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City bonuses to collapse to below 1998 levels, finds CEBR

City bonuses look set to fall in 2012/13 to £2.3 billion from £4.4 billion this year and £11.6 billion peak in 2007/08.

Employers lose 10 working days on average per year on interviews

Employers spend an average of 10 working days a year interviewing, 16% of the working week travelling to meet candidates and £3,286 a year reimbursing candidates’ travel expenses, according to a...

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TUC says employees should sit on pay committees to bring 'a touch of the real world'

Shareholders may have been giving the thumbs down to boardroom pay and bonuses in greater numbers recently, but the Government needs to do more than make investors' voting decisions binding if...

NHS chiefs’ pay growth grinds to a halt at £157,500, responding to Government calls for pay restraint

Pay growth for senior NHS board directors has ground to a halt with pay for chief executives frozen over the last year, reveals the latest NHS Boardroom Pay report from Incomes Data Services (IDS).

Northern Ireland firm fined £187,500 under Corporate Manslaughter legislation

The first employer in Northern Ireland to be prosecuted under Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide legislation has been fined a record £187,500.

Money and lack of skills are all that's stopping an exodus of passive jobseekers, finds survey of 3,000

Three out of five employees in the UK (60%) want to change their job, but are being held back by a lack of finances(46%) and not having the right skills (42%), according to new a poll of 3,000 people...

HR magazine sweeps the board at awards for excellence in HR journalism

HR magazine scooped three awards, including HR publication of the year, last night at the Towers Watson Awards for Excellence in HR Journalism at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

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Pay awards hover around 3% for first quarter of 2012, finds IDS

The key figure for pay settlements in the private sector is 3% for the first quarter of 2012, according to the latest data from the Incomes Data Service.

Cycle to work schemes experience 9% increase since 2011

The Government supported Cycle to Work Scheme has seen a 9% increase in take up during the first quarter of this year compared to 2011.

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FTSE 50 has only 1% HR representation at board level

Research by HR recruiter Ortus, published this morning, shows HR professionals are "seriously underrepresented" at board level in British companies.

‘Clock watchers’ not ‘workaholics’ most likely to burn out at work, finds Kingston University Study

People who don’t get deeply involved with their work are more likely to suffer ‘burn out’ or emotional exhaustion and have lower levels of well-being, according to a new study but Kingston University...

Local authorities make 'real and concerted' effort to reduce temporary labour spend, finds Comensura

There was a 15.2% decrease in the use of temporary labour across the public sector in the first quarter of 2012, when compared to the same time in 2011, according to the Comensura Government Index.