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Our continuing series of quick guides to major employment legislation, puts key information at your fingertips and brings you up to date with the latest developments. This week Martin Warren, a partner at Eversheds, examines what effect the provision for compulsory trade union recognition has had in companies under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992

Asda’s Stores of Learning concept earned it the Award for Excellence in Training and the overall winner’s title in the Personnel Today Awards last year. It continues to innovate, and …

Proposed Whitehall reforms could increase the productivity gap, the Industrial Society claims. It says disconnected policy making by government, which would be exacerbated by a new Department of Working Age, …

This week’s training news E-learning improves customer service at the Royal Insurance group Royal & SunAlliance is putting its staff through three customer relationship management programmes in a bid to …

Leading financial employers are backing a scheme to attract hundreds of female undergraduates into the male-dominated City of London. They will host a series of open days throughout June targeted …

This week’s news in brief Be a book reviewer Personnel Today is on the look out for readers who will write book reviews. The reviews will be 300 words long …

Communications company NTL has cut costs dramatically in training staff on data protection through an innovative online learning programme. NTL wanted to reduce the number of breaches of the Data …

EC urges firms to do duty to staff

HR managers are increasingly investing significant amounts of time and effort – as well as pounds or euros – in the development of their workforce. The vast majority of UK …

HR professionals must put forward a strong business case highlighting the benefits of a racially diverse workforce and share their belief in this with their senior executives. The warning came …

HR interims are becoming increasingly important to firms in setting up and driving change programmes, according to joint research launched last week. The survey, carried out by Personnel Today, TMP …

The Shell Open University has registered more than 5,500 staff from a potential 10,000 in its first six months of operation. The international university provides a mix of e-learning, blended …

Whitbread Hotels is introducing a recognition programme to cut its employee turnover rate by 5 per cent. The programme, called Recognition First, is intended to improve staff motivation and will …

Employment levels in the tourist industry will tumble in coming months due to the foot-and-mouth crisis, according to CBI research. The joint CBI and Deloitte & Touche service sector survey …

Skills shortages in the construction industry are threatening to stifle the sector’s growth, according to research. Seventy per cent of respondents to the survey of more than 600 UK-based construction …