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A dream or a nightmare? Everybody in your hard-won and carefully nurtured HR team has been poached by a jealous rival. Not only that, but they are all locked into …
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Landmark Scottish case supports right of homosexuals to complain of unfavourable treatment by employers. In a ground-breaking decision, the Scottish EAT in MacDonald v Ministry of Defence (2000) has ruled …
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The power to put a senior executive or a highly skilled employee on garden leave is often exercised by employers when such an employee resigns or is dismissed. Not only …
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Failure to register under the Data Protection Act and adopt a data protection policy can land a firm in trouble. Although the Data Protection Act 1998 came into force on …
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Davies & others v M J Wyatt (Decorators)`, IDS Brief 670, EATDavies was originally classed as self-employed by MJW and received no paid holidays, but this changed when he became …
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To allow "at risk" employees to start outplacement programmes during the transition phase makes their prospects less intimidatingWhen I moved from an in-house HR job to a career consultancy I …
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So staff loyalty is "practically zero", according to Malpas (24 October). People of my generation (left school in late 1970s) have been through two recessions, been told that we cannot …
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We are all aware of the e-commerce frenzy which, true to form for the IT industry, over-promises and under-delivers. Remember, the paperless office promise years ago. Worse still, Amazon.com is …
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Jim Hare has been appointed HR director of pensions and life assurance specialist Winterthur Life. Hare’s goal in the post is to create a culture of open communications across the …
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Kim Birnie has been appointed Tesco’s first director of learning after a 13-year career in HR. She joins from crisp manufacturer Frito Lay and has been head of HR at …
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EC president Romano Prodi has promised to cut bureaucracy to make European laws more accessible.Prodi told delegates at the CBI conference in Birmingham this morning that they should expect the …
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Director general of the BBC Greg Dyke has pledged to move industrial relations reporting up the BBC news agenda. Speaking at the CBI annual conference in Birmingham this morning, Dyke …
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An emergency scheme spearheaded by supermarket giant Safeway’s HR department will allow key employees to continue working in the event of another petrol crisis.Safeway HR controller Maureen Hooper said the …
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Figures published by the Health and Safety Executive show that two manslaughter prosecutions, brought before the Crown Prosecution Service last year, led to convictions.Details of the successful cases, which concerned …
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An employee’s tendency to drink may not be reason enough to sack him or her, a lawyer specialising in HR has claimed.Alan Jones, HR partner at law firm DLA, come …