Nearly half (45%) of British employers admit they are less inclined to recruit an applicant if he or she is obese, according to law firm Crossland Employment Solicitors.

Two in five (39%) employees are planning to increase their pensions contributions in response to pensions freedoms, according to research from Portus Consulting.

The UK is under-utilising degree-educated migrants, according to a recent Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and JP Morgan report.

HR magazine is calling for entries for the individual categories in this year’s HR Excellence Awards.

UK SMEs lack confidence around pensions and pensions regulation, research from Barclays Corporate & Employer Solutions has found.

Two in five (42%) junior level employees believe a good work-life balance helps them be more productive at work and happier in general, while less than a third (29%) of employees at board level and...

Investment advisory group Tilney Bestinvest has appointed Suki Copeland as HR director.

Many employees don’t understand how their salary links to their performance, a recent CIPD Employee Attitudes to Pay and Pensions survey has found.

B&Q has announced the closure of 60 stores in the UK and Ireland over the next two years.

Insurer RSA has appointed Helen Lloyd as HR director for the UK and Western Europe.

The employment law community has reacted to Labour's recent proposal to ban zero-hour contracts for employees working regular hours for longer than 12 weeks.

Over half (56%) of people say they would consider taking shared parental leave, a figure that rises to 65% among 18- to 24-year-olds, according to Allen & Overy research.