Recruitment & retention

HR teams and recruiters face a growing onslaught of identity fraud thanks to sophisticated AI tools. How can they ensure that candidates are who they say they are?

In a letter to Labour’s shadow foreign secretary MPs and peers asked for a bespoke youth visa scheme for UK and EU citizens under 30. 

Interviews are an opportunity to elevate and empower professionals through honest feedback, regardless of whether they secure the role.

Compared with 2024, the number of directors that cited succession planning as a difficult issue to oversee has more than doubled in the US.

Police chiefs will be able to automatically dismiss officers who fail background screening under new government measures.

Teachers in England could launch strike action if the government does not offer a higher pay rise for the next...

SME hiring falls from 24% of companies in Q4 2024 to 20% in Q1 2025, while 17% have cut back on staff, according to the BCC.

Younger workers who started work after the pandemic expect to be paid more to work in the office full time, according to a study by BSI and think-tank Respublica.

Of all businesses surveyed about right to work checks, 80% answered at least one compliance question incorrectly, and are at risk of non-compliance.

Almost half of UK companies are scaling back on recruitment in response to the increase in employers’ national insurance contributions.

'Army' of young people to be trained for green energy jobs and apprenticeships needed to deliver clean power by 2030. 

Employment tribunal finds part-time lecturer at London-based Capital City College (CCC) faced less favourable treatment.

External whistleblowing protections do not extend to external job applicants, after a ruling by the Court of Appeal.

For the very first time, the Home Office stated, employment checks would be extended to cover businesses hiring gig economy and zero-hours workers.

More than one in seven UK employees have experienced some form of workplace abuse, according to a wide-ranging survey into...