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National living wage will impose greater payroll costs than expected, warn...
Reward and Employee Benefits Association event highlights ‘trickle-up’ effectThe forthcoming introduction of a national living wage (NLW) will lead to larger-than-expected increases in payroll costs...
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Five things we’re still getting wrong with engagement
How to keep employees motivated in the rapidly evolving world of workGlobalisation, economic change, increasing digitalisation and rapidly evolving workforce demographics, continue to make us think...
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New financial services whistleblowing rules could apply in other sectors
How formalising arrangements can guard against malpractice and claimsIt is a common theme when major malpractice occurs, such as the LIBOR banking scandal and media phone-hacking, that people inside...
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Opinion: What the IKEA effect can teach managers about staff feedback
Susanne Jacobs says something as simple as recognising effort can have a huge impact on engagementI was doing some consultancy work with a great team last week but they were feeling pretty miserable....
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Flexible working boosts profits and productivity, say majority of employers
High-speed mobile data services enables ‘profound and rapid shift’ in work practices In one of the largest global workplace surveys of its kind, 83 per cent of respondents said adopting flexible...
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Starbucks dyslexia case has implications for all employers
HR should recognise signs employee is struggling, says expertA woman with dyslexia has won a disability discrimination case against her employer, Starbucks, after being wrongly accused of falsifying...
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Employers feel strain as more staff save into work pensions, finds CIPD
Latest Employee Outlook survey reveals financial impact of auto-enrolmentTwo-thirds of UK employees are now saving into a workplace pension following the introduction of auto-enrolment pensions,...
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Study links higher NHS trust mortality rate to nurse staffing levels
Lowest death rates founds where nurses have six or fewer patients at one timeOn the same day junior doctors staged their second walk-out over proposed contract changes, research by the University of...
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Failing to provide childcare vouchers during unpaid maternity leave could be...
Employers should check their own schemes for potential problemsThe Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) heard an appeal recently in the case of Peninsula Business Services v Donaldson which is expected to...
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Universities leaders collect inflation busting pay rises, FOI request reveals
Vice chancellors well rewarded despite sector-wide budget cutsPay for university vice chancellors (VC) continued to rise far above the rate of inflation during 2015-16 despite budgets cuts of £150...
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Development plans that HR managers and employees will love
While many organisations say they have learning and development culture, they don’t always practice what they preach. They don’t always give their line managers the tools they need to provide employees...
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Employer should have intervened in trade union dispute, says Court of Appeal
Favouring a recognised union led to unlawful treatment of an employeeA recent case, North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Bone, considered the extent of an employer’s responsibilities towards...
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Junior doctors' strikes will continue as minister plans to impose new contracts
Row heats up over changes labeled ‘bad for the future of patient care’ Health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s pledge to impose new junior doctor contracts has been dubbed the “nuclear” option by the British...
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Government unveils gender pay gap reporting rules for large employers
League tables set to highlight poor performers in a bid to drive changeFrom 2018, companies with more than 250 employees will be required to make their gender pay gap publically available online, the...
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Lessons to be learned from the Starbucks dyslexia case
Tribunal finds ‘no knowledge of equality issues’Starbucks became the subject of media attention recently when one of its employees, Meseret Kumulchew, won her case for disability discrimination. Her...
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Increasing employment costs puts brake on pay rises, reveals CIPD
Pay expectations ‘at lowest levels for more than two years’Wage inflation is predicted to fall again in the year ahead, pushing pay expectations to their lowest level for more than two years, according...
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Employee fails to prove lower bonus was ‘irrational and perverse’
Contractual rules permitted employer to treat colleagues differentlyHow much discretion does an employer really have when deciding the level of a bonus? This issue was revisited recently in the case of...
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Opinion: Are you an energy thief at work?
How you think and behave could be draining the life force from your colleagues, warns Jan HillsWhen it’s cold and dark and it seems a long time until summer your energy levels can drop. In work this...
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Union claims civil service faces further job cuts to make room for 30,000...
Ministers are using redundancy terms to hire trainees ‘on the cheap’, says PCS unionThe government plans to make more civil servants redundant to make space for up to 30,000 apprentices by 2020,...
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New e-book: Discover five ways to transform the annual employee performance...
It is true there’s been a lot of discussion on how dysfunctional the performance appraisal has become ‒ including how it can lead to lower employee engagement and productivity. In fact, in many...
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