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The Training Standards Council has called for a fairer system of funding for the modern apprenticeships schemes, which train 120,000 young people.In a critical report on the presnet system, the …

A scheme designed to help staff achieve a better balance between their home and work lives is to be launched at high-tech companies in Cambridgeshire.Employer Links is inviting human resources …

Few employers have a written policy on romantic relationships between staff, although many believe they harm teamwork.A survey from employment analysts IRS has found most employers choose to tackle the …

HR staff at universities and colleges across the UK face strike action after public sector union Unison called for a ballot of its 60,000 members.The union is protesting against a …

The Government is considering paying “baby bonuses” to employers to encourage them to take on women returning to work after maternity leave.Employers have backed the idea, which is among those …

Health service personnel managers and unions have questioned whether tough NHS performance targets set by the Government can be put into practice.Newly elected president of health service HR managers body …

Motor giant Ford has won a reprieve from an investigation by a government equality watchdog into race discrimination at its Dagenham plant.The Commission for Racial Equality has agreed to Ford’s …

HR professionals took part in a mock employment tribunal at a seminar last week in which speakers Thomas Kibling and Professor Alan Neal acted out the role of witnesses in …

New employees at Internet company Cisco put themselves on the payroll and then order their own mobile phones, business cards and company credit cards in a form of self-service HR.Once …

Family-friendly working is the most overused phrase of the year. At every HR event, speakers and delegates have been eager to drop words like flexible working into the conversation at …

Employers have three months to push for clear rules on monitoring staff e-mails and telephone calls following the publication of a draft code of practice last week.The architect of the …

Employers are supporting a local authority’s decision to demand that smokers make up the time they spend on cigarette breaks.The introduction this month of London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ policy …

Employers were reassured this week that plans to give employees “pensions forecasts” will not overwhelm them with paperwork.The Government is introducing a voluntary scheme next year in which staff will …

A union recognition deal at Eurotunnel signed in June replaced a cavalier management attitude towards involving staff in decision-making, HR director Mark O’Connell told delegates.“What is absolutely clear is that …

Employers must seek out innovative ways of keeping information channels open between staff and management to increase competitiveness and reduce injuries and deaths at work.Health and Safety Commission chairman Bill …