With less than a month to go until the 2011 Wimbledon Championships, the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has increased its work to tackle homophobia in sport, including among its own employees.
Nearly three-quarters of employers want employment tribunals to have greater powers in removing weak or vexatious employment claims from the system, a recent survey finds.
Paul Kennedy, HR director at footwear manufacturer New Balance, has left the organisation to work for Sportsonomy, a talent and development consultancy for the sports industry.
The removal of the default retirement age means that a growing number of baby boomers who had been expecting to retire are now not going anywhere – and having to share their workplace with the...
The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) Corporation has launched its auto-enrolment website for staff to join the scheme, and is already working with employers to implement the new pension...
HR hasn’t got much longer to go, as HR directors are struggling to work to a model that no longer exists. It needs to reinvent itself, and fast. That was the revelation Graham White (pictured), HR...
There is no ‘silver bullet’ for employee engagement – but the secret is to find out what you do well in your business and make sure this is done all the time, according to Caffè Nero’s HR director,...
The best talent rarely becomes available to recruiters today, because it is being cherished by its existing employer, according to Oracle’s HR director. The challenge to employers is to grow a talent...
Mental health has overtaken musculoskeletal issues as the primary cause of staff absence in the UK and Europe, according to data released by Mercer.
BT Engage IT, the IT services division of BT, has embarked on its biggest recruitment drive to date, and is looking to employ more than 40 IT sales professionals in the next six months, as the initial...
Research from HSBC has found that 29% of people feel their job is not secure over the next 12 months. Older public sector workers feel particularly vulnerable, with 37% of public sector workers over...
The impact on the labour market of a slight rise in private sector recruitment is still being cancelled out by large-scale public sector job losses, according to this quarter’s Labour Market Outlook...
