The British Safety Council has launched its new website www.britsafe.org aimed at strengthening the global health and safety charity’s online interaction with its members and wider health, safety and...
The rise in the number of women claiming sickness benefits is much faster than the rise for men, according to analysis by Legal & General, using Department of Work and Pensions statistics.
A clear gap between the level of pay settlements in the public and private sectors is continuing, according to the latest data from the Incomes Data Service.
Total bonus payouts in the City for 2011/12 are expected to fall year on year by 38.0% to ‘only’ £4.2 billion, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).
Provisional figures published today indicate apprenticeship starts for academic year 2010/11 have risen by more than 50% compared with final figures from 2009-10.
The Agency Worker Regulations (AWR) is a complex piece of legislation. The basic premise of agency staff being entitled to equal treatment with direct recruits - for example in terms of pay, working...
News reports yesterday about a leaked Government document suggesting unproductive workers should lose their right to claim unfair dismissal, have raised eyebrows in the HR sector, as commentators fear...
Virginia ‘Ginni’ Rometty (pictured with chairman Samuel Palmisano) has been appointed the first female president and chief executive officer of IBM.
In the third quarter of 2011, retail employment was down by 0.8% compared with the same quarter a year earlier, the equivalent of 5,780 fewer full-time jobs according to the British Retail Consortium...
Ford UK has put 40 aspiring managers through an innovative development programme, in a bid to develop the leaders of the future.
On the anniversary of the Comprehensive Spending Review, the future for many public sector employees is still uncertain, according to recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark.
The deputy prime minister Nick Clegg yesterday said firms should be free to have "frank discussions" with underperforming staff, including older workers, in a bid to treat staff "like human beings and...
