The CIPD has warned that news headlines associating voluntary unpaid work experience with “slave labour”, is in danger of denying young people a route into permanent employment, by discouraging...
Uncertainty around the business environment has increased by 50% over the last two years, resulting in higher levels of stress, workforce discontent, absence and presenteeism (working whilst ill)...
The proportion of employees in their late 50s and early 60s working unpaid overtime has increased sharply in the last decade - despite a fall in unpaid hours for the rest of the workforce - according...
There was an 11.8% decrease in the use of temporary labour in the last quarter of 2011 in the public sector, when compared to the same time in 2010 and this has had a “disproportionate effect” on...
Workers are being trapped in career silos because they don’t believe they can cross sector or industry boundaries, according to data published this morning from the Hays Career Outlook Survey.
The CIPD has said reports that women are faring less well in the UK labour market are the results of "widespread misinterpretation".
Two national days of co-ordinated public sector strike action in the UK last year have contributed to the highest level of working days lost to industrial action since 1990, according to full-year...
A disturbing trend is forming around line managers’ views of human resources – and it is one that looks set to continue.
The employment rate has risen 0.1% on the quarter and there are 29.13 million people in employment aged 16 and over, up 60,000 on the previous quarter, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The first quarter of 2012 will be the most difficult quarter for the jobs market since the recession, as the number of private sector firms surveyed planning to make redundancies increases, according...
UK workers will face a continuing squeeze on real pay over the next 12 months, as organisations cut costs amid continuing economic uncertainty, according to a report from global management consultancy...
My friends have recently bought themselves a new puppy; it took them only one visit to the rescue centre to pick it but nearly a year to decide to do it.
