Following the beginning of the phasing-out of the default retirement age yesterday, The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) has called on employers and employees to consider how they will manage...
The CIPD has welcomed the commencement, from today, of the six-month process to scrap Default Retirement Age (DRA), but has called for an extension of the right to request flexible working to all...
It's like a runaway train: another week, another 'budgets slashed' announcement from public sector bosses and yet another HR department learns its fate.
Employers, particularly in the public sector, are braced for a surge of industrial action, with a third preparing to deal with their own staff downing tools on strike, CIPD research shows.
With councils up and down the country, Tower Hamlets is facing a massive financial challenge. Reductions in central government funding have left us with a £72 million hole to fill over the next three...
The public sector is clinging onto its best people with its fingertips. So says Graham White, who is HR director at Westminster City Council - and he is not the only one. Unprecedented cuts are...
Recruitment firm Hays has called on the Government to do more to provide clarity on how to implement changes to employment law. It also asks Whitehall to take greater steps to consult with UK business...
Minister of state at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Chris Grayling MP, will appear before the House of Lords Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee tomorrow (Tuesday 5 April) to defend...
For many working in the retail financial services sector and the HR professionals supporting them, 2012 is a significant deadline. Although there is a great deal of build-up, preparation and training...
The Finance Bill will force higher taxes onto expats working more than 10 days annually in the UK, according to accountancy firm PwC.
More than half of companies believe the imminent scrapping of the default retirement age (DRA) will lead to an increase in the number of tribunal claims over the next 12 months – despite attempts by...
The Ministry of Justice has published its guidance on the Bribery Act 2010, clarifying the ‘adequate procedures’ that a business should put in place to defend successfully a prosecution for failing to...
