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Football news | FA appoints employment experts

News that the Football Association (FA) has hired new employment law advisers would not usually register that strongly on Personnel Today's news radar. But with FA chief executive Brian Barwick having just been given the push, the threat of more jobs...

Published 28 Aug 2008 9:32 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Employee Relations, Human Resources, employment law, football, Football Association, fabio capello, world cup
Personnel Today's Top 10 articles

Here are the top 10 news stories featured on Personneltoday.com over the past seven days. Unsurprisingly, the news that BP is scrapping its nine-day fortnight perk for staff came top of the list. The story recorded hundreds more hits than the number two...

Published 27 Aug 2008 9:35 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Human Resources
Credit Crunch | Solutions from the experts

Here at Personnel Today, we understand the credit crunch is hurting your purse/wallet, as well as your employer's, so we're keeping an eye out for great money-saving tips from the professionals, and will post them as they come up. This week, financial...

Published 26 Aug 2008 1:45 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, credit crunch, Employee Relations, Human Resources, business, Recruitment, money
Tribunals | Do media rules need a rethink?

High-profile employment tribunal cases, usually involving allegations of sex or race discrimination or bullying against City firms or celebrity employers attract huge amount of press coverage. Recent cases include a race discrimination claim against Sadie...

Published 25 Aug 2008 10:13 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, business, tribunals, celebrity, bullying, media, sex discrimination, press
Bank Holidays | Calls for more go simply unanswered

Surprise, surprise, unions have yet again urged the government to introduce another bank holiday - in late October as always - to bring the UK more into line with European countries. A 'new' report by the TUC out today (more likely a re-hash from...

Published 22 Aug 2008 1:36 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: government, business, unions, tuc, bbc, BERR, bank holidays; gordon brown
HR | Keeping an Eye on HR outsourcing

It's not often HR makes it into the pages of top satirical mag Private Eye. But in the latest issue hacks at the magazine have taken issue with the government's latest initiative to help smaller firms with employment law. The campaign aims to...

Published 21 Aug 2008 3:05 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Public Sector, government, hr, Human Resources, bbc, Capita, outsourcing, Private Eye
Flexible working | BP's nine days' disappear

News that employees at BP are to lose their option of working a nine-day fortnight is an embarassment to the company and the government. The policy allows staff at various BP offices in the UK to take every other Friday off if they work a set number of...

Published 19 Aug 2008 4:46 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: government, Employee Relations, Human Resources, business, BP, employer brand, reputation, flexible working, work-life balance
Recession | Seasoned HR pros will help weather economic storm

Sick to death of the gloom and doom surrounding the dire state of the UK economy? Well, you'd better get used to it. With Meryvn King's bleak forecast and this week's news that the number of firms planning redundancies has shot up to 27%,...

Published 15 Aug 2008 1:48 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Economics, Human Resources, business, Leadership, Recruitment
Flexible Working | A step too far?

In one of the most extreme cases of flexible working we at Personnel Today ever seen, it appears an executive director at Fenland District Council in Cambridgeshire will be working from his home in Adelaide. Not Adelaide in the UK (and Google Maps has...

Published 15 Aug 2008 12:40 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Human Resources, business, Leadership, Recruitment, Skills, finance, flexible work, Unemployment, councils, flexible working, Australia, employer responsibility, temporary workers
Acas | you couldn't make it up

Being an employment journalist is not always easy - but it is often remarkably so. Stories you would struggle to invent just keep on coming. After the government race watchdog was itself accused of racial discrimination against its staff , and employees...

Published 13 Aug 2008 8:24 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: strike, Employee Relations, Acas, CRE, industrial action, pay dispute, trade union, race discrimination
Meeting HR directors | Top 3 anecdotes

I spent most of last week meeting HR directors to find out more about them and their organisation. Some I followed around for a day, others I just met for coffee. Either way I have some funny anecdotes which I thought I should share with you. Here are...

Published 12 Aug 2008 12:54 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: hr professionals, hr, police, policing, moira brown, angela o'connor, drugs, npia, social care, care, needles, alcohol, heroin, elderly, guy pink, alcoholics
Recession | Fast food retailers defy the gloom

People are undoubtedly beginning to tighten the purse strings as the UK economy moves ever nearer to recession. High street retailers have been feeling the pinch for a number of months now as consumers cut their spending on all manner of purchases, from...

Published 6 Aug 2008 2:37 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: economy, Economics, business, Recruitment, jobs, recession, big macs, Dominos, mcdonalds, pizza, retailers
Tax incentives for health spending | Government must act

The government cannot realistically expect employers to fund workplace health schemes or pay to get sick staff back to work as long as it continues to tax this spending as a benefit. . A report out this week finds the government once again under fire...

Published 4 Aug 2008 4:38 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Human Resources, benefits, occupational health, tax incentives, vocational rehabilitation, Dame Carol Black, incapacity benefits
Not posh enough | Can your accent hold you back?

News that the one-time glamour model Jordan , now known primarily by her real name, Katie Price, was banned from bringing a group of friends to the Cartier Polo International may seem like a vintage 'silly season' item, but it's all over the...

Published 1 Aug 2008 11:20 AM by Editors Blog
Equal pay | Clarity needed as the elephants stampede

The equal pay saga dominating the local government landscape continues to rumble on its destructive course. Equal pay is now not so much the elephant in the room but a stampeding herd of angry pachyderms. Last week the Court of Appeal paved the way for...

Published 1 Aug 2008 9:12 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Public Sector, government, Human Resources, Equality, unions, local government, tribunals, Court of Appeal, councils, Acas, NHS, equal pay

August 2008 - Personneltoday.com Editors Blog

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Football news | FA appoints employment experts

Personnel Today's Top 10 articles

Credit Crunch | Solutions from the experts

Tribunals | Do media rules need a rethink?

Bank Holidays | Calls for more go simply unanswered

HR | Keeping an Eye on HR outsourcing

Flexible working | BP's nine days' disappear

Recession | Seasoned HR pros will help weather economic storm

Flexible Working | A step too far?

Acas | you couldn't make it up

Meeting HR directors | Top 3 anecdotes

Recession | Fast food retailers defy the gloom

Tax incentives for health spending | Government must act

Not posh enough | Can your accent hold you back?

Equal pay | Clarity needed as the elephants stampede