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• World Cup 2010: will football fever get your organisation hot under the collar?

  Poll from Snap Survey Software With the Football World Cup less than 100 days away, what plans has your organisation put in place to allow employees follow their national team? Take part in our poll and it will link you to the latest IRS survey which... Posted Mar 03 2010, 01:43 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: health and safety, terms and conditions, employee relations, hr policy and practice, hr policy and strategy, business practices, hr policy, sporting policy

• Benchmarking sporting policy in 2010: Take part in the IRS/XpertHR survey

  With the Winter Olympics well underway and the football World Cup looming in June 2010, we're running a timely benchmarking survey on how employers deal with the workplace impact of major sporting events . Read More... Posted Feb 19 2010, 01:30 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: xperthr, benchmarking, hr policy and strategy, Olympics, irs surveys, sport, World Cup, sporting policy

• Fit-note guidance for employers published

  The Department for Work and Pensions has published guidance to help employers use the new fit note and get staff back to work following periods of ill-health. The employers' guidance (PDF, on the DWP website) is intended to help employers understand... Posted Feb 19 2010, 12:46 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: hr policy and strategy, absence management, absence, employers, GPs, fit note, guidance, DWP

• Do you allow lawyers to internal disciplinary hearings?

  It is common knowledge that employees are legally entitled to be accompanied at disciplinary hearings by a work colleague or union official. But most organisations' disciplinary procedures do not make mention of whether or not employees have the right... Posted Feb 16 2010, 04:17 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: employee rights, contracts of employment, terms and conditions, grievances, disciplinary procedures, hr policy and strategy, research

• Times writer hits out at HR as "grossly overpaid"

  " British HR executives are grossly overpaid, those in the public sector particularly so " (external website), according to an article in the Times written by business commentator Sathnam Sanghera. Read More... Posted Feb 15 2010, 08:50 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: hr policy and strategy, HR, hr roles and responsibilities, sanghera

• Delaying a difficult conversation?

  Line managers who keep putting off that difficult conversation, in the hope that the issue that has been dragging on will just go away, could be creating further problems for themselves. Read More... Posted Feb 12 2010, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: hr policy and strategy, communication

• Don't slip up on D&G procedures

  The statutory maximum unfair dismissal compensation award from 1 February 2010 is £65,300 - a high price to pay for not following a disciplinary procedure deemed to be fair and reasonable. In Metrobus Ltd v Cook (EAT/0490/06) the Employment Appeal Tribunal... Posted Feb 09 2010, 03:51 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: employee rights, terms and conditions, employee relations, grievances, disciplinary procedures, hr policy and strategy, research, compensation

• Benchmarking HR costs in 2010: Every penny counts

  Every penny counts for HR practitioners in the current economic context faltering profitability for many organisations and weak overall economic growth. And so, as I tell Jeya Thiruchelvam in this week's XpertHR Podcast, benchmarking employment practices... Posted Feb 05 2010, 09:50 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: xperthr, benchmarking, hr policy and strategy, hr budgets, recession, podcast, HR 2.0, hr roles and responsibilities

• 2010 general election: What will it mean for HR?

  The 2010 general election is fast approaching, although the exact date is still not yet known. But what is certain is that its outcome will have major implications for the world of work and consequently for the work of HR professionals - no matter which... Posted Feb 02 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: public sector, general election, hr policy and strategy, hr policy

• Top 10 HR questions - January 2010

  There's no surprise what the most popular HR question has been this month (note the restraint there in resisting the obvious "snow surprise" pun). Whether or not employers have to pay employees who can't get to work because of the snow... Posted Feb 01 2010, 09:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: redundancy, hr policy and strategy, fixed-term contracts, temperature, snow, HR questions

• IRS conference on HR outsourcing - 11 March 2010

  HR outsourcing is on the increase, with around 50% of private sector organisations and a quarter of public sector organisations now choosing this option. But have HR professionals really got to grips with the outsourcing process and what it can achieve... Posted Jan 28 2010, 08:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: hr policy and strategy, business practices, HR, outsourcing

• Employee engagement saves lives in the NHS

  I once spent eight days as a patient in an NHS hospital. When the consultant in charge of the ward eventually came round to see me with his entourage I tried to join in the conversation. There was an awkward silence and then he turned back to his clipboard... Posted Jan 21 2010, 02:56 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: hr policy and strategy, absence management, nhs, absence, occupational health, employee engagement, HR, Boorman review, NHS Plus

• Talking benchmarking: Catch the latest XpertHR podcast

  If you've not yet lent it an ear, XpertHR's Weekly podcast provides an excellent, thoroughly enjoyable and completely free weekly digest of key HR and employment issues. The current edition includes an introduction to the newly launched XpertHR... Posted Jan 20 2010, 07:15 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: xperthr, information sources, benchmarking, hr policy and strategy, podcast

• XpertHR benchmarking is now open for business!

  I'm delighted to announce that XpertHR's new benchmarking service (subscription required) has been launched today (Thursday 14 January 2010). This is a major enhancement to XpertHR, providing our subscribers with the opportunity to access a huge... Posted Jan 14 2010, 10:50 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: xperthr, information sources, benchmarking, hr policy and strategy, irs surveys, irs, HR 2.0

• Dispatches from the social recruiting frontlines

  The rise of online recruitment methods over the past decade has resulted in a completely transformed recruitment landscape with social recruiting at its centre as we enter 2010, according to a fascinating blog post from recruitment consultant Andy Headworth... Posted Jan 11 2010, 07:30 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence Filed under: recruitment, twitter, linkedin, hr policy and strategy, social networking, social media, HR 2.0