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Redundancy: can employers favour women on maternity leave over men?

Scoring employees against redundancy selection criteria is tricky at the best of times, and as Personnel Today recently reported , even leading employment law firms can get into trouble. However, hidden behind the slightly misrepresentative reports that...

Published 28 May 2010 10:35 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, employee rights, sex discrimination, maternity leave, redundancy, business practices, unfair dismissal, Eversheds

Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 15.05.10 to 28.05.10

A round up of links to news items on recent employment tribunal rulings, including: a male lawyer made redundant over a colleague on maternity leave; a garden centre worker who was dismissed for taking home a goldfish he was told to dispose of; and an...

Published 28 May 2010 9:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, sex discrimination, maternity leave, redundancy, race discrimination, pregnancy, sexual harassment, unfair dismissal

Employment Tribunals: get the very latest information

IRS is conducting confidential research exploring employer practice when it comes to preparing for, and defending against, employment tribunal claims. Recent reforms have been put in place to encourage settlement of individual grievances outside the courts...

Published 28 May 2010 8:59 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights, employee relations

Pay trends May 2010: Record gap between pay and inflation

The headline pay award held firm at 1% over the three months to 30 April 2010 (subscription required), according to latest pay trends data from IRS for XpertHR. However, as inflation continues to soar, the gap between pay awards and inflation is now wider...

Published 28 May 2010 8:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, pay awards, inflation, irs, pay freeze

Public spending cuts 2010/2011: Osborne's initial £6.2bn cuts to knock 0.5 percentage points off GDP?

Economist and former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member David Blanchflower has warned that Chancellor George Osborne's initial £6.2 billion worth of public spending cuts - announced earlier this week , and due to be enacted by April...

Published 28 May 2010 8:10 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: economics, public spending, gdp, george osborne, economic recovery

Coalition Government and the workplace

In this month's XpertHR outlook video we speculate about what the coalition Government's Programme for government (on the Cabinet Office website) could mean for the workplace and employment law. Read More...

Published 28 May 2010 7:46 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee rights

What does the CIPD mean to you?

This morning, anonymous HR blogger the HRD (author of the My Hell Is Other People blog (external website), one of the HR bloggers' blogs of choice , according to our informal 2010 survey) set out his controversial views on the Chartered Institute...

Published 27 May 2010 2:55 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: hr policy and strategy, cipd, blogging, blogs, HR 2.0, sartre, thehrd, myhellisotherpeople

Social media impact on internal communications

Consultancy Melcrum has just published findings from a survey of 2,600 internal communications professionals. Personnel Today has delved into the survey and pulled out some HR related points. An interesting point to note is that organisations which use...

Published 27 May 2010 1:04 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: social media, HR 2.0, internal communication

IRS/XpertHR trade unions survey 2010: Why it pays to benchmark your relations with trade unions

With the British Airways strike ongoing (external website), strike action at BT in prospect (external website), and the possibility of a summer of discontent , it is timely for UK employers to take stock of their relations with trade unions. Taking part...

Published 27 May 2010 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: trade unions, employee relations, industrial action, benchmarking, irs

Public spending cuts in 2010/2011: Opportunities and threats for public sector HR?

The initial £6.2 billion worth of public spending cuts to be enacted by April 2011 - set out by Chancellor George Osborne on Monday 24 May 2010 - have met with a mixed response from public sector HR professionals. Personnel Today has assembled an HR austerity...

Published 26 May 2010 12:35 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: public sector, hr policy and strategy, public spending, HR, george osborne, austerity measures, austerity panel

100-year-old doctor has delivered 18,000 babies

An American doctor is still working at the age of 100 and has had over 60 years in practice as an obstetrician, reports the Daily Telegraph website . Read More...

Published 26 May 2010 9:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: retirement, equal opportunities, age, termination of employment, age discrimination

Competencies in the workplace: Take part in our 2010 benchmarking survey

Over recent years, the flexibility of the competency approach has attracted increasing numbers of employers, yet this very flexibility can also make competency frameworks difficult to understand and use. To assess the status of competencies in the workplace...

Published 26 May 2010 8:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: xperthr, training and development, benchmarking, irs surveys, training, competency, competencies

Tribunal awards NHS manager more than £180,000 compensation for age discrimination

A senior NHS manager has been awarded £181,500 compensation for age discrimination and victimisation. Linda Sturdy (external website), who set up the breast screening service for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and had run it for 16 years, was passed...

Published 25 May 2010 5:17 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: equal opportunities, tribunals, compensation, age discrimination

Coalition Government will review police terms and conditions

In its Programme for government (PDF format, 475K) (on the Cabinet Office website), the coalition Government has set out its intentions on a range of issues, a number of which will affect employers (see my colleague, Sarah Welfare's post) . Of particular...

Published 25 May 2010 12:13 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: terms and conditions, police

Economic recovery struggles on: 0.3% GDP growth in first quarter of 2010

The first official data release on gross domestic product (GDP) to be published under the new coalition Government shows some signs of improvement, although economic growth remains weak overall (external website). Latest revised data put estimated GDP...

Published 25 May 2010 10:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: economics, gdp, economic recovery

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