Employees with uncontrolled asthma earn around £3,000 less per year than the average adult due to limited work opportunities.
Staff understand that things aren’t easy right now and many will have already written off a mid-pandemic pay rise, but if you can show you’re grateful for their hard graft, they will appreciate it,...
"How much are you currently earning?" is a question hated by many job applicants – and rightly so. When I’m asked this question it makes me feel like I’m stepping into a trap, showing my cards, and...
Proposed changes to Uber drivers' rights could have wide-reaching effects for the European gig economy.
Single parents are unable to work their way out of debt despite working full time, a new report by charities Gingerbread and StepChange has discovered.
Workers’ personal lives have suffered due to pandemic-related pay cuts and a commitment to a real living wage could help retain staff and productivity levels in the still-turbulent months ahead.
2021 looks set to be another unpredictable year. HR played a vital role in helping employers through the uncertainty and challenges brought on by the pandemic in 2020 and, although many of those...
New changes brought in by government will mean cabinet ministers will soon be able to take six months maternity leave on full pay.
The UK’s roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine began in December 2020. In response London plumbing firm, Pimlico Plumbers, has said it will be introducing a so called ‘no jab, no job’ policy as soon as...
COVID-19 has continued to cause large disparities in the UK’s workforce, as new research has found that the lowest paid are the ones most likely to have lost their income.
?January was far from a quiet month for HR. We look back at some of the month’s most read stories just in case you missed them the first time around.
Last week, consumer goods company Unilever said that it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its employees by 2030.