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Budget 2009 | It'll leave you gasping for air

Lots of questions about what the 2009 Budget will entail, and at the moment, your guess is as good as mine. Actually, probably not as good, but not far off. Sunday will likely see a few leaks from Wednesday's Budget, but nothing that will blow employers...

Published 17 Apr 2009 8:51 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Politics, employers, Economics, business, Recruitment, Training, CBI, tuc, cipd, gordonbrown, prebudgetreport, alistairdarling, budget

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

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

Recruitment | Flip a coin for your next job

Following news that pickings in the finance sector are growing slimmer by the day , an online job ad is causing quite a stir around the web. A hedge fund in Palo Alto , one of the USA's most expensive cities in which to live, is on the hunt for software...

Published 25 Jul 2008 2:00 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: employers, Economics, Human Resources, business, job, Recruitment, Private Sector, Unemployment, recession, financial services

Pay awards | Strikes, wages and inflation

For those of you slightly bemused by the relationship between wages and the effect it has on inflation, my colleague Sheila Atwood on XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog gives a good explanation. Chancellor Alistair Darling reiterated his call...

Published 18 Jul 2008 10:41 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Public Sector, employers, pay, inflation, Economics, Industrial Relations, unions, strikes, local government, wages, alistair darling

Reward | Boosting visibility of benefits is now key priority

Gordon Brown last week called for restraint and ordered the Cabinet and all ministers to forgo their pay increases this year as part of government attempts to control public sector wages. The move was intended to set an example to the nation, and was...

Published 23 Jun 2008 10:46 AM by Editors Blog

Filed under: Public Sector, Politics, economy, reward, government, fuel, employers, pay, employees, inflation, Economics

Below-inflation pay rates | Staff feel the squeeze

Demanding a pay rise in line with inflation used to be the very least you might expect from your employer. But research by our sister publication IRS has found that just 6.1% of pay awards are now worth more than the headline rate of inflation (retail...

Published 18 Jun 2008 2:34 PM by Editors Blog

Filed under: reward, inflation, Economics, strike, hr professionals, industrial dispute, credit crunch

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