Casual racial discrimination from recruitment agencies when dealing with job seekers from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background is “prevalent in the UK”, hindering BAME candidates in...
Parents should be able to access financial support of up to £10,000 from the Government to pay for childcare, which they would then pay back as monthly contributions made through the tax system, a...
Plans to axe P45 forms as part of the modernisation of PAYE have been shelved, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced.
It is all change this month in the people departments at fast food firms KFC and its parent company, Yum Foods.
O2 today has launched the biggest flexible working initiative of its kind with a quarter of its UK workforce operating remotely for the day as the doors of its Slough base are shut and lights turned...
It is going to become increasingly difficult to pull the wool over the boss’s eyes and take a false sick day in the future, according to a report into absence management technology by Office...
British and EU policy-makers need to learn a lesson from US jobs data as unemployment there drops below the UK rate, according to the CIPD.
As part of Apprenticeship Week 2012, restaurant chain KFC is to extend its national apprenticeships programme to more employees in 2012, by building on the success of its City & Guilds partnership and...
As has widely been reported, the Government has increased the qualifying period of employment rights for being unfairly dismissed from one to two years. The new rules come into force on 6 April...
Training for the Olympic volunteers has got underway as 10,000 Games Makers decended upon Wembley Arena on Saturday, one of the training venues for the 32 orientation events.
Millions of private sector workers saving for their retirement are stuck with a “hugely unfair and opaque annuity system” which cuts up to £1 billion off pension incomes every year, the National...
In a fierce jobs market, ’click happy’ workers should think carefully about their online footprint before posting about their negative out-of-work experiences online, says recruiter Computer People
