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This week’s guru Old Bill becomes sick bill – and HR cops it Compensation culture is no joking matter, with the Ministry of Defence facing a £97m bill last year. …
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Although the number of equal opportunities claims (sex, race and disability discrimination) are statistically fewer than those for unfair dismissal and for unlawful deduction of wages, most employers who have …
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Employers owe employees a contractual duty when providing a reference or else they could find themselves the subject of a claim
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This week’s e-biz news in brief Latin American link-up Relocation site Directmoving.com has announced a partnership with LatPro, an employment site for bilingual Spanish and Portuguese-speaking professionals in the Americas. …
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Forget the old combative talk, we should now be trying to develop co-operative recruiting relationships
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recruitment JobQ uses technology to put forward only the best candidates for jobs
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Continuing our regular series spelling out the implications of important cases which
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Shropshire County Council was right to dismiss a residential social worker after she appeared in a pornographic magazine, an employment tribunal found last week. Social worker Fleur Maidment was working …
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Having been born in the second world war, development centres have become stuck in a time warp,
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This week’s news in brief DLA-MCG talk merger Law firm DLA and the MCG Consulting Group have announced that they are in talks to integrate their businesses. The two companies …
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A convicted murderer has taken the Scottish Prison Service to an employment tribunal to demand greater rights for inmates working in Scotland’s prisons. Philip Garden, who was an employment specialist …
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A change in government policy that means funding is no longer available for work-based training for refugees has been slammed by the Refugee Council. Training bodies had been able to …
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Internal communications are playing a vital role in driving forward a massive reform programme at the European Commission, following allegations of mismanagement and fraud during the 1999 scandal. Staff are …
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Virtual secretaries could revolutionise the way that ICL staff work, following the results of an internal pilot scheme. The Personal Virtual Assistant technology enables mobile workers to access messages, organise …
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Natasha Hanson joins Medlock Communications Natasha Hanson has two males in her life – one she married in a seven-minute ceremony in Las Vegas, the other is her dog, a …