Employers are operating on a skills surplus rather than facing a skills gap, and must change their management practices to survive the recession, research has found.

Plans to allow mothers and fathers to share a year of parental leave, with fathers able to take six months leave after the mother's first six months, have been shelved by the government to help employers during the recession.

Exclusive The crisis enveloping Islington Council's HR function has escalated with the revelation that HR director Maria King has been suspended, Personnel Today can exclusively reveal.</ST

Lillian Ladele, a Christian registrar who claimed she faced religious discrimination after she refused to conduct civil partnership ceremonies, has lost her appeal. Ladele, a registrar of births, deaths and marriages for t

The threat of legal action by the European Commission could increase pressure on the government to get the Equality Bill onto the statute book early next year. The commission has accused the UK of failing to implement aspec

Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth is to outline job cuts which he hopes will help pay for extra equipment for troops serving in Afghanistan promised by prime minister Gordon Brown yesterday. According to AA<A href="http://ne

A social worker who warned ministers of failings in Haringey Council's children's services is to sue the council. Nevres Kemal expressed her initial concerns in February 2007, five months before the death of AA<A href="htt