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UK staff are working the longest hours in Europe and need to be offered more flexible working arrangements, according to a TUC report. The report, Changing Times, criticises the culture …
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Team leaders at Norwich Union Direct call centres are being put through a leadership training programme designed to improve staff retention and performance. So far, 80 team leaders in NUD …
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As the summer holiday season comes to an end, it is now one long haul at work until the Christmas break. This time of year makes staff reassess their working …
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Haulage firms have to revolutionise remuneration, career opportunities and training if a crisis over lorry driver shortages is to be avoided. A Freight Transport Association survey shows that lorry driver …
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BAA Stansted has recruited 70 long-term unemployed people as part of the airport’s strategy to meet its growing staffing needs. The Runway to Work initiative started in January and has …
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Police HR directors have been urged to embrace a new equality project which is hoped will improve the recruitment and retention of women in the force. A report, The Gender …
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Two City firms are paying graduates to defer taking up their jobs, amid fears the economic downturn is hitting home. Accenture has told 400 graduates not to come to work …
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Ladbrokes is approaching its recruitment target of 1,000 new staff to meet expansion plans. The bookmaker has filled two-thirds of its posts in the past six months, ahead of changes …
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This week’s news in brief Manufacturing slump Demand for manufactured goods in the UK and abroad has weakened this year with economic growth looking sluggish, according to the CBI. Its …
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A programme has been launched to train refugee doctors in Scotland to help tackle recruitment problems in the NHS. Thirty-two Glasgow-based refugee and asylum-seeking doctors have started or are about …
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Young women on low pay and who have been in their job for less than a year are the most likely members of staff to fall victim to sexual harassment, …
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London Borough of Lewisham has reduced employee absence by more than four days a year as a result of its attendance management programme. Absence rates have fallen from 13 days …
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East Anglia has the angriest employees in the UK with a third having witnessed "office rage". Research commissioned by HR consultancy Eden Brown shows that overall a quarter of staff …
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HR is the fifth most outsourced function after IT systems and support, according to a survey by law firm Tarlo Lyons. Outsourcing Survey 2001 shows 8 per cent of the …
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Large UK firms are being urged by the Government to sign up to "payroll giving" schemes. Payroll giving enables workers to make charity donations from their gross pay, before tax. …