HR faces big challenges in the oil and gas industry due to an ageing working force and huge skill shortages, according to Derek Massie, former SVP HR at deepwater drilling company, Seadrill.

"Gagging clauses", which stop departing NHS staff from speaking out about patient safety or care, have been banned by the Government with immediate effect.

Half of UK employees feel pressurised to come into work by their line manager when they are ill, according to research published by Adecco Retail.

Employers’ diversity strategies should focus on creating a diverse talent pool for the future, not just short-term gain, Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, head of diversity and inclusion EMEA at Google has said.

Employers will be empowered to design and develop their own apprenticeship standards and qualifications, so they can address skills shortages that are threatening growth, deputy prime minister Nick...

Lord Sugar has told an employment tribunal that Apprentice winner Stella English is a “headline grabber” and is effectively trying to blackmail him.

The jobs outlook for the austerity-hit public sector is at a five-year high after “over-firing” following the financial crisis in 2008, according to a report from recruitment firm Manpower.

Work/life balance organisation Working Families has today called for a national investigation into maternity discrimination in the workplace.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has unveiled schemes to help ex alcoholics and drug users back into employment.

Job cuts in IT departments are finally coming to an end, with only one in 10 IT directors expecting to make job cuts in 2013, half the proportion planning job cuts a year ago, according to research...

Employers are investing more money in talent, but much of it is proving ineffective, according to the latest Talent Barometer survey from Mercer.

Last month Allied Bakeries opened a multi-million-pound, state-of-the-art bread production line in its bakery in Stockport, Greater Manchester.