Multiple HR practitioners have argued that the HR function has valid leadership and business credentials, after prime minister Kier Starmer was allegedly accused of being an “HR manager", not a...
The UK government's struggles to hire an HR director for its flagship energy company have sparked a discussion around HR's pay, and how the function is valued compared with other business verticals.
Female workers at supermarket Asda have advanced to the final stage in their legal battle for equal pay, in what law firm Leigh Day described as "the largest ever private-sector equal pay claim".
More than a million people are working on a zero-hours contract basis, and around 720,000 of them have been with their current employer for over a year, according to analysis by the Trades Union...
Workplace advisory firm Acas has reported that 39% of line managers find it difficult to have conversations about neurodiversity at work.
Fewer CEOs in FTSE 100 companies left their organisations in 2024 than in 2023, according to data from leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates. How can HR support improved retention...
Two thirds (68%) of HR professionals use AI at work, making them the second most likely to do so among 12 other industries and professions, according to research published yesterday (30 January).
Women are less likely to get a job than they were in 2022, according to research conducted by the charity Smart Works.
The exposure of an “unapologetically racist” HMRC employee has raised questions about how HR and recruiters monitor and hire people with extreme political beliefs.
A new hiring and investment outlook survey has found that, despite slight improvements in how employers view the UK’s economic performance, hiring intentions are still depressed.
The UK’s employment gap between people with and without health limitations is among the widest in the EU15, a study from the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has found.
A tribunal judicial ruling has allowed a claimant to refer to a transgender colleague with pronouns they did not choose, raising questions over how to manage disputes regarding gender identity in the...
