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What can HR do about employees secretly working two jobs?
As the government reportedly investigates the practice among public sector workers, People Management considers how businesses can monitor and prevent it
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Analysis: as Asos scraps DEI bonus target, what are the implications for HR and businesses?

People Management asks experts for their thoughts on the firm’s decision to focus its incentive scheme more on profitability
What were the biggest hiring issues for HR in 2023 and what can be done about them?

A survey of people and recruitment professionals found a host of factors are contributing to the current glut of unfilled vacancies
Breaking class barriers, neurodiversity affects everybody: five takeaways from the CIPD EDI Conference

From discussions about social mobility to how your organisation can embrace neurodivergent employees, People Management brings you highlights from the professional body’s annual event
Constant stress and zero tolerance of toxic workplaces: what Gen Z and millennials really think about work

Survey of 5,000 professionals also reveals younger workers' thoughts on wellbeing support and business attitudes to periods and menopause
CIPD EDI Conference: inclusive language is about ‘more than just political correctness’, delegates told

Senior policy adviser explains why choosing the right words is vital for HR at professional body's annual diversity event
One in seven HR leaders think men are better suited to management jobs, research reveals

Report also finds one in five senior people professionals would be reluctant to hire a woman they think might go on to start a family
Could AI lead to a four-day week?

With a study predicting projected productivity gains from artificial intelligence could reduce the working week, People Management looks at the pros and cons
Six in 10 unpaid carers have quit work or cut their hours, survey reveals

Businesses urged to prepare for new care leave legislation, as research finds juggling employment with demands at home is leaving workers unable to cope
Employee WhatsApp groups: a safe place to sound off or an extension of work?

Teachers were exposed by the BBC using poo emojis to describe vulnerable pupils in a WhatsApp chat. People Management weighs up the risks of using group messages with colleagues
People Management poll results: are employees dressing too casually at work?

Pyjamas and joggers have increasingly become the new home office uniform, but experts warn it blurs the lines between home and work life
Employment tribunals
Agency worker whose contract was cancelled hours after she disclosed her mental ill health was discriminated against, tribunal rules

Judge says claimant’s disability had a ‘significant influence’ on GP surgery’s decision to terminate the employment
60-year-old geophysicist whose boss called him a ‘pensioner’ and planned ways to ‘take him out’ was victim of discrimination and unfair dismissal, tribunal rules

Judge orders employer to pay worker £340k following his detrimental treatment because of the ‘long-term effect on his confidence’
Disabled woman told: ‘Don’t think you can swan in when you feel like it’ when seeking a phased return was constructively dismissed, tribunal rules

Care worker awarded £29k after judge also finds her employer discriminated against her
Tribunals alleging neurodiversity discrimination top 100 in a year – what can HR do about it?

‘There is more at stake than reducing claims’, experts say, urging employers to put more resources into getting the best out of everyone
Number of hybrid working tribunals rises by 50 per cent – what can HR do to avoid them?

Experts say people professionals have a crucial role to play in heading off claims as more employees are told to return to the office
Female hotel manager handed a 33 per cent pay cut during Covid was a victim of sex discrimination as two male managers only lost 25 per cent, tribunal rules

Judge says the differences could only be explained by the claimant’s gender
Judge vetoes use of polygraph at tribunal of waiter who quit after being told by her manager to ‘wear make-up’

Employee who suffered harassment attempted to use lie detector test results as part of her claim against her former employer
£37k awarded to office manager who was told: ‘Everybody gets menopause – just get on with it’

Judge says tribunal ‘had no difficulty in accepting’ employee had been harassed and unfairly dismissed, while organisations are warned to be more proactive in supporting menopausal workers
Truck driver who was sacked then reinstated amid fuel-skimming claims told to pay ex-employer £21k after pursuing ‘perplexing’ bid for compensation

Tribunal finds the attempt to win £50k was ‘doomed to fail from the outset’
Veteran farm worker who injured himself at work but refused employer access to medical records was unfairly dismissed and discriminated against, tribunal rules

Judge says despite firm’s ‘legitimate aim’ of trying to resolve the employee’s work status, it ignored the opportunity of an OH assessment
L&D
Tribunal tells retail chain to introduce new EDI training, particularly for ‘complacent’ managers, after it discriminated against a man with cerebral palsy

Respondent's training for new workers was insufficient and employees at all levels should get regular coaching, judge says

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Deputy Director, Line Management Capability Programme (LMC)
Cabinet Office, Glasgow, London, Sheffield
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Executive Director of Change and Innovation
Wandsworth & Richmond Council, Richmond upon Thames, London (Greater)
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HR Generalist
Essity, Prudhoe, Northumberland
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Director of People and Culture
Gloucestershire College, Gloucester, Gloucestershire