Google, Meta, HSBC and Amazon have all made headlines over the summer for mandating workers return to the office for at least three days a week, but what evidence is there to support three days as the...
Nationwide Building Society has been ordered to pay more than £350,000 in compensation to a former employee who was made redundant after refusing its return-to-office (RTO) mandate.
A new National Living Wage of £11 per hour is to be launched in April 2024, giving HR and payroll professionals a number of tasks to complete before the new financial year.
A Ministry of Defence (MOD) Police officer who was dismissed after failing a fitness test has won an employment tribunal.
It is perhaps easy with hindsight after a tragedy to see where individuals and organisations failed to apply due diligence, openness and a willingness to listen and instead took a ‘protectionist’...
Half (50%) of UK working parents are looking for new roles because of their employers' return-to-office mandates, according to flexible childcare provider Pebble.
Despite inflation easing, 60% of low-paid workers have used food banks since September 2022, according to the Living Wage Foundation.
Given all the recent talk and headlines about the impact of AI on our lives it was a bit anti-climactic that a recent survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) found that nine out...
A Jersey tribunal awarded hotel employee Annastashia Wango £2,750 in a sexual harassment case, but found her Bantu heritage was not pertinent to the case.
Over half (56%) of third-sector employees who have left the voluntary sector have done so in search of higher-paid jobs, research from insurance company Endsleigh has found.
As HR professionals, you’re probably familiar with the common issue of recruiting people on salaries that are higher than your internal pay ranges. It’s a huge cause of much of the inequity we see in...
UK employees missed work for an average of 7.8 days over the past year, the highest level in over a decade, according to new research.
