Around 50 new model policies and documents have been added to XpertHR in 2009. But what have been the most popular? The XpertHR employment intelligence blog provides a round-up.

A number of major retailers have ceased to employ a Santa Claus directly, but instead are choosing to contract out the service using external employment agencies, according to research undertaken by XpertHR. In another blow to tradition, there is also...

The UK economy is inching slowly back towards recovery, but remains in recession (external website) for now. Growth in gross domestic product (GDP) is still stuck in negative territory in the third quarter of 2009, latest data from the Office for...

Want to receive the answer to a frequently asked HR question every day? If you're on Twitter, you can do so by following HRdailyquestion. The questions come from the popular XpertHR FAQs section, which contains over 1,000 frequently asked HR questions...

With more snow forecast in some areas, employers are still facing the problem of how to deal with employees who can't get to work because of icy roads, disrupted public transport, or problems with childcare arrangements. The BBC has published a Q&A...