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Retirement age debate hots up

Personnel Today and the Employers Forum on Age hosted a debate on the default retirement age (DRA) of 65 in London yesterday. The debate was chaired by FT columnist Stefan Stern, who has reported it on his blog, and featured... Read More...

Published 29 Jul 2009 7:42 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, Equality, retirementage, dra
Consultation on simplifying the skills system (yes, another one)

What's that sound we can all hear? Oh, it's just the sound of deckchairs being reshuffled as yet another consultation into the UK's skills system is launched.The UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) is inviting everyone with an...

Published 21 Jul 2009 5:50 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, Skills, ukces
MacLeod Review fails to tell HR anything new

After 10 months' work, the much feted MacLeod Review has concluded what the vast majority of the HR community has known for years: that employee engagement makes business sense.Given the tough economic climate it may seem strange to some that... Read...

Published 17 Jul 2009 4:27 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Employee Relations, hr, Human Resources, macleodreview, employeeengagement
Heyday retirement age case reaches final stage

Today marks what is hopefully the final stage of a three-year legal challenge against the default retirement age of 65.The so-called Heyday case begins at the High Court where the government will attempt to make the case why its social... Read More.....

Published 15 Jul 2009 10:06 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, Human Resources, Equality, retirementage, heyday, dra
LinkedIn saved Microsoft £60,000 in recruitment costs

Microsoft's recruitment costs have been slashed thanks to LinkedIn. What's more, it's not alone according to a report on Personnel Today's sister site Computer Weekly by Karl Flinders: Will LinkedIn and Second Life kill the recruitment...

Published 8 Jul 2009 4:34 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Recruitment, recession, barkers, linkedin, secondlife, microsoft
Personnel Today Awards slideshow

I've created a slideshow of the Personnel Today Awards 2008 using Smilebox. I think it really gives a flavour of the event and what we can look forward to this year. Make a Smilebox slideshow... Read More...

Published 7 Jul 2009 8:10 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Human Resources, personneltodayawards
Workplace Commission idea worth exploring

I'm attracted by the CIPD's idea of merging the plethora of employment and skills quangos into a single Workplace Commission.CIPD public policy director John Philpott is right when he says the quangocracy operating in the UK employment policy...

Published 7 Jul 2009 3:53 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Politics, Skills, cipd, employment, johnphilpott, quangos
'Nameless CV' proposal comes back to haunt HR

Just as you thought you'd heard the last of the 'nameless CV' proposal, it is rearing its ugly head again. Angry HR professionals opposing the idea wrote to us back in May slamming the proposal for job applications to be... Read More...

Published 6 Jul 2009 7:10 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, Human Resources, Recruitment, discrimination, equalitybill, cvs

July 2009 - Personneltoday.com Editors Blog

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Retirement age debate hots up

Consultation on simplifying the skills system (yes, another one)

MacLeod Review fails to tell HR anything new

Heyday retirement age case reaches final stage

LinkedIn saved Microsoft £60,000 in recruitment costs

Personnel Today Awards slideshow

Workplace Commission idea worth exploring

'Nameless CV' proposal comes back to haunt HR