Coronavirus

A proposed delay to the extension of IR35 rules to the private sector has failed to gain support in parliament....

Rolls-Royce is proposing a ‘major reorganisation’ that will involve at least 9,000 redundancies – around one-fifth of its global workforce....

Organisations are struggling to buy the protective equipment needed to make them ‘Covid-19 Secure’ and get employees back to work,...

Organisations bringing staff back into the workplace may have unwittingly purchased ineffective personal protective equipment (PPE) that may not offer...

More than 2 million people claimed unemployment benefit in April, as the coronavirus lockdown began to take its toll on...

Acas chief executive Susan Clews outlines some of the key points from its new mental health guidance and highlights some...

The Covid-19 is driving a surge in employees seeking out distance learning opportunities, according to The Open University.

As Mental Health Awareness Week begins this week, the conciliation service Acas has published new guidance to help employers and...

Chairman of Network Rail says employers can 'strongly influence people’s behaviour' when it comes to commuting, while government advice remains to only travel if you can't work at home.

The Bank of England’s chief economist: 'We're going back to the 1980s basically.'

Mental Health Awareness Week encourages employers to focus on 'kindness' at a time when workers throughout the world are beset by feelings of uncertainty.

With the focus within occupational health beginning to shift from the immediate healthcare challenges of managing Covid-19 to how workplaces...

Coronavirus uncertainty has caused a significant downturn in hiring intentions, an increase in planned redundancies and the likelihood of paltry...

On National Work from Home Day (15 May), organisations are being encouraged to use the ongoing lockdown restrictions to consider...

The government has filled just 8% of the contract tracer roles it had hoped to have in place by the...