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As Valentine’s Day approaches, one employment lawyer advises that employers should let love blossom – so long as it doesn’t distract them or others from their work, In the past, many employers have frowned on [...]

Shopworkers’ trade union leader John Hannett has expressed concern about a TUC survey published today which finds one in eight people experience violence at work. The poll, carried out by YouGov for the TUC and [...]

Bureau Veritas UK, a leader in testing, inspection and certification (TIC) services, has been recognised by the Ministry of Defence in its Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS), which rewards UK employers for their support and [...]

Bullying and harassment can make working life a misery and few would disagree that bullies are bad for business as well as for employee relations. So why is this kind of behaviour so widespread in [...]

Each year, almost 120,000 people 
of working age, are diagnosed
with cancer in the UK, and with survival rates improving and people retiring later, this figure is set to rise. This is why Macmillan has developed [...]

In the trendence School Leaver Study, a recent survey of around 9,000 UK school students in years 7−13, it was found that the principal reason for not entering further education was wanting to earn money [...]

Cost management, talent management and boosting productivity remain top current priorities for HR and non-HR business leaders in 2015, unchanged from 2013. But for the first time, innovation is now a leading business priority for [...]