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1 week ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
Reform UK is facing accusations of double standards after listing work from home (WFH) vacancies, despite Nigel Farage’s outspoken support of returning to office. In a BBC Breakfast interview, Farage warned that remote workers “all better really be seeking alternative careers very, very quickly”, after the party took control of 10 local authorities last week in unprecedented local election results.
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1 week ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
During a panel at Octopus Money’s Mind the Gap event yesterday (7 May), Chelsea Karaolis, CEO and founder of Unify, recalled beginning her career interviewing at five recruitment firms and finding only one had a female leader. “She had to fight for me to get the job,” she said, noting comments from other interviewers about the “street twang” in her voice, and whether her manager could “knock the street” out of her.
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1 week ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
Nearly all (97 per cent) HR leaders claim their organisations offer artificial intelligence training, but only two in five (39 per cent) employees have received it, research has revealed. Corndel’s 2025 Workplace Training Report, which gathered insights from 250 HR leaders and 1,000 UK employees, highlighted that only 44 per cent of employees felt their organisations were ready to adopt AI – despite 88 per cent of HR leaders expressing confidence in their teams’ preparedness.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
Statutory paternity pay will be limited to those who have maintained employment with the same employer for a minimum of six months, according to a report by the Guardian. The newspaper reported that Labour’s proposed employment rights bill will secure day one paternity leave for an estimated 30,000 new fathers, yet the benefit will not come with pay from the outset.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
Police and firms are cracking down on ‘polygamous’ workers who secretly juggle multiple jobs without informing their primary employer. The latest report by the National Fraud Initiative, involving a pilot of several London boroughs, found 23 instances of individuals working multiple jobs. The scheme uncovered around half a million pounds of overpaid salaries over a period of a few months.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
JPMorgan and Amazon have reintroduced the employee suggestion box – a tool companies use to collect feedback from staff on ways to enhance the workplace. According to a , Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan, asked his employees to email him examples of time-wasting activities. “I’m just asking you to sit down and have a little fun thinking about the stupid stuff we do, the bureaucratic stuff we do – about things you would change if you were able to,” he said.
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3 weeks ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
Talks around football tend to centre on the players, the score and the game. But equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), while not often spoken about in the sport, is an essential part of Fulham FC – as explained by Jamie Dapaah in a keynote at the HR Technologies conference yesterday (24 April). Following the tragic death of George Floyd in 2020, Dapaah felt the club needed to use its influential voice to advocate for inclusivity.
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3 weeks ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
A recruitment worker who returned to her office after maternity leave to find it “cleared out” has been awarded more than £25k at tribunal. Anna Munkevics returned from maternity leave to find her office empty, and when she inquired with staff at a nearby Greggs, she was informed that a removal van had taken everything, the Midlands West tribunal heard.
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3 weeks ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
Women are nearly two thirds (62 per cent) more likely to feel unsupported at work for health issues than men, a survey has found. The Workplace Health and Wellbeing 2025 Survey from UK Meds, which polled employees from 280 workplaces, also revealed 60 per cent of women believed their health issues were not taken seriously in the workplace. An additional 13 per cent of women felt completely unsupported when dealing with health concerns at work.
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3 weeks ago | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Freddie Clemo
Incidents involving employee data breaches climbed to their highest level in at least six years last year, increasing by 14 per cent on the year before, according to analysis by Nockolds. Reports to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) of breaches jumped from 3,208 in 2023 to 3,679 in 2024, the analysis found. This marks the highest number of employee-related data breach reports since 2019, when the ICO received 3,010 breaches.
