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HR practice

by Hannah Vickery 24 Oct 2013
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  • Employment law
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  • Webinars

Day one rights in the Employment Rights Bill (webinar)

by Rob Moss
10 Sep 2025
16 October 2025 | Register now for our webinar looking at day one rights and unfair dismissal rules and how they will change with the government's employment law reforms.
Hearing loss
  • Conditions
  • Occupational Health
  • Health surveillance

Managing risk assessments for employees who are deaf or have hearing loss

by Dan Morgan-Williams
9 Sep 2025

Risk assessments for employees who are deaf or have hearing loss may not always be straightforward. But, writes Dan Morgan-Williams,...

commuters
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  • Graduates
  • Labour turnover

Employees more likely to be staying put and ‘job hugging’

by Nic Paton
9 Sep 2025

In a sluggish and competitive jobs market, employees are prioritising holding on to their roles and ‘job hugging’ is on...

An HR team at work
  • Automation
  • Change management
  • Employee engagement

Bigger budgets, but greater scrutiny – welcome to HR in 2026

by Nic Paton
9 Sep 2025

HR teams in the UK and Europe can look forward to having bigger budgets to play with next year –...

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Agency workers

NHS agency worker ban staff retention: Photo shows a blurred hospital corridor with clinical staff.
  • Agency workers
  • NHS
  • Latest News

Agency crackdown won’t cure NHS staffing crisis alone

by Dr Anas Nader
5 Sep 2025

With the Recruitment and Employment Confederation urging the government to rethink its proposed ban on agency staff working in the...

NHS agency staff ban petition, Nurses, pictured on a ward.
  • Agency workers
  • NHS
  • Latest News

Petition calls for rethink on NHS agency staff ban

by Rob Moss
19 Aug 2025

Petition calling on government to stop plan to ban agency staff in NHS attracts thousands of signatures.

  • Agency workers
  • Employment law
  • Latest News

Court of Appeal rules that Ryanair agency pilot is worker

by Jo Faragher
9 Jul 2025

A Ryanair pilot has won a landmark legal victory on agency worker status at the Court of Appeal.

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Absence

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Civil service absence on track to report record high

by Jo Faragher
6 Aug 2025

Absences in the civil service could be up to more than eight days per worker per year, according to sickness data published by departments.

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  • Absence
  • Health and safety
  • Discipline

Top 10 HR questions July 2025: Unauthorised absence

by Brightmine
1 Aug 2025

The top HR questions in July 2025 include one on what to do if an employee fails to turn up for work.

HR stress
  • Stress
  • Absence
  • Counselling

With HR absence rising, is your people team at risk of breaking?

by Tracey Paxton
24 Jun 2025

When ‘the people team’ – HR – breaks, the whole business suffers. Tracey Paxton makes the case for why HR...

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Performance management

Hearing loss
  • Conditions
  • Occupational Health
  • Health surveillance

Managing risk assessments for employees who are deaf or have hearing loss

by Dan Morgan-Williams
9 Sep 2025

Risk assessments for employees who are deaf or have hearing loss may not always be straightforward. But, writes Dan Morgan-Williams,...

An HR team at work
  • Automation
  • Change management
  • Employee engagement

Bigger budgets, but greater scrutiny – welcome to HR in 2026

by Nic Paton
9 Sep 2025

HR teams in the UK and Europe can look forward to having bigger budgets to play with next year –...

  • Financial services
  • Latest News
  • Redundancy

Lloyds Banking Group to target underperformers for job cuts

by Jo Faragher
5 Sep 2025

Lloyds Banking Group will use performance management measures to put around 5% of its staff at risk of dismissal, according to reports.

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Relationships at work

Barrister sexual relations ban
  • Sexual harassment
  • Bullying and harassment
  • Legal sector

Report calls for ban on barristers’ sexual relations with juniors

by Rob Moss
8 Sep 2025

Review of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the Bar recommends ban on sexual relations between barristers and juniors.

How to manage workplave investigations. Photo shows dismissed Nestlé CEO Laurent Freixe.
  • Sexual harassment
  • Discipline
  • Discipline and grievances

How to manage workplace investigations effectively

by Kate Kapp
5 Sep 2025

Following Nestlé’s dismissal of its CEO Laurent Freixe, Kate Kapp examines how organisations should manage workplace invesigations.

Laurent Freixe, CEO, has been sacked by Nestlé with immediate effect.
  • Corporate governance
  • Ethics
  • Manufacturing

Nestlé sacks CEO over ‘undisclosed’ romantic affair

by Nic Paton
2 Sep 2025

Swiss food and drink giant Nestlé has sacked its chief executive officer Laurent Freixe “with immediate effect” because he failed...

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Work-life balance

Engineers
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Engineers prioritising benefits over pay

by Nic Paton
14 Jul 2025

More than half of engineering professionals would happily trade higher salaries for better benefits, more meaningful roles or improved work-life...

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  • Hybrid working
  • Latest News
  • Flexible working

Four-day working: ‘We need to start treating people like the adults they are’

by Alex Voakes
2 Jul 2025

Employer of record (EOR) provider Peak PEO has been moving to a four-day working week model since 2023 and introduced...

  • Manufacturing
  • Latest News
  • Recruitment & retention

UK engineering and manufacturing firms face hiring struggles

by Jo Faragher
23 Jun 2025

Six in 10 hiring managers in the UK manufacturing and engineering sector have struggled to hire in the past year,...

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Workforce planning

NHS agency worker ban staff retention: Photo shows a blurred hospital corridor with clinical staff.
  • Agency workers
  • NHS
  • Latest News

Agency crackdown won’t cure NHS staffing crisis alone

by Dr Anas Nader
5 Sep 2025

With the Recruitment and Employment Confederation urging the government to rethink its proposed ban on agency staff working in the...

  • HR software
  • Latest News
  • Skills shortages

How to stop flying blind with workforce planning

by Sarah Lardner
3 Sep 2025

How can HR keep up with rapidly changing job specifications and skills needs when it's so hard to predict what the future of work looks like?

Boardroom - two men discussing
  • Latest News
  • Executive recruitment
  • Leadership

UK large companies’ succession planning is weak – research

by Adam McCulloch
29 Aug 2025

A lack of succession planning has led most of the UK’s largest listed companies to chose external candidates as their new chief executive, a trend not seen elsewhere in Europe or in the US.

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