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One in three staff set to leave their jobs in 2008
2008-06-02 18:29:00 One in three UK employees expect to move jobs within the next 12 months, and HR managers must improve employee engagement to stand a chance of keeping them. According to market research company GfK NO More About: Jobs , Leave , Staff , 2008
O2 sacks staff for selling iPhones for profit on eBay
2008-06-02 18:13:00 Communications giant O2 has sacked at least six workers who used staff discounts to buy Apple iPhones and sold them on the internet at a profit, according to reports. Employees in London-based stores More About: Selling , Ebay , Profit , Staff
Financial pressures force injured staff back to work
2008-06-02 13:03:00 Victims of workplace accidents are being forced back to work before they are ready because of the rising cost of living, a survey has found. A phone poll conducted by the National Accident Helpline found more than 55% of r More About: Financial , Work , Force , Back , Staff
Welfare-to-work experts fear Tory 'boot camps' would harm business
2008-06-02 11:00:00 Welfare-to-work specialist A4e has warned against the 'employment boot camps' planned by the Conservative Party. Shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling told delegates at a Centre for Policy Studies event last wee More About: Business , Work , Experts , Fear , Boot
Google hiring policy is key to its success as best place to work in UK
2008-06-02 10:01:00 Google HR chief Liane Hornsey has attributed the internet search giant's success as More About: Google , Work , Success , Policy , Hiring
Points-based migration system makes work for employers
2008-06-02 02:01:00 The points-based immigration system has created an overwhelming burden on employers, who are struggling to understand and compl More About: System , Work , Points , Employers
Absence management hindered by poor record-keeping systems
2008-05-30 18:37:00 The ability of employers to manage absence is being hampered by ineffective record-keeping syste More About: Management , Systems , Record , Poor
Friday podcast: Change Management, Office Culture and Migrant Workers
2008-05-30 17:53:00 HR news and analysis including: Exclusive interviews with senior HR figures at Vodafone, Unilever, Royal Mail and Taylor and Francis on how HR can help their business leaders go through today's rapid pace of change. More About: Culture , Office , Workers , Management , Change
British Gas 'engagement champions' to improve communications
2008-05-30 13:57:00 A way of improving staff engagement and communication at no extra cost was unveiled by British Gas Business at the Great Place to Work Institute event. Claire Posaner, HR director for the business-to- More About: Champions , Improve , Communications , British Gas
Travelodge hotel chain recruits long-term unemployed
2008-05-30 13:13:00 The long-term unemployed will make up three-quarters of the staff that have been recruited at the new Travelodge hotel chain in London, Southwark, which opens next week. Of the 50 staff hired to the c More About: Hotel , Long , Chain , Term
Police focus on government targets overlooks public duty
2008-05-30 12:17:00 Police forces are prioritising petty crimes and government targets ahead of serving the public, a report out today has claimed. A stud More About: Government , Public , Police , Focus , Duty
?Generation Y? assumptions flawed, survey reveals
2008-05-30 02:01:00 Many of the stereotypes of so-called Generation Y workers have been turned on their head by More About: Survey , Assumptions , Generation Y
Prosecute universities and colleges that flout discrimination law, urges un
2008-05-29 11:55:00 Colleges and universities are failing to write ra More About: Colleges , Discrimination
Google HR director celebrates award for best place to work in the UK
2008-05-28 18:13:00 Google HR chief Liane Hornsey this morning spoke of the im More About: Google , Work , Award , Place , Director
Young benefit claimants face employment boot camps under Tory plans
2008-05-28 12:09:00 Young people would be forced to go to 'employment boot camps' under plans revealed by the Conservative Party yesterday. Sh More About: Employment , Young , Plans , Face , Benefit
Staff sickness absence falls by 33% at Basildon Council
2008-05-28 10:00:00 A local authority has slashed its sick leave by one-third in little over a year with the introduction of manager training and an occupational health (OH) system. Basildon Council in Essex has published figures showing that More About: Sickness , Staff , Falls
