Salary compression: The importance of fair remuneration
Executive search specialist Elena Bajada examines salary compression and what HR leaders should do to ensure their pay structures remain fair.| Personnel Today
Executive search specialist Elena Bajada examines salary compression and what HR leaders should do to ensure their pay structures remain fair.| Personnel Today
Mr Rakib was accused of breaching data protection rules by employer Mitie while working at a BBC site in Cardiff. The post Security manager at BBC unfairly dismissed after ‘misusing’ CCTV appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Former prison officer awarded £445k after unfair dismissal and failure to make reasonable adjustments for his epilepsy. The post Reasonable adjustment failures for epilepsy lead to £445k payout appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
There has been a rise in recent months in the number of young people in the UK not in education, employment or training. The post Rise in number of Neets reverses trend from earlier in year appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
The RMT union has announced rolling Tube strikes lasting seven days, with different London Undergound roles walking out at various times. The post RMT announces week-long Tube strikes appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Marks & Spencer has said it will create 1,000 permanent jobs once a vast automated warehouse in the Midlands, part... The post New M&S warehouse to create 1,000 permanent jobs appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Employee Benefits Live 2025 conference programme includes speakers from British Airways, The Lego Group and Siemens. The post Employee Benefits Live 2025 conference programme unveiled appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
The Royal Borough of Greenwich defends issuing staff with an inclusive language guide which suggests they use ‘spouse’ or ‘partner’ instead. The post Council defends suggested alternatives to ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
A midwife who was reported to her regulator and counter-terrorism group Prevent by her former employer is taking the Trust to tribunal for belief discrimination. The post Midwife files belief claim after Trust reported social media posts appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Woman claims age discrimination and harassment due to younger colleagues acting ‘noisy and boisterous’ but loses tribunal case. The post ‘Noisy and boisterous’ younger colleagues not age-related harassment appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Inflation increases by more than expected, as median pay deal remains stubbornly flat, according to latest data for July 2025. The post Inflation creeps further away from median pay deal appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Unite union announces 10 days of strikes next month at Airbus after 90% of members voted in favour of industrial action over pay. The post Airbus workers to strike for 10 days over pay appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has introduced a neurodiversity mentoring programme for staff. The post Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer launches neurodiversity mentoring programme appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Workers from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe have had the greatest number of visa applications refused, according to an analysis of Home Office figures. The post Immigration restrictions’ impact on visa refusals – data appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
We preview the finalists in shortlist for Employment Law Firm of the Year at the Personnel Today Awards 2025. The post Personnel Today Awards 2025 shortlist: Employment Law Firm of the Year appeared first on Personnel Today.| Personnel Today
Equality watchdog suggests government could consider reintroducing equal pay questionnaires in its response to a call for evidence.| Personnel Today
Starling Bank staff resign following demands from the company’s chief executive that they spend more time in the workplace.| Personnel Today
Amazon's return-to-the-office policy signals the end of trends that arrived with the pandemic. But are employees ready for it?| Personnel Today
Strict return to office mandates are pushing workers to look for new jobs, according to research from International Workplace Group.| Personnel Today
Outdoor training: With an increasing number of return-to-office mandates, should businesses be taking employees outside, rather than keeping them in?| Personnel Today
More than half of people with a number of chronic long-term health conditions are also in chronic pain.| Personnel Today
People who live in the most deprived areas of England are more likely to suffer chronic conditions that prevent them from working.| Personnel Today
Hundreds of Liverpool university staff are to stage additional strikes in their dispute over hybrid-working arrangements.| Personnel Today
A million people have changed jobs because of a lack of flexibility, as half of UK employees feel under pressure to return to office, according to the CIPD.| Personnel Today
Broadband traffic on Friday afternoons during summer 8% lower between 3:00pm and 5:00pm compared to winter, as workers finish early.| Personnel Today
BCC finds 9% of SMEs say employees have left because of requirement to return to the office or onsite working.| Personnel Today
