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Breast cancer survivors not being supported in return to work

Health, Safety & Wellbeing

13 October 2017

12 October 2017

Parliamentary committee hears of “horrors of gig economy

Rather than pretending it is their way or no way and that they are in some way above the law and therefore not bound to...

12 October 2017

Jeremy Hunt’s pay cap a “con trick” says union

Without new funding ‘productivity improvements’ just looks like code for cuts to jobs and services. Comment Kevin Brandstatter, GMB National Officer. GMB, the union for...

11 October 2017

A quarter of UK workers say they would have to be hospitalised before they took a sick day

A quarter (23 percent), or 7 million UK workers, wouldn’t take a sick day unless they were hospitalised or had no other choice. Overall, nine...

11 October 2017

Harmless Work Prank or Serious Misdemeanour?

The fine line between harmless workplace pranks and serious misdemeanours is the focus of an investigation this week – following an incident among firefighters in...

9 October 2017

Slow progress down the road to HR transformation

A growing number of companies are embracing the need to transform their human resources functions in order to adapt to the current disruptive business environment,...

8 October 2017

London property market “fragile”

In the aftermath of the Brexit referendum in June 2016, the prime London property market was seen as one of the big beneficiaries of the...

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Workers in high unemployment regions are more loyal

Unemployment

8 October 2017

7 October 2017

More than half of DB pension transfers are not suitable

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has provided an update into its investigations into the transfers of defined benefit pension schemes. Comment from Nathan Long –...

7 October 2017

Soaring legal costs draining the NHS

The cost of claims in the UK is also likely to increase substantially following the drop in the discount rate from 2.5 percent to -0.75...

6 October 2017

1000 cyber incidents reported in first year to NCSC

More than 1,000 incidents were reported to the National Cyber Security Centre in its first year of operation. Comment from Joe Hancock, Cyber Security Lead...

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Most IT pros not confident with company’s ability to prevent data breaches

IT

6 October 2017

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