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UK unemployment down by 37,000, say latest ONS figures

According the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), unemployment fell by 37,000 in the three months to the end of November, with the total figure of those out of work standing...

World jobless figure to hit record high in 2013, says ILO

The number of jobless people around the world in 2012 was 197 million, and that figure is projected to rise to 200 million in 2013, according to a report published today by the International Labour...

Online grocery firm Ocado has appointed Bryony Flint as head of HR

Bryony Flint will join the firm as head of HR at its distribution centre in Warwickshire.

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UK faces 3.1 million shortfall in workforce by 2050, reveals Randstad

The UK faces a workforce shortfall of 3.1 million by 2050 due to skills shortages, an ageing workforce and restrictive migration policy, according to recruitment firm, Randstad.

Management pay will struggle to keep pace with inflation in 2013, reveals report

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Managers' and professionals' incomes will struggle to keep pace with inflation, with average pay increases of 2.2% forecast for 2013, reveals a report from HR research organisation Incomes Data...

5,000 jobs expected to go in MoD Army job cuts

About 5,000 job cuts will be announced by the Government today, in a third wave of military redundancies.

Employees care passionately about business success but lack the support to achieve it, Mindjet survey reveals

Half of British workers care passionately about helping their employer to be successful and they take their role in their employer's success seriously but a lack of resources, senior direction and...

'If you want to effect strategic change, you must touch people in their everyday lives', says leading HR academic

Veronica Hope-Hailey, professor of strategy and HRM, and head of Strategic and International Management group, University of Bath, says that to have effective communication with your employees and...

Learning, leadership development and talent management are not luxuries, they are essential

The public sector in the UK is undergoing a radical change. According to the CIPD, 850,000 jobs will disappear between 2010 and 2017 – around 15% of the workforce.

Gen Y workers represent a 'ticking time-bomb of potential cost and disruption' to employers

Generation Y workers represent the management class of the future, yet they also exhibit a new-found job mobility which, from an employer’s point of view, is a ticking time-bomb of potential cost and...

Minister's proposal for flexible working to avoid rush hour travel is "nonsensical" says FPB

A proposal by Jo Swinson, minister for employment relations and consumer affairs, suggesting that workers should be allowed to ask for flexible working to avoid rush hour congestion has been branded...

Businesses increasingly offering more than “cash and philanthropy” when it comes to CSR, forum hears

Multinational corporations are starting to play a core role in disaster response, but the process and HR planning that goes into these CSR activities cannot be overstated, delegates at the JustGiving...