KPMG has been using a ‘set distribution’ or ranking approach to assessing employees’ performance. Like annual appraisals, this strategy has fallen out of favour in recent years, but why?| Personnel Today
The combined firm will rationalise its labour force and seek to ensure duplicated roles are not maintained.| Personnel Today
Businesses seeking to cut costs through redundancies post-budget should not rely on this as the sole reason for dismissal.| Personnel Today
US bank Wells Fargo is facing a lawsuit claiming it conducted ‘fake interviews’ for non-white and female applicants in a diversity drive.| Personnel Today
A former Microsoft manager in DEI has accused the company of downgrading efforts to improve diversity, after his team was laid off.| Personnel Today
Diversity of teaching staff: more than half of primary schools in Britain have no ethnic minority teaching staff, a study has found.| Personnel Today
The House of Lords has voted for an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill that would remove day-one unfair dismissal rights.| Personnel Today
The government has published an ‘implementation roadmap’ for the Employment Rights Bill, confirming significant changes will come as soon as next April.| Personnel Today
More than 100 companies in the facilities management sector warn of ‘unintended consequences’ of workers' rights bill.| Personnel Today
Quarterly employment tribunal statistics show the number of open cases has risen from 39,000 to 49,800 in 12 months.| Personnel Today
The TUC has today (Monday) has told Conservative and Lib Dem peers to ‘stop trying to block’ stronger rights for millions of workers.| Personnel Today
Register now for our webinar examining the pros and cons of global hiring from the UK, and how to mitigate the risks.| Personnel Today
A growing number of organisations are publishing their salary ranges in order to promote pay transparency in a drive towards equality.| Personnel Today
Despite calls for better salary transparency in recruitment advertising, pay details are increasingly omitted from ads.| Personnel Today
Employers taking part in a government pilot will list salary details on job adverts and stop asking candidates about salary history, in a bid to tackle pay inequality.| Personnel Today
Around eight in 10 employers pay men more than women on average, according to analysis of gender pay gap data for 2022.| Personnel Today
Closing the gender pay gap requires employers to take tangible action, and use their data to make a positive difference.| Personnel Today
The GMB union has called for the council to enter “meaningful” talks around how it intends to solve its equal pay challenges.| Personnel Today
Equal pay issues are eviscerating budgets at local authorities such as Birmingham, but what is the impact of this on people and finances?| Personnel Today
"Single source" equal pay protections scrapped by Retained EU Law Act to be reinstated by secondary legislation.| Personnel Today
Nearly half of senior HR leaders struggle to access the relevant data for pay equity analysis, a report finds.| Personnel Today
The Supreme Court has ruled that 170 women who used to work at Birmingham City Council can proceed with equal pay claims against their former employer in| Personnel Today
Birmingham City Council will have to settle up to £760 million in equal pay claims, it has revealed.| Personnel Today
Task masking is less about rebellion and more about a breakdown of trust, so how can managers address it?| Personnel Today
The factors that are driving return-to-office mandates are less to do with productivity and more to do with the desire for more control| Personnel Today
Research shows that team productivity takes a summer slump, and not just because employees are on holiday.| Personnel Today
Birmingham City Council agrees to settle 6,000 equal pay claims brought by both past and present staff four years after they were launched.| Personnel Today
About 1,000 workers who are Unite members are involved in strike action in a dispute over previous pay rise commitments.| Personnel Today
Advisers who were brought in-house at the BMA are in dispute over pay and conditions and have voted for strike action unless a deal is made.| Personnel Today
The next two one-day Sunday strikes on Avanti trains have been called off because of talks taking place with RMT officials.| Personnel Today
New study purports to show the workplace stereotypes that could be inflicted by unregulated use of AI software.| Personnel Today
HR 'unprepared' for AI revolution, according to a survey by Brightmine, which found that eight in 10 companies have offered no training.| Personnel Today
ChatGPT in recruitment: as a new iteration of OpenAI's generative AI technology gains in popularity, what are the risks and rewards?| Personnel Today
Lower socio-economic background candidates from ethnic minorities are 45% less likely to be offered an entry-level professional role.| Personnel Today
Graduates will face a real bun fight for jobs this summer, research has warned, with vacancies down 12% and even tougher than during the pandemic.| Personnel Today
Peers have proposed an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill to ensure work experience placements don't flout minimum wage laws.| Personnel Today
Most employers support a crackdown on unpaid or underpaid internships as new research suggests a growing class divide in accessing schemes.| Personnel Today
