News

Read More

How Tesco went greener and cut its energy bill

Environment

6 March 2017

Read More

5 March 2017

Businesses must get ready for payroll benefits changes

The deadline is fast approaching for employers to get ready for HMRC’s Payrolling Benefits in Kind (PBiK) scheme. From Richard Britten, Partner and Head of...

Read More

4 March 2017

Lords’ energy report puts too much faith in the market

Competition alone won’t fix the UK’s energy market, says the union that represents 24,000 managers and specialists working in generation, distribution and transmission. Prospect was...

Read More

3 March 2017

Job satisfaction – managers are dropping the ball

According to research released today, job satisfaction and employee engagement are not doing well at UK large businesses – and both line managers and executive...

Read More

3 March 2017

RBS posts £7 billion loss

RBS has reported a £7 billion loss in 2016, its ninth consecutive year of losses. Since the financial crisis the bank has now racked up...

Read More

2 March 2017

Lack of employee foreign travel risk awareness training revealed

International SOS reveal the results of the 2017 Business Impact of Travel Risk survey. Comment from Karel van de Pijpekamp, Managing Director Northern Europe at...

Read More

2 March 2017

Topshop, GMB member strike over “workhouse conditions”

GMB members at a Topshop warehouse are set to walk out in anger at ‘workhouse conditions’. Comment from Doug Cooper, GMB organiser....

Read More

Law firms spike in senior hires to meet demand

Recruitment

1 March 2017

Read More

1 March 2017

Workers in the UK put in £33.6 billion worth of unpaid overtime a year

UK workers gave their employers £33.6 billion of free labour last year by doing unpaid overtime, according to new analysis of official statistics published by...

Read More

28 February 2017

Barclays – lower conduct costs, bigger profits

Barclays has announced a rise in full year profits to £3.2 billion, from £1.1 billion in 2015. Much of this rise was down to lower...

Read More

28 February 2017

Bereavement leave: How long is long enough?

Recent news revealed that Facebook has doubled its bereavement leave policy for employees. The new policy entitles bereaved staff members to 20 days paid leave,...

Read More

European employees “hugely optimistic” about 2017

HR in Business

27 February 2017

Newsletter

Receive the latest HR news and strategic content

Please note, as per the GDPR Legislation, we need to ensure you are ‘Opted In’ to receive updates from ‘theHRDIRECTOR’. We will NEVER sell, rent, share or give away your data to third parties. We only use it to send information about our products and updates within the HR space To see our Privacy Policy – click here