Following plans to close 15 factories at disabled employer Remploy, with potential redundancies of 900, the Government announced yesterday it proposes to accelerate the process.

The judges scores were too close to call for the winners of best transformation strategy, so it is one of the few categories that celebrates a joint winner this year.

Diversity remains a tick-box activity rather than a strategic imperative, according to research just published by the CIPD.

HR budgets have been cut by as much as 20% in some organisations as headcounts and costs have had to be reduced.