Planning Christmas in a post-Weinstein world

As organisations turn their minds to planning this year's festive season, does HR need to take a tougher stance on Christmas parties and secret Santa gifts post-Weinstein and #MeToo?

Collecting criminal records during recruitment not GDPR-compliant

Charity Unlock has issued guidance for employers around hiring candidates with criminal records

Lower socio-economic backgrounds still underrepresented in law

People from lower socio-economic backgrounds are hugely underrepresented in the legal profession, research from The Bridge Group and The Sutton Trust has found

Bringing culture change home

A new mission, vision, values and strategic plan needed to be backed up by a shift to an achievement culture at Hyde Housing Association

Coming out at work is hard, but it doesn’t have to be

I never imagined that coming out at work would be the best career decision I ever made, but it has been

Employees need to be financially responsible

You can care about employees – most of us wouldn’t be in the role if we didn’t – but ultimately we run businesses not charities

Staff worried about #MeToo backlash over work relationships

Women being believed and men rejecting toxic masculinity means we're on the verge of big change around harassment at work

MPs: “Collective failure of leadership” in charity sex abuse “endemic”

The government has recommended four actions after a report found the sector guilty of “complacency verging on complicity”

Want a purpose? Ask your cleaner

When it comes to consumers and clients believing a company has a strong purpose, the messenger is, in many respects, more important than the message itself

Businesses not reporting key people data

FTSE 100 firms are failing to share important workforce data in their annual reports, according to the CIPD

Heffernan: KPIs and targets create “perverse outcomes”

Employees form high-achieving teams when organisations create conditions where helpfulness is possible

When not to collaborate

One barrier to overcome is the common conflation of collaboration with working together positively