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By Lance Richards
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Businesses are turning increasingly to spiritual guidance, so you may feel it’s time to gen up on some genuine philosophical gurus. Here are a few to start you off on …
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Staff turnover at food retailer Pret à Manger fell by 30 per cent last year due to a new culture of innovation in the company. Head of HR Bruce Robertson …
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This week’s case roundup Determining employment status Reid v North West Ceilings, unreported, April 2001, EAT Reid worked exclusively for NWC on a self-employed basis as a supervisor and shopfitter …
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A large scale pay dispute is looming in the West End after theatre bosses threatened to pull out of pay talks with broadcasting union BECTU. The Society of London Theatre …
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A privacy at work conference is to be held next month to try and resolve on-going confusion over the data protection code. The privacy at work section of the code …
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The Prison Service has unveiled tough new measures to reduce high levels of staff sickness. A new formula is being used to assess absence records, which multiplies the frequency of …
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The TUC has launched a weekly health and safety e-bulletin. It is open to anyone who registers on the TUC website and is called Risk. It launched coincided with the …
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Business confidence among small and medium sized manufacturers in the UK has fallen dramatically since the beginning of the year. The balance of businesses that felt optimistic about their prospects …
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The Government has accepted that more needs to be done to advance the business case for age diversity in the workplace. In a response to a report on age discrimination …
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The CBI is calling on the next Government to promote lifelong learning and improve business links with education. In its manifesto for business, the CBI has claimed that the next …
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More than a third of UK managers believe their companies would provide a home computer with Internet access for employees if they were encouraged by a Government backed scheme or …
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The majority of company directors prefer to be contacted by letter rather than e-mails, according to research. A survey by marketing recruitment company Stopgap reveals nearly 60 per cent of …
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An opinion by the ECJ’s advocate-general suggests that non-mobile workers in the transport sector are also exempt from the Working Time Directive. The employer in the UK test case of …
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The Commission for Racial Equality has postponed the public hearing of its formal investigation into allegations of racial discrimination in the prison service. Originally scheduled for 14 May 2001, the …