Employment legislation including pension requirements, dismissal rules and sickness absence rules is deterring deter sole traders from taking on their first employees.
The UK’s financial sector is systematically failing SMEs, which could provide the greatest source of innovation, jobs and growth, according to a submission to the Independent Banking Commission (ICB)...
After help from recruiters, person-to-person networking continues to be jobseekers’ most successful tool, according to a study by Right Management.
The London HR market is growing in confidence, with the permanent recruitment market showing greater signs of activity, according to the latest Talent Spotlight from Badenoch and Clark, published...
UK employers are estimated to have paid out £4.4 billion in redundancy payments over the last year, according to law firm Wedlake Bell.
For full details of all the winners, highly commended entries, judges and sponsors, download the HR Excellence Awards 2011 Book of the Night here.
The UK’s largest companies performed well in May 2011, experiencing the biggest fall in insolvencies compared to any other business size, according to Experian, the global information services...
The number of job vacancies posted in June was up 3% from the previous month according to the Reed Job Index. This marks a return back up to April’s level of new job vacancies.
Employees are failing to act on fears about their financial security despite a growing realisation that they need to plan for the long-term in the wake of the global financial crisis, a multi-country...
Average house prices are drastically out of step with salaries at almost seven times the annual national wage, mortgage payments are as high as four fifths of gross salary and employees could be left...
Only the knowledge economy can provide the jobs and balanced growth needed to secure the UK’s future prosperity, according to a plan for growth published today by The Work Foundation.
Research reveals the UK is divided over tomorrow's proposed strike of 750,000 UK employees.
