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Companies which publish their corporate values and HR strategy experience more significant growth than those which do not, according to research by Arthur Andersen. There has been an 84 per …
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The Prison Service is resisting pressure from hundreds of prison electricians who are threatening to strike over a name badge rule, which they claim threatens their personal safety. The 600 …
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Thomson Travel Group has announced plans to extend its call centre in Glasgow, which will create hundreds of jobs over the next three years. It will provide customers with the …
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A company’s ability to attract employees is now a more important factor than market share, a senior representative of oil giant BP told an international conference on HR last week. …
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The finance, engineering and production parts of a business are relatively easy to measure and compare. The function and disciplines of HR are, however, built on shifting sands. Tomorrow’s legislation …
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Too many firms unnecessarily expose themselves to damaging publicity during employment tribunals, lawyers warned this week. Alan Jones, human resources partner at law firm DLA, says employers need to take …
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A former operations director of broadcaster ONdigital has told a tribunal that he was unfairly dismissed after complaining about not being paid a bonus. John Egan, 40, told a tribunal …
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A record number of US companies expect to take on extra staff in 2001. A survey by Manpower found 27 per cent of 16,000 employers questioned expect to expand staff …
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HR managers have welcomed a £330m increase in funding for wages in higher education as government recognition of the need to address issues such as equal pay in the sector. …
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A successful retention policy during a takeover bid led to an “excellent set” of year-end results, gases group BOC has said. BOC offered key operational personnel bonus payments to encourage …
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With absenteeism and staff turnover on the increase, the Government is urging businesses to address the issue now for their own benefit, as well as for their employees The …
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It is four years since the Disability Discrimination Act came in, but employers find it a complicated piece of legislation. Five-and-a-half years ago, the then minister for disabled people William …
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5-minutes Q&A Randle Stonier, CEO, Skybridge Group Marketing services consultancy Skybridge, which was formed from the merger of Motivforce and Purchasepoint, has acquired e-learning company, eLearning4all. Here CEO Randle Stonier …
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The world of e-business should soon have a wider choice of top-level domain names (or suffixes, ie .co.uk or .com) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) …
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Need access to figures from the latest skills survey for a report that your boss has asked you to do at the last minute? Not a problem – just download …