HR professionals are concerned that physical fitness in workers has reduced since working from home became mandatory for non-essential workers in the UK

Employment levels will grow sharply in the first quarter of 2014 but at a slower rate than at the end of 2013, a survey suggests.

There was some slightly good news for the embattled Government from the employment figures published today by the Office for National Statistics, for the first quarter (January to March 2012).

From today 4.5 million parents will gain the right to request flexible working if they have children aged 16 or under, meaning more than ten million people in the UK fall into this category.

It is official: unemployment in the UK has broken the two million mark, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Nearly a third of UK HR directors say employee burnout is common within their organisation, according to research published today by recruitment firm Robert Half.

Abolishing legal aid for employment advice will have the “perverse effect” of increasing the number of cases that end up at an employment tribunal, national charity Citizens Advice warned today.

Extending the National Insurance Contributions (NIC) holiday to all micro-firms across the UK would create 45,000 jobs, according to research from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

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.

Fraud committed by employees rose by 43% in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to analysis by the UK's fraud prevention service, CIFAS.