Yesterday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported the unemployment rate was 8.0% of the economically active population, down 0.2% on the quarter. There were 2.56 million unemployed people,...
Staff strikes are an “increasingly common fact of life in the public and private sector”, and are something that employers need to plan for in the current economy, employment law experts have warned.
Acas has published a new study into how employees feel about delivering news of redundancies and redeployment to colleagues.
NHS Employers says most organisations are now ready to begin medical revalidation and has urged a Government decision to start the process later this year to ensure patients have access to the highest...
Pearson, owner of Penguin and the Financial Times, is launching a higher education college - becoming the first FTSE 100 company to directly deliver degrees in the UK.
Hong Kong, Germany and the UK have more effective leaders today than any other country in the study whilst Denmark, Brazil and Norway have the lowest supply, according to SHL’s Global Leadership...
Almost nine out of 10 businesses (86%) of businesses have started to plan for implementing real time information (RTI) reporting of payroll data to HMRC when it becomes mandatory in April 2013,...
Employment levels in the UK are continuing to rise, according to the Office for National Statistics, with the employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 at 71% for the past quarter of 2012 (April to...
Following the abolition of the Default Retirement Age (DRA), and the chancellor, George Osborne’s, decision to link the state pension age (SPA) with longevity expectations, UK employers expect a...
The Government is understood to be discussing the possibility of lifting Sunday Trading regulations after the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
HM Revenue and Customs is to hire an additional 1,000 contact centre staff, in a bid to ensure 90% of calls are answered, its chief executive Lin Homer, has promised.
As young people contend with one of the worst job markets the UK has ever seen, a poll of 3,140 newly graduated and final year students by recruiter IntaPeople showed over two thirds (69%) have...
