Opinion

One of the central elements of the forthcoming general election campaign will be the debate around family friendly policies

Labour's success in promoting family-friendly employment legislation since it came to power in 1997 has prompted the other major parties to adopt at least a veneer of child-aware policies in the run up to the election

The government could not have picked a more appropriate day (1 April) for the new Operating and Financial Review (OFR) regulations to become law

Hats off to the Scottish government for succeeding in developing and implementing a new act that intends to prevent the...

Just a glance at the agenda for the annual RCN Society of OH nursing conference reveals the incredible breath of knowledge covered within the OH discipline

Memo to myself: must attend advanced electronic diary management course, buy wall chart and practise dealing with humiliations and climb-downs.This...

Not all workplace disputes can be settled by the 'win/lose' outcome that employment tribunals provide. Mediation could be the answer

Many people now work for networks rather than one organisation. Dynamic new arrangement or ploy for evading responsibility?

 Everyone, including the government, has assumed that what the working population wants is the choice to make their own decision...

Forging strong employer-trade union partnerships is as vital to successful employee relations in 2005 as it was three decades ago

You could see his dilemma: employees available 24-hours a-day versus the potential cost of 'BlackBerry thumb'

Like kumquats and mangoes, management theory does not really flourish in British soil, so we have always imported it from the US, and to a lesser extent Japan. Much of it has been hard to digest for reasons often ascribed to British pragmatism, although British philistinism may be as much to blame. Yet perhaps we never fully appreciated the delicacy and richness of what little home-grown stuff we do produce.

Recent publicity surrounding a claim by approximately 1,500 female hospital workers in North Cumbria should prompt managers to reassess the risk that current pay structures may have created, and address any imbalances. No doubt lawyers will come in for a certain amount of criticism for the expense this may cause, but they cannot be blamed for creating the inequality.

I had an inkling of what Lord H might want to discuss when I glimpsed the newspaper headline on his desk 'Bonking Boeing boss booted'.

The news that HR professionals are less likely to cope with life's most unsettling events than any other profession isn't in itself surprising, but it is worrying.