Charissa King

Leaders of the University of Sussex began consulting yesterday (28 May) over potential redundancies, amid plans to cut 200 jobs and save £35m annually, the BBC reported on 27 May. The 45-day consultation concerns potential redundancies in administration, student support and IT services. In a statement, a spokesperson from the trade union Unison noted that the university has already used two voluntary redundancy schemes to cut 528 jobs in the last year.

We've identified themes that can act as a checklist for improving disciplinary policies and processes, in the NHS and beyond. There has been an increasing focus in the NHS on the harm to employees, and the impact on organisations associated with the poor application and management of its disciplinary policies and processes. On an employee level, the harm not only affects individuals at the centre of the process, but can also affect those responsible for delivering and contributing to them.

HR teams must improve their sense of how workers can be sponsored in the current climate. It has been a long 12 months since the government published its white paper on immigration. Despite an initial flurry of changes to the skilled work visa routes, we now await the remaining policies to become law against the backdrop of Reform’s proposals to deport temporary migrants, a potential prime minister hoping to rejoin the EU and the current leader trying to please everyone in between.