As standards for the HR profession rises up the agenda a formal guild focused on promoting the sector has been created.

Almost one in three (30%) employees feel their boss does not recognise or reward their good work

Nearly half (43%) of employees say their company is guilty of greenwashing, where companies make empty claims about their environmental footprint.

Employers in the retail sector are cutting back on employee benefits by as much as 60% ahead of the national minimum wage increase in April, new research has revealed.

Jane Jarvis has joined NEC Group as its HR director.

Last year in the UK 3.6 million vocational qualification qualifications were awarded, showing an increase of 350,000 or 11% since 2007.

The fall in wages since the financial crisis of 2008 has been larger than in any other five-year period on record, a study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has revealed.