Has the aim to equalise pay between men and women gone too far? Last week, Flintshire Council announced that its staff would face pay cuts of up to 25% in order for the council to even out...

Macmillan Cancer Support has launched a scheme to provide guidance to HR professionals on how to help employees affected by cancer.

British fathers fear flexible working is damaging to their careers, so are struggling with long hours to balance work and family, new research reveals.

The CIPD is to close its defined-benefit (DB) pension scheme and replace it with a defined-contribution alternative from next January.

A campaign to persuade Gordon Brown not to phase out childcare vouchers has become one of the most popular in the country, receiving tens of thousands of signatures from working parents.

Employees have been criticised by a professor of health for being too quick to describe them as suffering from 'work stress'.

Personal Accounts will be a "beautiful, wonderful product" not "a default option for low earners", according to the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA).

Public-sector pensions are under threat of extinction without reform, according to the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA).

Despite threats legislation could spell the end of the childcare voucher, this employee benefit has topped the list of the UK's most popular perks.

The secretary of state for work and pensions Yvette Cooper has attacked Conservative plans to increase retirement age from 65 to 66 from 2016, labelling them "unfair".

The Government that comes to power in May next year must work with HR and pension professionals to secure the retirement of staff, instead of playing "Punch and Judy pension politics", according to...

HR staff know they must communicate pension information to staff, but they are too scared to do it because of the legal implications.