A rise in net migration offers evidence that the temporary cap will do little to reduce net migration to the “tens of thousands”, according to the CIPD.
Fewer than two-thirds of employers have increased base pay in 2011, or are planning to, while roughly a quarter have frozen pay, or will, according to findings from the CIPD and rewards consultancy...
Most employers would agree that working for other organisations or undertaking re-training during periods of sick leave is an unacceptable situation which could have a detrimental impact on...
A British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey has revealed half of businesses identify health and safety ‘yellow tape’ as a burden.
The Big Issue – the magazine, which has been bought and sold for personal profit by homeless people for 20 years – is now to be sold by jobless people as well, to give them an income and sense of...
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.
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...
Coalition policy is failing to deliver the public sector innovation that could dramatically boost value for money and benefit the economy beyond the public sector, argues a report by The Work...
The CIPD gave a broad welcome to the principles and ambitions behind the Government’s Modern Workplaces consultation announced yesterday, and committed to continuing to work with the Department for...
Prime minister David Cameron and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg have set out the Government’s commitment to getting more vulnerable young people into work.
The Government is to launch a consultation today on the right to request flexible working for all working parents and shared leave for new parents, to encourage more fathers to take paternity leave.
With this year’s financial budgets now confirmed for local councils, HR professionals face the unenviable and difficult task of making employee cuts.
