The government has indicated that it will scrap the default retirement age (DRA) following its review of the law that allows employers to force staff to retire at 65.

Tax relief on employer childcare vouchers is to be removed by April 2015, Gordon Brown announced yesterday.

Better employee engagement could have prevented last year's near-collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), according to the author of a government-commissioned review.

Milk producer Dairy Crest has become the latest employer to close its final salary pension scheme to its existing members.

The social and economic problems in UK cities are going to get much worse in the face of an inevitable squeeze on public spending, CIPD chief economist John Philpott warned delegates at a Labour Party conference fringe event.

Targets for Local Employment Partnerships (LEPs) to get people into work will be trebled from 250,000 to 750,000, the government has said.

The training costs of eight Scottish councils are set to be reduced by 25 per cent as they roll out a collaborative e-learning scheme.

Bankers have been warned by the chancellor to expect new rules to stop automatic bonuses and immediate payouts for top management in a matter of weeks.

The recession has given opportunities to organisational development (OD) professionals to make changes that would not otherwise have been possible, according to David Stephenson, group head of OD at Royal Mail.

Tighter training budgets have failed to reduce the use of coaching by employers and could be responsible for an increase in its practise, CIPD research has found.