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How do you nurture a gay-friendly workplace?
Stonewall’s champions hope to show others the value of inclusivity “It’s not enough to have a great diversity strategy in place. It’s about making it come to life,” says Mark McLane. And he should...
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Welcome to the jobs of the future…
…not so different from the jobs we’ve got now Most attempts at jobs market futurology seem to suggest we’ll all be wired directly to the internet via receivers in our heads in just a few years, doing...
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The year ahead: potential employment tribunal changes
With a raft of reforms under consideration, read the five top areas ripe for revisionIn the next in our mini-series of employment law changes in store for employers in 2015, we consider what...
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More than a third of employees plan to change jobs in 2015
Opportunity for progression top priority for UK workers, survey revealsWith 37 per cent of UK workers planning to leave their current job in 2015, a survey from the Institute of Leadership and...
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What will the workplace of tomorrow look like?
Changes in technology and staff attitudes are driving major transformationThe nature of work and what we consider to be a workplace has undergone a “huge metamorphosis in the last 15 years”, says Chris...
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The secret to New Year's resolutions: make them tiny
Don’t set yourself up to fail, says Jan Hills – changing behaviour is about small stepsIt is that time of year again when we start afresh. New Year gives us the impetus to put aside the old and start...
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Q&A: HR director Graham Poole
“Being part-time and male shouldn’t be the issue” Take the female CEO of a £607bn asset management company, a people manager looking after a £15m budget in the tech sector and the Google executive...
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How to decide if obesity is a disability
The controversial issue of whether employees need special treatmentThe latest and most important of a string of cases regarding the controversial issue of whether or not obesity amounts to a disability...
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The irony of redundant skills among sector skills councils
As one skills body closes, Iain Mackinnon warns against taking a ‘no smoke without fire’ attitudeI’ve always disliked the cold rationality of the term “human resources”, and hope I never forget that...
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Diversity and L&D champions recognised in New Year’s Honours
Director of people and learning calls HR role ‘a privilege’ after OBERoger Smith, director of people and learning at British Red Cross was one of 1,164 people recognised in the 2015 New Year’s Honours...
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Airport staff slim down and boost health with wellbeing intervention pilot
Employees advised on diet and physical activity at work reap benefits, says reportSecurity staff at Gatwick Airport lost weight and reduced their cholesterol among other health improvements as part of...
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Scots are biggest HR pay winners
Positive news for most in the second annual People Management salary surveyHR salaries rose by an average of around 3 per cent during 2014, according to the widest-ranging survey of its kind, with...
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Tribunal fees question moves from court to politics
Unison’s legal challenge to the regime fails for a second timeSince employment tribunal fees came in in July 2013, statistics show the number of claims going to tribunal has fallen off a cliff. We are...
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Chronic stress dominates a third of UK working life, says research
Employers urged to act as ‘state of mind’ key to workforce productivityUK employees spend more than a third of their time at work feeling stressed, according to study into performance-related stress...
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Counter offers on the rise for top talent in 2015
Year ahead will be 'candidate’s market', says recruitment firmTwo thirds (65 per cent) of finance leaders have seen an increase in counter offers over the last 12 months, as employers compete for the...
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Law changes yet to get on employers’ agendas
Don’t lose sight of these five developing issuesIn the last of our mini-series looking at what 2015 may bring to the employment law arena, we look at five areas of change that might have slipped under...
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A fifth of parents consider quitting job over childcare costs
Survey finds parents under financial strain plan to reduce work hours in 2015High childcare costs are forcing almost a fifth of working parents to think about reducing the hours they work or quitting...
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Caste discrimination is covered by the Equality Act
Regulations to confirm this position are in the pipelineIn the recent case of Tirkey v Chandok, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) had to decide whether to strike out a claim for 'caste'...
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Is active working the answer to better productivity?
Campaign encourages workers to be less sedentaryAn office that promotes active working improves employee productivity, according to speakers at the Active Working Summit 2015. Active workplaces, which...
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'We have no template but we need to put in a lot of HR infrastructure'
New deputy director of people at NHS England gets to grips with 15 per cent cost cutsDaniel Hartley FCIPD joined NHS England as deputy director of people, in November 2014 after spending 12 years in...
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