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Paul Kearns is clearly no fan of the CIPD (Comment, 13 March 2001). According to him, the institute lacks the respect of government and business. It disregards its customers. Its …
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Telecoms giant Ericsson is to cut 1,200 jobs in the UK and a further 2,100 jobs in Sweden in a bid to cut costs. In a separate development Nokia announced …
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Half of all European employers are using information and communications technologies to perform work at a distance, according to research by the Institute for Employment Studies. It means that 27 …
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The Personnel Today Awards 2001 are launched today, with new sponsors and categories to take the competition into its third year. The event is the top annual celebration of the …
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The High Court has referred on a union’s challenge to the validity of one of the Working Time regulations. The latest chapter in the Working Time regulations’ short history is …
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On 9 March the Government issued a consultation paper and draft regulations detailing its proposals for new statutory protection for fixed-term employees. The consultation is due to finish on 31 …
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Care homes have accused the NHS of poaching its nurses as they struggle to match the pay rises for hospital staff. Many have recruited elusive nursing staff from overseas, only …
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The HR director at the hub of the foot-and-mouth crisis is playing a vital role in recruiting and managing an army of vets in the nationwide fight against the outbreak. …
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To help companies understand how the workplace is evolving, and so plan for the future, Cubiks, the specialist HR consultancy in the PAGroup, is inviting PersonnelToday.com’s readers to take part …
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Enter into an alliance with an e-learning provider as carefully as you would enter into a marriage. That’s the advice Siemens’ performance development manager Tony Smailes gives to John Robinson. …
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As if the department didn’t have enough to keep it occupied, HR’s central role as "the conscience of an organisation" means it always has to be there to troubleshoot the …
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Roselyn Sands, of Paris law firm Proskauer Rose, examines the strict rules that French employers have to comply with before they can end an employee’s contract and how legal action …
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Combating skills shortages for the Information age is the title of the e-skills Employers Charter, produced in response to research published by the e-skills NTO, which showed that the skills …
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Utilities companies have had to cancel non-essential maintenance work to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, according to the HR manager at East Midlands Electricity. Dave Newborough told Personnel Today …
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Senior HR professionals from Cadbury Schweppes and Glaxo SmithKline in the US have used Internet recruitment to slash costs and reduce the time taken to fill vacancies from weeks to …