Friday Podcast: Apprenticeship drive, M&S whistleblower, discrimination cases

Rob Moss09 January 2009 15:56

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As the government steps up efforts to urge employers to offer apprenticeships, HR practitioners are concerned how this may come across as yet more job cuts are on the cards.
M&S whistleblower Tony Goode talks to Personnel Today's sister publication Computer Weekly on his imminent trial, why he blew the whistle on a measure to cut redundancy pay, why there is a "culture of surveillance" at M&S, and why he thinks he was unfairly dismissed. See the full video footage online
Two discrimination cases involving a muslim woman at HBOS and the Met Police.

Presenter Louisa Peacock is joined by Guy Logan and John Charlton.

Co-edited by Louisa Peacock and Guy Logan.

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