Employees can claim for unpaid holiday through Working Time Regulations 1998, or for unlawful deductions from wages under the Employment Rights Act 1996

Fried chicken chain KFC is planning to gain accreditation for its training scheme so it can award its own NVQ qualifications to staff

'With a reduced recruitment budget, we will have to work smarter. We are also keen to retain existing talent without being able to offer staff a pay rise this year. What methods can we use to encourage them to stay with us through these tough times?'

Diversity training could be set to become a more daunting experience in future after psychometric tests that establish whether a person holds discriminatory attitudes hit the market

The CIPD recently launched its flagship project ‘Shaping the Future’, which will take an in-depth look at high-performance working

Organisational development has been around since the late 1940s, but even practitioners working in this field find it difficult to define precisely. Valerie Garrow and Sharon Varney hold a mirror up to the discipline

Bureaucracy is the bane of HR. We need to unfetter ourselves from paperwork and policies – and focus on what matters to business, writes Gillian Hibberd

How did Europe’s largest local authority turn its workforce from demotivated and disengaged to high-performing in only two years? Anat Arkin reports on a values-based change programme that gave team members the power to make a difference

In part one of our major new series, Jane Pickard explains why the old pensions model collapsed, and explores how employers are trying to make the sums add up again

All the information needed for employers worried about swine flu and how it may affect HR and their organisation - including the latest news, legal advice and links to government health advice

For managers, facilitation is an important skill - it makes it easy to solve problems, gain consensus and mediate conflict

As the economic growth of the Gulf states stutters, HR is coming to the fore to help build sustainable work practices for a diversified future. Eila Rana reports