The coronavirus (COVID-19), an illness that attacks the lungs and airways, has affected around 78,000 people in China, swept over Italy and continues to spread. Here, Martha McKinley, Employment Law Solicitor and Senior Associate [...]
We often hear about the “skills gap”, especially in the wake of Brexit and a declining working age population. But did you know it already costs Scottish businesses a staggering £352 million a year? Analysis by [...]
Organisations across the UK understand the value great leadership brings to achieving success. But defining what this looks like in your particular organisation, getting under the skin of what makes you unique and then bringing [...]
Stagecoach is to recruit 600 extra apprentices during 2020, the company announced recently. Britain's biggest bus and coach operator currently employs a total of around 550 driver and engineering apprentices across its operations in England, [...]
The latest survey from job board CV Library reveals that nearly half (46.8%) of Scottish professionals suffer from Sunday night fear. What’s more, a further 28.6% admit that they’ called in sick because they were too worried to go to work. The [...]
A strategic workforce plan sets out important information on a wide range of key people development areas such as attracting and recruiting the best talent, area's of productivity, attrition and other risk factor's and creates [...]
Parents who suffer the devastating loss of a child will be entitled to 2 weeks’ statutory leave, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom announced today as she laid new regulations in Parliament. The Parental Bereavement Leave and [...]
Financial success is important across cultures but the importance of maintaining a work-life balance differs between them, finds new research from BI Norwegian Business School. Career proactivity – the effort employees make to progress in [...]
With the gender pay gap disproportionately impacting the UK’s managers, directors and senior officials, the CMI and GEO are today releasing new guidance to showcase how flexible working can help to close the gender pay [...]
Working parents’ ability to “switch off” from their work is being undermined by the rise of modern communications, with almost half agreeing the boundaries between home and the workplace have blurred, according to the most [...]