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Stress-related illness is forcing UK staff to take 6.5 million days off work a year at a cost of £370m to business. The Health and Safety Executive research shows that …
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The Government was urged by employers to openly debate the issue of flexible retirement as soon as possible, at a conference in London last week. Speaking at the event, minister …
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The EU directive on information and consultation will not transform the way UK companies have to communicate with their workforce, according to the CIPD. Diane Sinclair, CIPD adviser on employee …
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Powergen is offering a home PC and Internet connection to all its 5,000 UK employees and their families. It is investing £2m in the Clicks @ Home programme that will …
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HR is still struggling to be recognised as central to business success, according to research by Internet consultancy Click2learn. Over half of the senior managers surveyed never speak to the …
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Ever since the draft code on data protection appeared last October, HR managers and employers have been up in arms about the draconian rules they face and the difficulty of …
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The Department of Health is investing £300m in an integrated HR and payroll system for the NHS in a bid to increase efficiency. The Government intends to streamline the 30 …
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Specialists in payroll, training and diversity in the US received the best pay rises in HR in 2000, according to research. The joint research by the Society for Human Resource …
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The Central Arbitration Committee spent a million pounds last year but only granted seven statutory union recognition agreements, it was revealed in the organisation’s annual report. It also showed that …
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The difficulty of achieving a healthy work-life balance is adding to employees’ stress levels, according to HR managers. Nearly 70 per cent of respondents to an Industrial Society survey cite …
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This week’s guru A boss who behaves badly is all they want Partaking in management courses is clearly a waste of time. Forget being an inspirational and sensitive leader, your …
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Increasingly, employers are being faced with requests by individuals to work part-time in order to allow them to cater for childcare commitments as well as their careers. Such requests are …
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Why do managers do it, I often wonder? You are sandwiched between a distant, insistent and impatient senior management team and a knowledgeable group of workers, who withhold their co-operation …
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I have been working as an admin assistant in the training department of an NHS trust for 12 months and have reached a dead end. I would like to be …
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The Refugee Council’s CEO Nick Hardwick backs Personnel Today’s Real Asylum Debate campaign and calls for urgent government action