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This week’s news in brief CIA and FBI interest Applications to join the CIA and FBI have rocketed since last month’s terrorist attacks. Last week the CIA received more than …
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Over a third of US-based HR professionals believe that business travel will be reduced in the wake of last month’s terrorist attacks. In a poll of 5,673 HR staff, conducted …
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Tesco has launched one of the UK’s biggest retail careers websites to help it fill over 20,000 vacancies this year. The supermarket giant has taken its recruitment process online as …
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Plans to overcome NHS skills shortages through the use of a skills escalator were outlined at the AHHRM’s national conference. Andrew Foster, the NHS’ director of HR, told delegates this …
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The NHS is to launch a new £300m payroll system that will provide HR professionals with information on sickness absence, overtime and staff training across the healthcare service. Andrew Foster, …
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The public and private sectors must work together more closely if the health service is to overcome its chronic staffing problems, delegates at the AHHRM conference were told. Norman Niven, …
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A pilot scheme has been launch-ed to enable NHS staff to specialise in the treatment of a particular condition and help avoid a "parade of faces" scenario for patients. Julie …
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Dr Augustine Stevens is an example of why the Government needs to act to make it easier for refugees to find employment in the UK. He is a former Minister …
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As global recession takes hold – fuelled by the terrorist attacks in the US – three HR directors pass on the lessons they have learnt in times of downsizing
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This week’s news in brief A million take up ILAs New research from the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) reveals that Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs) have been taken up …
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Russian employees and the country’s unemployed are to be given access to online learning following a deal between learning technology provider Click2learn and the Russian system integration specialists CSS. The …
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Morag Fox joins BCA as HR director Despite the pressure of a busy life in HR, and not having as much time to read as she would like, Morag Fox …
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I have two years of recruitment consultancy experience, and am a trained primary teacher. I have delivered training before – though not formally. I run a simple sales training course …
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It seems that every year is hailed as a "busy year for employment law" and this is no exception. HR teams should all have an agenda for strategic issues to …
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This weeks case roundup National Minimum Wage payable Wright v Scottbridge Construction, IRLR 589,EAT Wright, a night watchman, worked seven nights a week between 5pm and 7am. Although he performed …