The addition of an extra bank holiday to the calendar could create a sticking point between employers and employees.
Companies across the UK have signed the Freelance Charter drawn up by freelance platform UnderPinned which aims to protect the rights of self-employed workers.
Shift work may not be as flexible as advertised, as many workers are given little notice to plan their lives.
Ethical failures, like the recent firing of 800 staff without consultation by ferry company P&O, can prove costly to business and seriously damage people’s lives. Employers – and HR – say experts...
More than half (52%) of UK full-time employees did not take a single sick day in the 12 months since February 2021.
Women in the UK work on average almost 2 hours (1.7 hours) more overtime per week than men.
The average value of a pension fund for a single mother in the UK has dropped by 40% since the start of the pandemic.
UK employers are advertising pensions, sick pay and training as job perks despite them being obliged to offer them by law.
Nearly a third (32%) of working adults in the UK are given less than a week’s notice of their working hours, research published by the Living Wage Foundation (LWF) has found.
The CIPD Northern Ireland has published its first manifesto outlining what the region's HR professionals want from a post-Covid recovery, tackling the impact of the pandemic, Brexit and the NI...
After a successful trial of digital right to work (RTW) checks during the pandemic, the UK government has committed to make the move permanent, starting 6 April 2022.
Branches of Waterstones and Matalan are among 208 businesses called out by the government this week for failing to pay employees the minimum wage between 2014 and 2019.
