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This week’s training news Construction industry acts to solve skills crisis The Construction Industry Training Body is publishing a five-year workforce planning brief to combat the skills crisis in the …
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This week’s international news Telecoms giant cuts losses by losing staff The telecoms giant Lucent, formerly known as AT&T International, is axing 10 per cent of its employees after revealing …
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Recruitment and retention are the buzzwords as the war for talent continues. So what are managers and trainers doing about it, asks Karen Higginbottom Yet again research has highlighted the …
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Recruitment site aimed at over-50s hopes to beat age bias by showing employers that older people are keeping up with the latest technology HR departments committed to an age diversity …
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Not the most attractive site on the Web but then employment law is not there to be alluring. This definitive guide to employment law cuts straight to the facts and …
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This week’s e-biz in brief Database makes it an even smaller world Global relocation site Directmoving.com has extended its services to include: travel health insurance, via an agreement with Securus …
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This week’s jargon buster The digerati The digital or new media elite ñ Last Minute’s founders Martha Lane Fox and Brett Hoberman are examples. U-turn effect When employees leave a …
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Edwards, a teacher, had frequent sickness-related absences from work which included a four-month absence when he was suffering from work-related stress and depression. He returned to work for a few …
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Abadeh, a telephone operator, suffered permanent hearing loss and tinnitus in his left ear after receiving a sudden, high-pitched noise through his headset. He also developed post traumatic stress disorder. …
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The tide of family friendly policies continues. The Government has recently issued a Green Paper, Work & Parents Competitiveness and Choice, with consultation proposals on "getting a proper balance between …
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The Court of Appeal’s ruling to reverse its decision on notice payments may have tax implications for Pilons It often suits companies to dismiss an employee without giving the full …
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High-profile monitoring issue must be handled with care by employers HR managers are finding the disciplinary fall-out from monitoring staff e-mails and Internet use at work an extremely contentious area …
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This week’s letters Promoting the UK as it is in reality Far from believing "our workforce is diverse enough," as you quote me in "BBC HR team defends record on …
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And another one bites the dust. According to a recent Cranfield School of Management flyer, research commissioned by KPMG suggested that 70 per cent of "balanced scorecard initiatives" fail. They …
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Office politics has a bad name but you ignore it at your peril. Jane Lewis reports on the latest thinking on how to play the power game and win The …