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WEB3 days ago — We spend a third of our lives at work, yet many HR professionals still overlook the subtle poisons seeping into our professional environments. Fewer than one in 10 employees (9%) would choose to have a Christmas party, research by reward provider Love2Shop showed (10 September). Around two thirds (63%) of …
HR Magazine - Social class largest barrier to career progression
WEBDec 20, 2022 — Social class largest barrier to career progression. Socio-economic background is having the strongest negative effect on employee promotions, according to research from KPMG. KPMG's Social Mobility Progression Report for 2022 found workers within the company from lower socio-economic backgrounds took on average 19% longer to progress to the ...
Changes to employment law in April 2020: what employers should …
WEBApr 9, 2020 — Changes to section 1 statements. For employees starting work on or after 6 April 2020, the information an employer must provide under section 1 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (“ERA”), which is generally given in the form of an employment contract, must now include: - How many working days of the week the employee is …
HR Magazine - The evolution of HR: 1984 to 2014 and beyond
WEBNov 25, 2014 — The evolution of HR: 1984 to 2014 and beyond. Back in 1984, the working landscape was very different to the one we find ourselves in today. Personally I hadn’t yet reached the world of work and was busy studying at university, where my research involved borrowing books from the campus library and using the microfiche machine.
Flexible Working Taskforce releases hybrid work guidelines
WEBDec 3, 2021 — The Flexible Working Taskforce has today (3 December) published new guidelines to help employers use fair and sustainable hybrid working practices. The Taskforce, a partnership across business, unions, government departments and other groups, said that the guidance is designed to help employers reap the potential rewards of good hybrid working ...
Over half of UK employers now provide enhanced maternity and …
WEBMay 24, 2021 — Speaking to HR magazine, Axtens said: "More than 85% of Working Families employer members enhance maternity pay and over 90% enhance paternity pay. Additionally, 79% enhance SPL to match their maternity provision. "Employers tell us they find the benefits boost engagement, employee wellbeing, recruitment and retention outweigh the additional ...
How has HR evolved in the last 25 years? - HR Magazine
WEBMay 16, 2016 — HR magazine is 25 years old. To celebrate we look back at the profession's growth into what we know today. BBC HR director Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth recalls what day-to-day life was like in the average HR, or rather ‘personnel’, department a quarter of a century ago: “We worked with paper employee files and, if lucky, basic spreadsheets of ...
Workplace favouritism holding back career development
WEBAug 19, 2021 — Workplace favouritism holding back career development. Only 53% of UK employees think everyone in their company is given an opportunity to grow, according to a new report by recognition and reward scheme business OC Tanner. Almost half of respondents said they felt favouritism influenced their …
HR Magazine - Ethics and HR
WEBApr 16, 2019 — The risk is that an HR practitioner will find themselves bending at best (violating at worst) their personal ethics if they’re working in an unethical environment. “If you’re surrounded by people who are making decisions that maybe aren’t the most ethical it can be easy to be led astray,” Dicker warns.
News - HR Magazine
WEB6 days ago — Working parents | Unpredictable hours disproportionately impact working mothers, study finds. Working mothers are disproportionately impacted by unpredictable hours, a study exclusive to HR magazine has found. The research findings were published as news broke about the government's plan to...