The Financial Services Bill, outlined in the Queen's Speech, is designed to strengthen financial regulation and give the Financial Services Authority (FSA) the power to stop excessive bonus payments....
Sainsbury's executive reward manager, Leigh Harrison, was forced to admit her pay and rewards structure for top executives bears no correlation to its stated CSR credentials.
The cost to business of employees caring for their elderly relatives could be as much as 12 times what it will cost to bail out the financial institutions over the next 20 to 40 years.
Incentives and bonuses play an 'essential role in levering business performance' - but they have to be aligned to HR strategy, according to HR leaders.
The Government has "killed the golden goose" of quality retirement provision, through 20 years of interference, according to HR directors.
More than 60% of working parents using childcare vouchers may have to consider giving up their jobs if tax relief on the scheme is phased out.
Proposals to introduce fit notes in place of the current sick notes system have been the subject of intense debate among HR professionals, the medical world and businesses throughout the UK. Plans...
Today it has emerged nine ministers have written to the prime minister urging him to rethink his controversial plans to scrap tax-exemptions for childcare vouchers.
Despite predictions that the number of staff working beyond retirement age will double, research by Croner has found only a third of workers say they envisage working past the age of 65.
The likelihood companies will suffer from absences through ill-health has nearly doubled in the past three months, due to infections from swine flu and other colds and viruses, research has found.
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly three quarters (73%) of companies do not comply with VDU regulations because they only fund either eye tests or the cost of any glasses required, but not both, as they should.
Pay freezes among FTSE 250 companies are greater than those of their FTSE 100 counterparts, according to a report by executive remuneration consultancy Hewitt New Bridge Street.
