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Nine out of 10 HR managers are certain that they pay their male and female staff fairly but this confidence is often misplaced, the Equal Opportunities Commission has said. Early …
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The Commission for Racial Equality has launched a formal investigation into racial discrimination in the prison service after revelations that an employee at Brixton prison was racially harassed. Brixton is …
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Organisations responding to the review of the tribunal system want more costs to be awarded against companies found to be unfairly dismissing staff. The consultation exercise, carried out by the …
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Local government personnel chiefs are leading a joint action team of employers and government officials to tackle age discrimination in the workplace. The Society of Chief Personnel Officers in Local …
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The Industrial Society and the TUC have published their own set of guidelines on sending and receiving e-mails at work and called on employers to draw up an e-mail code …
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The Civil Service has worked with the national work-life balance charity New Ways to Work to research how senior staff who work reduced hours balance having small children and a …
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A national "nursing bank" has been welcomed by healthcare HR managers as a way of saving money and improving the quality of agency staff. Prime Minister Tony Blair has unveiled …
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Brent Council Call Centre has bucked the trend for high turnover of call centre staff in local government by offering jobs with variety and challenge. According to the IRS report …
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Employing leaders who are individualists and strategists has been key to the recovery of Kent County Council. Two years ago, the council was struggling with debt and adverse publicity. Mike …
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The CRE will consult business leaders to decide on changes to its Leadership Challenge initiative. The initiative encourages leaders to adopt personal and company plans to promote the business case …
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After many years leading the way on diversity issues, the public sector is now lagging behind the private sector, according to a leading HR practitioner.Speaking at a conference last week, …
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Marks and Spencer’s head of corporate personnel Pat Taylor is to go back to the shop floor along with 2,000 head office volunteers over the Christmas period. The move is …
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Employers without systems in place to tackle employee stress are breaking the law, delegates at a conference heard last week.Dr Stuart Bristow of the Health and Safety Commission warned delegates, …
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Companies need to recruit more staff with language skills in order to set up foreign language versions of their web sites, a multilingual project management company has warned.Image Partnership says …
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The Recruitment and Employment Confederation is to run two one-day training courses in Belfast on telephone sales and interviewing techniques. They are aimed at those new to recruitment or who …