Employers have been warned about giving negligent references on ex-employees following a recent High Court case.
The number of age discrimination claims has increased by 164% to 2,900 in the three months to December 2010, compared to 1,100 the year before, an analysis of the latest data show.
Cheryl Cole has been axed from the US version of the X Factor because of fears the American audience wouldn’t be able to understand her strong Geordie accent.
Employer awareness to act on the Agency Workers Regulation is increasing, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).
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.
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.
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...
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.
