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Data analytics: HR should learn from sports

Finding the future role, moving to predictive analytics, and creating transparency are key lessons

Not discriminatory to refuse enhanced SPL pay says EAT

?It is not sex discrimination to refuse a new father enhanced paternity pay, the employment appeal tribunal (EAT) has ruled

Stress and lack of development blight UK job quality

The CIPD has launched what it says is the first comprehensive measure of job quality in the UK

Employers lack knowledge of diabetes

16% of people with diabetes feel they’ve been discriminated against at work because of their condition, according to Diabetes UK

Women’s Business Council launches gender toolkit for CEOs

Diversity & inclusion

A toolkit aimed at male CEOs has been launched to share ideas on closing the gender pay gap

Organisations with strong and transparent cultures perform better

Having clearly-defined and -communicated values helps companies attract and develop key talent

Women more anxious asking for pay rises

Techniques to overcome anxiety can help but organisations must also look to structural issues holding women back

£1.28 billion sitting unused in apprenticeship accounts

A year on since it was introduced, a number of barriers are deterring employers from utilising the apprenticeship levy

Self-employed mothers earn less

?Just 20% of self-employed mothers are earning as much as they did before they had children

More than a thousand businesses miss gender pay gap deadline

High proportion publish in final hours, revealing 78% of businesses have a gap in favour of men

HR managers most likely to take time off because of stress

Employees feel under-valued and pressurised, with many using alcohol and drugs to ‘unwind’ at the end of the day

Graduate job-hopping a myth, says research

Graduate recruits are staying in post longer, but employers must work to close skills gaps