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Two thirds of employers have experienced a serious incident such as hacking, virus attack or credit card fraud in the last year according to a survey on cybercrime. The Cybercrime …
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Volkswagen will employ 50,000 long-term unemployed Germans on the condition that they work for free if production falls behind schedule. The new staff member will earn less and have more …
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Hundreds of civil servants may be in line for a 50 per cent pay rise in a bid by the Government to narrow the pay gap with the private sector. …
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The threat of recession and falls in inflation are forcing UK employers to squeeze pay awards, according to research by pay analysts Industrial Relation Services (IRS). The figures show that …
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Call centre salaries are on the increase according to a survey by the Hay Group consultancy. Managers of the UK’s larger call centres have seen their salaries increase by more …
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Britain’s top executives enjoyed pay rises of 28 per cent last year, six times more than the average wage increase. More than 140 executives at FTSE 100 companies took home …
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Ninety per cent of people who claimed successfully for sexual harassment at employment tribunal had resigned or lost their jobs as a result of the harassment, according to an EOC …
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More than half of the staff that have switched to a 35-hour week in France believe it has improved their lives, according to research by the French ministry of labour …
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One third of UK directors are women, according to a report from global information provider Equifax. Women are also getting to the boardroom faster than men and now account for …
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Companies that have an IT director on the board take their IT strategy more seriously according to a new survey from the UK’s National Computing Centre. The survey of 1,246 …
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The Japanese electronics giant Toshiba is to shed 18,800 jobs due to the slump in the global semiconductor market. Nearly all the job cuts will be made in Japan, where …
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I am a student and deeply interested in HR, but I don’t know how to go about gaining work experience. Can you help? Margaret Malpas, joint managing director, Malpas Flexible …
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The failure to retain teachers has led to the worst shortages in schools for 36 years, Ofsted chief Mike Tomlinson has claimed. Four in ten teachers now leave the profession …
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Nine large companies are to perform gender employment assessments of their workforce in response to work being carried out by the Government’s Kingsmill Review. The organisations, which have worked with …
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Nine out of ten bosses offer their staff some form of flexible according to a survey by the Industrial Society. The Industrial Society’s poll of more than 500 HR professionals …