Public-sector workers in France are staging a series of strikes against plans to raise the state pension age from 60 to 62 from 2018.

Four-fifths of employees feel that talent management programmes make them more engaged at work, a new CIPD research report has revealed.

A new hospital in Scotland is to use robots to carry out tasks that would otherwise be carried out by porters or orderlies.

Recruiters at Brighton and Hove City Council have found themselves in a spat with rock band Status Quo. The council advertised for four senior positions using the strapline 'Status Quo fans need not apply'.

The Chinese Communist Party has called on employers to raise salaries and improve workers' training after foreign firms such as Toyota, Honda and Hyundai were hit by strikes.

Government estimates show that 1.3 million jobs will be lost over five years as a result of the spending cuts announced in the budget, it has been reported.

Large private service providers are in the frame to help the government deliver its expanded welfare to work programme as contracts opened for bids today.

The last day of the SHRM annual conference saw HR professionals challenged to step up and champion ethics and values within their organisations. In his session on ethical leadership, Don Soderquist, former long-serving COO of Wal-Mart, told delegates: 'HR has an obligation to preach, preach, preach the values of our company!'

Vodafone is running a leadership programme for senior managers in its Qatar office to help promote cultural understanding within its multinational workforce.

The BBC has announced radical changes to its pension scheme today, after revealing the plan's deficit had quadrupled in two years.