Nic Paton

1 week ago | personneltoday.com | Nic Paton

The government is set to announce plans to restrict work and visa applications from nationalities that it is felt are most likely to overstay and then claim asylum, it has been reported. According to a report in The Times, home secretary Yvette Cooper will aim to restrict work and study visa applications from a range of nationalities, including Pakistanis, Nigerians and Sri Lankans, who it believes are most likely to overstay and claim asylum.

1 week ago | personneltoday.com | Nic Paton

Academics, unions and charities have combined to call on the government to carry out a comprehensive review of parental leave, including maternity, paternity and shared parental leave and how time off and pay should all be managed and structured. In an open letter to employment minister Justin Madders, 15 academics and 18 organisations have advocated for changes to be made to parental leave.

2 weeks ago | personneltoday.com | Nic Paton

Employers are being urged to take a more active role in addressing loneliness inside and outside the workplace. Research from the Economics of Mutuality Alliance and the University of Manchester has concluded that as many as 44% of people around the world feel moderately to very lonely. The Business vs Loneliness study looked at more than 50,000 individual responses from participants in five countries: the US, Mexico, the UK, Germany and China.

3 weeks ago | lightingjournal.org.uk | Nic Paton

With registration now open, the countdown to June’s Lighting Live Annual Conference in Glasgow is now well and truly on – so get it in the diary and don’t delay. The year’s ILP annual lighting ‘summit’, the Lighting Live Annual Conference, is being held at the Crowne Plaza, Glasgow, from 18-19 June. The online registration process opened last month, and go to https://lightinglive.org.uk/2025annualconference/ for full details.

1 month ago | personneltoday.com | Nic Paton

Rising levels of sickness are taking a toll on many workplaces, research has suggested, with employers reporting increased absence affecting their productivity, service quality, staff morale and, ultimately, their bottom line. A poll of 233 employers by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) found nearly half (48.5%) said rising sickness rates were resulting in reduced productivity.