Recruitment & retention

Day-one rights signals the need for a more strategic approach to hiring, one that emphasises thorough pre-employment screening, careful referencing, and the potential extension of probation periods.

Salary transparency has hit “rock bottom” despite the number of job vacancies rising in July, according to new research.

A retired major has won a landmark case against the Ministry of Defence that could mean thousands of reservists will receive army pensions.

The number of active job postings in July 2024 increased by 2.4% from the previous month, new data has shown.

Dark clouds are gathering over the UK's higher education sector with myriad redundancies, axed departments and terminated courses all being implemented to rein in costs.

Strong performances in maths and sciences lead to best A-level results since 2010 if figures for pandemic years are discounted.

Indeed survey reveals that employers and workers are more appreciative of skills such as critical thinking and writing gained from academic courses rather than the direct skills learned.

Fewer than half of UK headquartered businesses are ready to meet the requirements of the European Union Pay Transparency directive.

More than half of UK professionals are quitting new roles because they do not meet their expectations, new research has revealed.

Former head sent a trainee who was in her first year of teaching at a junior school in King’s Lynn, Norfolk countless messages from the school’s social media accounts.

HR in August is all about minimum temperatures, clothing, holidays, temp cover, interns and free lollipops. Oh, and ‘lazy girl’ jobs. Whatever they are.

Young people are less interested in studying for a degree, the latest figures from Ucas show.

Hiring intentions in London are outpacing the rest of the UK, but the REC believes it could be encouraging news for the whole economy.

Care assistant who failed to disclose a murder charge has won her claim for unfair dismissal at Edinburgh Employment Tribunal.

The BBC is facing questions over why it continued to pay news presenter Huw Edwards his salary for five months after his arrest for possessing indecent images of children in November 2023.