Opinion

Want to see the real picture of ageism in the UK? Well, here goes...

Age discrimination seems quite obvious to me. This legislation is a no-brainer. How on earth can you discriminate on the grounds of age when our population is clearly getting older?

I have to add my own rant about how bad HR departments are at recruiting their own staff. I can...

Neil Hayward, group HR director, Gallaher Group

Last week’s coverage of the shock survey by Cranfield University prompted some pretty horrified responses. How could it be that...

I read your article from Alan Johnson MP, then secretary of state for trade and industry, ‘Justifying age-based practices’ (Employment...

HR was once where biscuits, tissues, tea and sympathy were dispensed to distraught colleagues. That touchy-feely image has now been...

 Some of you may have had to blink and look twice at the statistics on our front page. After all...

We recently completed our annual employee opinion survey, and are now awaiting the results

Duncan Brown, assistant director-general, CIPD, on performance management

The publication last week of two reports into the 7 July terrorist attacks in London, coupled with the findings of...

We at Personnel Today are delighted to have won the recognition of our peers at the 'Oscars' of the publishing world - the PPA Awards

Just like the proverbial cobblers' shoes or dentists' teeth, HR can often be guilty of not looking after its own career or developmental needs

What became increasingly evident to me in this session was that there is a very narrow bandwidth of acceptable behaviour for many women in the workplace

So, only 22% of respondents to the Personnel Today barometer poll would take up the challenge of workforce director at the Department of Health (2 May). No wonder businesses regard HR as light, fluffy and non-strategic