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Addressing dip in staff morale

Leslie Strathie, appointed chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs at the tail end of last year, has announced that she is commissioning a cultural survey to examine what lies behind low staff morale at HMRC, as revealed by a number of surveys (ePolitix...

Published 31 Jul 2009 1:27 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: termination of employment, employee relations, redundancy, morale and motivation
Pay awards in 2009: The only way is down?

At first glance, the recent direction taken by UK pay awards appears to be relentlessly downward. After all, the IRS headline pay award now stands at 1.3% over the three months to 30 June 2009. This is down from 3.3% a year ago (for the three months to...

Published 31 Jul 2009 8:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards
Top 10 HR questions - July 2009

Swine flu and the workplace - it comes as no surprise that many of the most frequently accessed FAQs on XpertHR throughout July were on this subject (see Swine flu - guidance for employers for up-to-date information and guidance). Other popular questions...

Published 31 Jul 2009 7:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, recruitment, termination of employment, employee rights, health and safety, holiday, contracts of employment, maternity leave, redundancy, absence management, swine flu, probation, employee deaths, adoption leave
Football club chef wins constructive dismissal case

The head chef at Scottish football club Livingstone FC has successfully claimed constructive unfair dismissal because he was given instructions only in Italian, a language he doesn't understand. Following a takeover at the club by a new chairman,...

Published 30 Jul 2009 1:28 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: termination of employment, contractual terms, tribunals, constructive dismissal
Swine flu: Government predicts 12% peak absence rate in August/September 2009

As many as one in eight UK workers could be off sick (external website) when the current wave of the 2009 swine flu pandemic reaches its expected peak in the coming weeks, according to Government estimates. Read More...

Published 30 Jul 2009 12:15 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, absence, homeworking, swine flu, h1n1
Pay is taking the brunt of the recession in 2009

The impact of the 2009 recession is being keenly felt at a majority of UK workplaces: pay awards have slumped to an all-time low , while unemployment is showing rapid growth . But given the scale of the economic downturn, some commentators are arguing...

Published 30 Jul 2009 8:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, bank of england, monetary policy committee, unemployment, pay freeze
Goodbye House of Lords, hello Supreme Court

Today will see the final judgments of the House of Lords, before its role as the final appeal Court in the UK comes to an end on 31 July. A new UK Supreme Court will open in October, separating the judicial function from Parliament. Read More...

Published 30 Jul 2009 8:25 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employment tribunals, employment, house of lords, supreme court
Warning for employers on swine flu litigation

Employers are being warned of the risk of litigation resulting from employees contracting swine flu at work. The article on the Guardian website quotes employment lawyers highlighting potential personal injury claims and claims resulting from breaches...

Published 28 Jul 2009 4:39 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: health and safety, swine flu, personal injury
How to manage international assignments

The XpertHR guide How to manage international assignments (subscription required) has recently been updated. The article gives guidance for employers on the practicalities of having employees working abroad (on long or short-term secondments) and explains...

Published 28 Jul 2009 2:55 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: international, immigration, secondments
Swine flu drives threefold increase in UK sickness absence rates

The swine flu pandemic is causing UK absence rates to soar (external website), resulting in a threefold increase in absence rates, according to latest data from absence management support company FirstCare. Read More...

Published 28 Jul 2009 8:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, absence, contingency planning, swine flu
Hag update

For those of you waiting with bated breath to discover who will be chosen to fill the lucrative post of 'witch' at Wookey Hole (as reported in my previous blog post ), fear not - the auditions are on Tuesday. Read More...

Published 27 Jul 2009 4:04 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: contracts of employment, job applications
Lower bonuses, higher salaries for bankers?

Could the sun be setting once and for all on bankers' bonuses? Financial services employer JPMorgan Chase has announced that it will cut bonuses (external website) paid to some 12,000 bankers across its global workforce, FT.com reports. It will instead...

Published 27 Jul 2009 3:25 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, bonuses, recession
Swine flu FAQs added to XpertHR

Every day this week, we'll be adding new swine flu FAQs to XpertHR in response to employers' questions about the impact of swine flu on their organisations. The first three questions have been added to the XpertHR dedicated swine flu resources...

Published 27 Jul 2009 1:13 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: health and safety, xperthr, hr policy and strategy, swine flu, faqs
Engage employees now to retain them when the economic upturn comes

The recession is staving off a mass exodus of dissatisfied employees (external website). So employers are well advised to focus on boosting employee engagement now in order to retain their workforce once economic recovery gets underway. These are among...

Published 27 Jul 2009 8:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: retention, labour market, hr policy and strategy, recession, employee engagement, engagement
Another ruling on legal representation at disciplinary hearings

Following on from the High Court ruling in R (on the application of G) v Governors of X School and Y City Council , the Court of Appeal has now said that a doctor can be accompanied by a lawyer at a disciplinary hearing in circumstances where he or she...

Published 27 Jul 2009 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights, disciplinary procedures

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Addressing dip in staff morale

Pay awards in 2009: The only way is down?

Top 10 HR questions - July 2009

Football club chef wins constructive dismissal case

Swine flu: Government predicts 12% peak absence rate in August/September 2009

Pay is taking the brunt of the recession in 2009

Goodbye House of Lords, hello Supreme Court

Warning for employers on swine flu litigation

How to manage international assignments

Swine flu drives threefold increase in UK sickness absence rates

Hag update

Lower bonuses, higher salaries for bankers?

Swine flu FAQs added to XpertHR

Engage employees now to retain them when the economic upturn comes

Another ruling on legal representation at disciplinary hearings