Flexible working requests rejected by 69% of employers according to Labour
2008-05-27 17:00:00 Flexible working arrangements are proving hard to secure despite new laws - with seven in 10 employers admitting they rarely accept requests to work from home. The Labour Market Outlook survey of 735 UK employers, More About: Rejected , Working , Flexible , Requests
E-learning expertise to transform Sheffield from steel industry image to cr
2008-05-27 16:00:00 Sheffield is bidding to be the e-learning capital of Europe through a purpose-built business park development. Called the Digital Campus it will comprise More About: Industry , Learning , Image , Steel
Diversity association set up to promote best practice
2008-05-27 02:01:00 A new diversity body to promote codes of professional practice has been set up and officially registered, it has emerged. The doomed Learning and Skills Council (LSC) last year recommended that a new association should be d More About: Promote , Diversity , Practice , Association
Ethnic minorities still under-represented in senior further education roles
2008-05-23 16:54:00 Black and minority ethnic (BME) staff working in further education (FE) are still under-represented in management and leadership roles in the sector. A study by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership More About: Education , Senior , Minorities , Ethnic
Cable and Wireless staff to vote on union recognition
2008-05-23 16:44:00 Workers at Cable and Wireless are set to begin voting for union recognition amid accusations of union-busting tactics by the communications giant. More than 350 ballot papers sent by the Communication More About: Union , Vote , Recognition , Staff
Home secretary dismisses police strike threat
2008-05-23 12:44:00 Home secretary Jacqui Smith dismissed fears that police officers would go on strike as a result of the ongoing police pay dispute and denied they were demotivated. More About: Home , Police , Strike , Home Secretary , Threat
Proctor & Gamble links manager pay to diversity
2008-05-23 10:05:00 Managers at consumer goods giant Proctor Gamble have their pay linked to the way the manage diversity, the consumer goods giant's HR director told delegates at the CIPD diversity conference this week. Madalyn Brooks s More About: Links , Manager , Diversity
Friday podcast: agency workers receive rights from 12 weeks, police HR, sex
2008-05-23 02:00:00 HR news and analysis including: The agency workers deal which will give temporary and agency workers "equal" rights to permanent staff from just 12 weeks of employment Home secretary Jacqui Smith says she More About: Workers , Agency , Rights , Police , Podcast
Bullying culture in Fire Service exposed by country-wide survey
2008-05-22 19:51:00 Firefighters are suffering high levels of bullying, harassment and violence at work, a service-wide survey has revealed. A study of 1,869 ser More About: Culture , Country , Survey , Service , Bullying
Equality minister exposes House of Commons diversity scams
2008-05-22 17:47:00 Equality minister Barbara Follett has lifted the lid on diversity scams in the House of Commons. There are only 125 women in Parliament, compared with 520 More About: Diversity , Scams , Minister , Equality
Agency workers Bill withdrawn from Parliament
2008-05-22 16:47:00 The Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill proposed by Labour MP Andrew Miller has been withdrawn followi More About: Parliament
Jobseekers confident despite Bank of England?s gloomy forecast
2008-05-22 15:00:00 One in two UK workers plans to move jobs to increase their pay this year, despite grim employment forecasts. A survey of 4,500 people carried out for online recruitment firm Jobsite found that 47% wer More About: England , Bank , Bank of England , Forecast
People matters are a mystery to most FTSE350 CEOs
2008-05-22 14:57:00 Only 20% of chief executives at FTSE350 firms polled recently knew how many people worked at their head office or how much their HQs cost to run. The Future of the Corporate Centre study, con More About: People , Mystery , Matters
£5,000 sex discrimination award to woman against laddish direct marketing f
More articles from this author:2008-05-22 11:23:00 Telesales account manager Theresa Bailey was recently awarded £5,146 by an employment tribunal after her manager forced her to wear a badge proclaiming "I'm Simple". Bailey, 43 - the only woman on her sales team at Kent dir More About: Marketing , Direct Marketing , Direct , Woman , Discrimination 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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