Retention of existing staff has become every bit as significant a priority as recruiting new talent, remarks John O’Neill, the vice-president of quality control with Janssen Phamaceutical.

A quarter of companies in Ireland say that there is a gender pay gap at their firm according to the 2019 Pay and Employment Practices Survey from CIPD Ireland and Industrial Relations News.

The Catholic Institute for Deaf People (CIPD) has been accused of “hiding” the extent of wanton spending from its main funder, the HSE, in an internal audit which lays bare the huge amounts being splashed out by some senior personnel working there between 2012 and 2015.

British employers plan to increase pay at the weakest rate since 2013, a survey shows, offering poor prospects for British households already strained by higher inflation since last year’s Brexit vote.

The challenge for people in human resource management is to spark changes in organisations which may have become altogether set in their ways, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Only a year after the Lansdowne Road Agreement, pay for civil and public servants is back on the agenda. Bernard Harbor looks at the issues involved.

People are increasingly going to work when they are ill, highlighting a culture of “presenteeism” rather than staff pulling sickies, research has revealed.

Unemployment in the UK will peak at 2.7 million next year, lower than previously predicted, although the jobs outlook would get worse if economic growth is weaker than expected, a new report said today.

THE Institute of Sport’s director of performance management, Gary Keegan, has warned that expectations of success from boxer Katie Taylor in the 2012 Olympics will have to be ‘managed’ in the run-up to the Games.

Unemployment in the UK will continue to rise at least until the summer of 2010, peaking at 2.8 million, a leading business group predicted today.

IRELAND has one of the highest rates of employee disaffection in the world, according to a study of workplace conflict.

Woolworths will continue its slow demise today with more than 150 branches closing, as the crisis gripping the British high street spreads.

UK blue chips were lent some Christmas cheer today as commodities boosted London's leading share index despite further dire news from the retail sector.

The number of British firms expected to make redundancies among their staff in the next few months has risen "sharply", suggesting that the tougher economic climate has started to hit the UK jobs market, according to a new report today.

Experts have today stated that there is no need for the current level of scaremongering surrounding jobs in the construction industry.

British firms have become more pessimistic about employment prospects in the next few months, but were keen to recruit workers from eastern Europe, according to a new report today.

JOBS growth is set to accelerate in Britain over the coming months, according to a recruitment survey.

Directors’ pay should not be subject to EU legislative restriction, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

SOME businesses have succumbed to the basic instinct of cutting personnel development budgets in the current economic climate, a national personnel conference has heard.