Operational Efficiency

Paternity policy changes are useless without attitudes doing the same

Although it is positive that employers are already introducing more generous parental leave policies, there needs to be an accompanying shift in employers’ cultures to dismantle the bias that...

The UK leads on pay transparency, data suggests

Nearly three quarters (71%) of job postings in the UK include pay details, compared to 50% in France and 16% in Germany, research from the recruitment firm Indeed’s Hiring Lab has confirmed.

MPs' WhatsApp group sparks workplace communication questions

A second Labour MP has apologised for his membership of a WhatsApp group chat containing sexist and racist comments.

Voodooism is a protected belief, tribunal rules

An employment tribunal has ruled that voodoo or voodooism is a protected belief. after an employee told her colleague "I’m like a voodoo doll with needles in her eyes" to describe how tired she was.

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Half of disability benefit recipients think they can’t ever work again

Half (49%) of health and disability benefit recipients feel they will never be able to work again, according to a report from the Department for Work and Pensions.

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HR Minds Summit 2025: What you missed from day two

The final day of the HR Minds Summit took place in Birmingham yesterday (6 February 2025). Read on for a round-up of insights from day two.

‘Psychic’ IT worker who told colleague he dreamed of her loses protected belief tribunal

A computer analyst has been told by a tribunal that a belief in his own psychic ability does not qualify as a protected belief.

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HR Minds Summit 2025: What you missed from day one

HR magazine's editorial team is in Birmingham for the HR Minds Summit. Here's what we learned from day one, yesterday (5 February 2025).

Are senior HR professionals paid enough?

The UK government's struggles to hire an HR director for its flagship energy company have sparked a discussion around HR's pay, and how the function is valued compared with other business verticals.

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Reframe parenthood: It's a development opportunity, not an inconvenience

It’s high time we changed the narrative around employing parents.

Asda equal pay tribunal advances to final stage

Female workers at supermarket Asda have advanced to the final stage in their legal battle for equal pay, in what law firm Leigh Day described as "the largest ever private-sector equal pay claim".

Majority of zero-hours-contract workers have been with the same employer for over a year

More than a million people are working on a zero-hours contract basis, and around 720,000 of them have been with their current employer for over a year, according to analysis by the Trades Union...