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Default retirement age proposals: FAQs and related age discrimination case

It won't have escaped your notice that the Government has published its proposals for abolishing the default retirement age and the associated statutory retirement procedure . If you don't have time to read the full 60-page consultation document...

Published 30 Jul 2010 10:41 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

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

What are the most common hazards of redundancy exercises?

Weak economic recovery is underway , but redundancies remain an all-too-common feature of the employment landscape. Latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the redundancy rate was 6.5 per 1,000 employees (PDF format...

Published 30 Jul 2010 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: termination of employment, public sector, redundancy, benchmarking, internal communications, public spending, internal communication, coalition government

Local government pension scheme: change needed but radical reform not a good idea

A report out today from the Audit Commission (PDF format 1.15Mb, external website) looks at ways to reform the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). It's quite a technical report on the funding issues, but worth a look as a preview of the issues...

Published 29 Jul 2010 11:05 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, public sector, pensions, local government

Retirement: Government proposes to scrap default retirement age (DRA) from 1 October 2011

The Government has today announced proposals to scrap the default retirement age (DRA) with effect from 1 October 2011 , personneltoday.com reports. Read More...

Published 29 Jul 2010 9:10 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: retirement, termination of employment, default retirement age, DRA

XpertHR benchmarking surveys: Why it pays to take part

We're collecting data all the time for XpertHR's fast-growing benchmarking service, via online questionnaires hosted at the IRS research website . Participation in our ongoing programme of online benchmarking surveys for HR, reward and employment...

Published 29 Jul 2010 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: xperthr, benchmarking, irs surveys, HR 2.0

Why employment law is 'too important to be left to employment lawyers'

"Employment law is too important to be left to employment lawyers." This is according to director of In-Company Training Services and XpertHR contributor Darren Newman , in an interesting blog comment on how employers might help themselves avoid...

Published 28 Jul 2010 8:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, grievances, employment tribunals, employment tribunal

French nuns go on the run after threat of enforced retirement

Two elderly nuns have gone on the run in France to escape being sent to a retirement home, reports the Daily Telegraph website . Read More...

Published 27 Jul 2010 4:34 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: retirement, termination of employment, france, default retirement age

Why it doesn't pay to be a graduate in 2010 (2): 'The worst of both worlds'?

"This is the worst of both worlds - we are producing graduates but we can't find any work for them." This is according to HR strategist and writer Kevin J Ball in a thought-provoking blog post, in which he weighs up the UK graduate labour...

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

Filed under: recruitment, graduate recruitment, interns, knowledge economy

Employer branding in 2010: Famous for 15 minutes, to 15 people?

Reading Edmund White's latest autobiographical volume, City Boy , on the train to XpertHR towers this morning, I came across a thought-provoking twist on Andy Warhol's maxim that "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes,"...

Published 26 Jul 2010 11:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: twitter, social networking, social media, employer brand, HR 2.0, employer branding

Why it doesn't pay to be a graduate in 2010 (1): The UK graduate labour market

Spare a thought for this year's crop of new graduates just now entering a particularly difficult labour market. Over recent years, conditions for graduates appear to have been worsening progressively (as my round-ups of why it didn't pay to be...

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

Filed under: recruitment, labour market, graduate recruitment

Economic recovery strengthens in Q2 2010 as GDP rises by 1.1%

The UK economy continued its recovery from recession in the second quarter of 2010, with the pace of growth in gross domestic product (GDP) accelerating to 1.1% (PDF format, 93.9K) , according to latest official data released today (Friday 23 July 2010...

Published 23 Jul 2010 10:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: economics, recession, gdp, george osborne, economic recovery

Employment tribunal decisions making the headlines: 10.07.10 to 23.07.10

A round-up of links to news items on recent employment tribunal rulings, including: a successful tribunal claim by workers whose jobs were axed after Portsmouth Football club went into administration; a caretaker who was fairly dismissed for drinking...

Published 23 Jul 2010 9:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: equal opportunities, termination of employment, sex discrimination, harassment, redundancy, disability discrimination, employment tribunals, disability, costs, unfair dismissal, age discrimination

Economic recovery: Does George Osborne have a plan B?

Economist David Blanchflower recently put forward an argument that the coalition Government's package of austerity measures - as outlined in Chancellor George Osborne's emergency Budget last month - is an all-or-nothing bid to revive and restructure...

Published 23 Jul 2010 8:05 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: economics, budget, george osborne, economic recovery, austerity measures, emergency budget

Pay rises still low despite high inflation

Pay awards in both the private and public sectors remain low despite high headline inflation, according to the latest research from IRS published exclusively on XpertHR (subscription required). Our provisional analysis shows that pay awards were worth...

Published 23 Jul 2010 6:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, public sector, pay awards, inflation, private sector pay, pay freeze

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