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Unless we adopt a questioning approach to everyday work there can be no improvement. Yet many developments in corporate life and in human resources in particular, come not from a …
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Half of the UK’s employers have found problems recruiting skilled workers in the past six months. Lloyds TSB Commercial’s biannual Business in Britain survey revealed that 50 per cent of …
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The Metropolitan Police artificially boosted the number of non-white officers serving on the force in figures submitted to the Home Office. Figures for visible ethnic minority recruitment were increased after …
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The Department for Education and Employment has called for contributions to its consultation on the future of a national training organisation for the telecoms sector. This follows last November’s announcement …
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American cable news channel CNN announced last week that it is to axe nearly 10 per cent of its workforce. The 400 jobs are believed to from its interactive unit, …
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E –biz: 5-minute Q&A Elly Waldron, 30, is HR manager at eDirectory.co.uk, an e-commerce solutions provider for businesses. Since she joined the Barrow-in-Furness dotcom 12 months ago it has …
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Despite the massive potential of online recruitment the industry needs to take steps to increase consumer confidence to get people to trust the Internet with their personal details, says a …
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If you need access to high-level management thinking and analysis for your next board meeting, this is the place. The Pearson Group, whose web sites to date have been exemplary, …
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Don’t confuse mailing lists with junk e-mail or spam. The former you actively request by signing up for it while the latter lands in your inbox unsolicited. Mailing lists are …
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The definition of the “employee” is now broadening out to encompass the notion of, and give rights to, the “worker” Employment law is abandoning its reliance on employment status …
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Cheesman and others v R Brewer Contracts, unreported, November 2000, EAT In 1998, Brewer took over the contract to maintain Teignbridge council’s rented properties from Onyx. Brewer did not take …
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The new part-timers’ regulations have been in force since 1 July 2000. Very little case law so far has been generated by them. The reason may be that it is …
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Companies which ignore a mother’s need to look after her child may be found to be acting in a discriminatory manner The Government’s Green Paper on work and parents …
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Chancellor Gordon Brown announced a £300m boost for community volunteering earlier this month. The state-of-the-art metallic podium gave way under the considerable political weight of Lord Falconer, minister responsible for …
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Sexual inequality at work is being addressed via legislation, but the EOC believes it is employers who must force the necessary cultural change Twenty-five years on from the Sex …