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Half of employees pressured to come to work when ill, Adecco Retail report finds

Half of UK employees feel pressurised to come into work by their line manager when they are ill, according to research published by Adecco Retail.

Iain Duncan Smith: Ex-alcoholics and drug users can be “top employees”

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has unveiled schemes to help ex alcoholics and drug users back into employment.

Your chance to nominate HR's Most Influential

HR magazine would like to hear who you think has been the most influential person in the field of people strategy over the past 12 months.

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HR Excellence Awards: Entries close in two weeks

Submissions are flooding into the HR Excellence Awards, which close for entries on Thursday 21 March – only two weeks.

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Women are more underrepresented in the boardroom than previous figures state, says Manchester Business School

The amount of women on UK company boards is not as much as previously reported in official figures, due to unrepresentative samples according to academic research released by Manchester Business...

Lone worker protection deemed "essential" as corporate manslaughter cases rise

There is a growing importance of robust health and safety measures to protect staff and employers from potential corporate manslaughter cases, the British Security Industry Association's (BSIA) Lone...

Male graduates still paid more than females

There is still a large pay gap between male and female graduates, according to a study published today.

Teams, tweeting and Generation Y: why business should welcome ways of working from a new generation

Generation Y – those born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s – have been described as the iPod generation, Generation Me, ‘boomerang’ kids and the Peter Pan generation. Graduating from...

UK jobs market shows record growth in February, Reed job index reveals

The UK jobs market continues to go from strength to strength after a month of record growth, according to recruitment firm Reed's latest job index published today.

Unified standards for civil servants aim to drive up performance

In a move that is expected to drive up performance across Whitehall, from April all civil servants will have to perform to a unified set of standards.

The Government is offering “superficial” support for health and safety, claims shadow employment minister

The coalition is in “real danger of taking a wrong turn” on health and safety, according to the shadow minister of state for employment, Stephen Timms.

Generation Y: less entrepreneurial and high risk, but more likely to jump ship, according to survey

Generation Y employees see themselves as more risk averse and less entrepreneurial than their older colleagues, according to a report published today by job website Monster.com and consultancy firm...