Government launches call for evidence on unpaid and underpaid internships and work trials as it seeks to tighten rules.| Personnel Today
New legislation around zero-hours working risks enveloping agency workers and pushing companies into promoting ‘false self-employment’.| Personnel Today
Agency workers included in ban on ‘exploitative’ zero-hours contracts, as government tables amendments to the Employment Rights Bill.| Personnel Today
Rights for workers on zero-hours contracts could be watered down after a proposed amendment to the Employment Rights Bill in the Lords.| Personnel Today
Liz Stevens, professional support lawyer at law firm Birketts, highlights the key takeaways from the long-awaited Employment Rights Bill| Personnel Today
Positive movements in national living wage, parental rights, statutory sick pay are great for workers, but come at a cost to employers.| Personnel Today
From bus fares to the term ‘working people’ to national insurance rates, speculation around tomorrow’s Budget has reached fever pitch.| Personnel Today
Autumn budget 2024: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that there will be a rise in employers’ national insurance contributions to 15%.| Personnel Today
BT faces additional costs of around £100 million following last week’s Budget announcement by the chancellor.| Personnel Today
Savills presents an exclusive survey conducted with Personnel Today about HR's involvement in real estate and office move decisions.| Personnel Today
As more employers demand a return to the office, how do we really define productivity, and does being in the office make a difference?| Personnel Today
Savills have conducted a poll with Personnel Today to find out how HR leaders make decisions about office moves. Here are the results …| Personnel Today
There is a positive link between workplace attendance and wellbeing, with three or four times a week being the ideal number of in-office days.| Personnel Today
A Stanford University study finds that hybrid working is just as productive as full-time office attendance.| Personnel Today
Civil Service recommits to three-day office attendance following reports that ministers were doing little to enforce hybrid working rules.| Personnel Today
The UK is an international outlier when it comes to economic inactivity, a new government-commissioned report has found.| Personnel Today
A group of union leaders has written to the government urging it to go further with its plans to reform statutory sick pay (SSP).| Personnel Today
More than a million low-paid workers will be entitled to higher sick pay rates in changes expected to be introduced next year.| Personnel Today
Reforms to sick pay could deliver benefits of more than £2bn to the UK economy, analysis from the TUC suggests.| Personnel Today
Second trial of a four-day week is scheduled to launch this autumn as campaigners urge employers to sign up.| Personnel Today
Former transport secretary Louise Haigh joins activists calling on a ban of NDAs in the Employment Rights Bill.| Personnel Today
Former cabinet minister Louise Haigh has called for an end to a ‘two-tier’ system in how businesses use non-disclosure agreements.| Personnel Today
The government has rejected a recommendation from a group of MPs to ban the use of non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases.| Personnel Today
The government has confirmed employers will be banned through the Employment Rights Bill from ‘gagging’ workers who have suffered harassment and discrimination.| Personnel Today
NDA ban: there could be unintended consequences that are mostly to the detriment of whistleblowers and those who have been harassed.| Personnel Today
FAQs include unfair dismissal changes and the new code of practice for dismissing and re-engaging employees.| Personnel Today
A woman who was sacked after being off sick for more than four years has lost her unfair dismissal case against Maximus UK Services.| Personnel Today
More than one in five people with neurodivergent conditions are not in employment, research commissioned by Heston Blumenthal OBE reveals.| Personnel Today
Deutsche Bank is adding a 'wellness suite' into its new London office to support neurodivergent and menopausal employees.| Personnel Today
ON-DEMAND | Watch our online masterclass focusing on recognising and managing neurodivergent employees in the workplace.| Personnel Today
If employers genuinely want to support employees with ADHD, they need fully to understand its nuances, argues Steve Ollington.| Personnel Today
Kavitha Sivasubramaniam considers whether employers are doing enough to level the playing field for neurodivergent workers| Personnel Today
Geldards law firm partners with NeuroUniverse to help improve treatment of neurodivergent workers and reduce disability discrimination.| Personnel Today
The government has announced a £1.2 billion annual skills investment as the centrepiece of its new industrial strategy.| Personnel Today
Data skills gaps are stopping employees and businesses from making the most of the AI revolution, according to research by Multiverse.| Personnel Today
Outsourcing company Capita will use agentic AI to automate more than 200 recruitment tasks and speed up hiring.| Personnel Today
Consulting group McKinsey has advised firms to maintain investment in entry-level roles for young people amid AI-related job cuts.| Personnel Today
