Manufacturer Brunner Mond, part of Tata Chemicals, is to roll out a new workforce management system across its two UK plants, which produce chemicals such as soda ash, sodium bicarbonate and calcium...

Telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent has launched a talent management and development programme for 70,000 staff across the globe.

Using the web for recruitment is now a given, not a maybe. So let’s briefly explore this new landscape and see how we can best tap into the power it brings.

"If you are looking to employ a manager to start working at your company in four weeks' time, you're starting a year too late," says Pete Crosby, chief sales officer of Viadeo.

'It won't happen to me.' For many organisations, this is still the extent of their computer incident response plan.

It may seem odd to think of soldiers as being like other employees - employees do not usually risk their lives on a daily basis. Yet the 38 warrant officers given notice of redundancy this week by...

Four councils are coming together to share HR and payroll services in order to cut costs and deliver better value-for-money to the taxpayer.

With absenteeism costing 30 billion a year, business must start addressing the issues behind the problem.

While the possibility of hiring someone who may pose a direct criminal threat can seem rare, the latest figures from the fraud prevention service CIFAS remind us just how serious a threat insider...

When times get tough, the tough get going, but HR is receiving little thanks for its efforts in recession.

The Engineering Employers' Federation has forecast that manufacturing in the UK will outperform other sectors and help fuel "better-balanced" economic growth.

The London Fire Brigade has issued a warning over the dangers of hair straighteners in the office ahead of Christmas parties.