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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 …
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Fifty-six per cent of companies in central London with over 200 employees use on-line learning as a training method, according to a survey of 1,200 businesses in the capital. The …
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A constant feature of each government’s “to do” list is a review of the tribunal system. Such initiatives have led, in the recent past, to the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) …
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Employers would do well to read the EOC Code of Practice before embarking on alternative methods of recruitment. When the man who sits at the top of the UK’s legal …
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QWe took on a contractor, with fees payable to his personal company. Over the years, the agreement was renewed ad hoc. We now pay holiday allowance, sick pay and overtime …
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Unfair selection process not discriminatory British Gas Trading v Clark, EAT, unreported, 15 November 2000 Clarke worked as a customer sales adviser but subsequently applied for the position of assistant …
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With the number of high-profile security disasters increasing, it is imperative that human resources departments run the appropriate systems to keep the good guys in and the baddies out …
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Michele Bignami guides us through the steps required for lawful dismissal under Italian law, and warns of the financial penalties that may result if the correct procedures are not followed, …
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Marion Crowcombe has joined Wokingham e-business technology company Logsys Solutions as personnel manager. A member of the CIPD, Crowcombe has eight years’ experience in personnel. She spent two years with …
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Simon Hill has recently taken over as HR manager for the scientific instrument company, Leica Microsystems. He is responsible for three Cambridge-based companies in the group, specialising in image analysis …