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Peoplesoft’s UK product strategy manager has questioned current Internet HR strategies and urged employers to tailor strategy to the individual employee.At today’s HR conference on self-service organised by IIR in …
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A heavy-handed approach to managing sick leave leads to an increase in days lost through illness, an occupational health expert has claimed.Dr Mike Orton, formerly an occupational health doctor for …
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Alcatel Telecom’s HR strategy manager has urged other employers to use a flexible benefits system to retain staff and reduce costs.Flex is a benefits system in which an employee’s salary …
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Barclays intends to move to a web-based HR self-service system in a bid to cut costs.Its model is based on SAP technology and intended to reduce costs 35 per cent. …
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The UK still lags behind other European countries in the use of intranet and Internet for self-service HR, according to a benchmarking survey by PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PWC). Speaking at the …
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In the competition to find and hire the best people, online recruiting has emerged as a powerful and strategic tool – and its potential is only beginning to be realized. …
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Employers have dismissed proposals outlined by the Government last week to offer all parents the option of part-time working. Ministers suggest in a Green Paper that both parents should have …
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The Personnel Today portfolio is expanding globally, having acquired the publishing rights to the bi-monthly magazine HR World last week. Our aim is to relaunch the publication in the New …
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The Government needs to address how it can employ more disabled people in its own workforce, Prime Minister Tony Blair says today in an exclusive article for Personnel Today. As …
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A rail company has brokered a pay agreement which is set to be a benchmark for the sector. Great North Eastern Railway has negotiated a deal with drivers’ union Aslef …
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UK employers can breathe a sigh of relief after ministers agreed at the Nice Summit of the European Council that there will be no extension to employment legislation. While the …
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Judges from the HR and advertising world this week studied the entries in the annual Recruitment Advertising Awards. Reed Business Information, publisher of Personnel Today, runs the awards, which are …
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The Green Paper on work and parents might have been well trailed in the media in recent months, but there are still some real shocks in the document published last …
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Employers tot up leave costs Alarm bells are ringing over the cost of implementing the Government’s wide-ranging proposals to improve the rights of working parents. According to the Green Paper, …
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New laws to “revitalise” health and safety at work were announced in the Queen’s Speech, but plans to introduce a new offence of corporate killing were not included. The measures …