Two thirds (66%) of employees reported that colleagues not pulling their weight was the most annoying behaviour at work, according to research by workplace mediation service Acas.

Meta is firing staff who misused its company meal voucher system to buy “non-food items”, BBC News reported on 17 October.

There has been no notable change in the pay gap between disabled and non-disabled employees since 2014, according to data from the Office for National Statistics, published on 17 October.

Female representation on FTSE 350 executive committees has fallen for the first time in eight years, according to research by gender parity consultancy The Pipeline.

Employers do not have to be experts in domestic abuse, but they should understand how to support victim-survivors, said leaders at the Employers Initiative on Domestic Abuse conference (16 October...

A recruitment manager won her unfair dismissal claim after a tribunal ruled that her manager behaved unreasonably by refusing to say ‘hello’ to her three times.

Employers who create unhealthy workplaces should be fined, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

Jenny Shiers, Unily’s chief people officer, advised that organisational velocity should be a key priority for business leaders. She spoke exclusively to HR magazine at the employee experience...

For a fifth (20%) of women, pain has held them back in their career, as they either had to take sick days or change careers due to their pain.

Internal communications (IC) is rapidly evolving from being a support function into being a strategic business partner, according to leaders at Unily’s Unite 24 conference (15 October). 

The government could increase employers' national insurance contributions in the autumn budget, on 30 October. Our commentators analyse how business leaders might react.

Employees’ pay growth was at its lowest in two years, while the employment rate increased in the latest quarter, according to the latest Labour Force Survey by the Office for National Statistics...