but it...

Is the UK standing at the brink of a new wave of industrial action with unions gaining new powers and...