Charissa King

Housing trust staffers win £95,000 in racial bias case

An employment tribunal has awarded two mixed-race women a settlement of £95,000, after finding racial bias and an "inexplicable inconsistency" in their employer’s approach to internal recruitment.

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PwC set to ramp up employee monitoring

Leaders of the business services giant PwC are to begin monitoring their UK employees’ working locations, to make sure that they return to the office three days a week, the Guardian has reported.

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Warning issued over skilled worker pay rates

Employers could be overpaying to hire skilled workers from outside the UK due to newly revealed Home Office errors uncovered by investigators working for the immigration recruitment platform Immpact.

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Met police officers report worsening racism

Racism within the Metropolitan police, Britain’s largest police force, is getting worse, according to 10 black and ethnic minority officers who spoke to the BBC. We asked HR leaders how racism can be...

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Too-low salaries being advertised online, trade body finds

Jobs that pay below the national living wage continue to be advertised, research from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) revealed last week (21 August). How can HR combat this?

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Letter from the editor: Creative HR makes for success

Startup businesses that integrate HR from day one are measurably more productive and therefore more successful, professor Anthony Klotz explained, at an event I attended in July.

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Diversity, development and drive: A Smiths success story

Meet the woman on a mission to oil the wheels of success: Vera Parker, chief people officer for the engineering solutions firm Smiths.

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Police PA unfairly dismissed amid superiors’ dispute

Employment judges have found that a Merseyside Police superintendent’s personal assistant (PA) was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against, amid being "caught in the crossfire" of a dispute...

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The HR Most Influential 2024 ranking is live

This year’s HR Most Influential lists, featuring the UK’s top HR practitioners and thought leaders, were revealed during an exclusive summer party at the Secret Garden, Mayfair, last night (10 July...

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CIPD Festival of Work 2024: Day two round-up

The final day of this year’s CIPD Festival of Work took place at London’s Excel centre yesterday (13 June). Here are our highlights.

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Skills gap to worsen by 2035, research suggests

Up to 7 million workers in England may lack the essential skills to do their jobs by the year 2035, research conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has revealed.

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Letter from the editor: What's HR's goal?

What’s the end goal for HR? What is the profession, at its core, trying to achieve?

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