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The fuel crisis tested HR departments’ emergency staff plans to their limits and threw up worrying legal problems about laying off people without pay.As the struggle to get to work …
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Half the number of disputed union recognition cases taken by employers and unions to the advisory service Acas were settled amicably last year.Before 1998, agreement of full trade union recognition …
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The number of women business and financial professionals has surged by 41,000 in the last three years – a rise of 61 per cent.Companies are also recruiting increasing numbers of …
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Claims that directors’ pay is being pushed up by demand for UK executives in the US are “based entirely on fantasy”, unions claimed this week.The TUC says there is no …
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As problems finding petrol continued last week, local authorities were concentrating on keeping those staff who work with the most vulnerable people in the community mobile.Social workers, care assistants and …
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Employees at some NHS trusts were being told last week that they would have to take annual leave if they could not get into work because of the fuel crisis.Staff …
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Reducing staff reliance on driving to work needs the support of HR professionals, a government best practice guide on travel plans claims.Work travel plans designed to promote walking, cycling, public …
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Flexible work practices benefit recruitment and retention in regional and national government organisations, a senior minister in the Irish government told delegates at Telework 2000.Noel Treacy, minister for science, technology …
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Chief executive of The Industrial Society, Will Hutton, has claimed the oil blockade was an example of the destructive power of networks.Hutton told delegates that the blockade had been caused …
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The Government has urged businesses to follow the example of Scandinavian countries and embrace teleworking.Sweden and Denmark now lead the way in teleworking with more staff working remotely than any …
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School-age children are being targeted through their parents in a recruitment push by travel agent Thomas Cook.The firm took out adverts in the Mail on Sunday earlier this month pitched …
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The Government is being urged to help employers by removing obstacles to flexible retirement for older people who want to continue working.The Employers Forum on Age argues this week that …
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Income lost by women who put their careers on hold to have children has halved since 1980, research by the Cabinet Office shows.In 1980 having two children cost mid-skilled women …
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Employers should think twice before withholding discretionary payments from dismissed staff following the award of £1.3m damages to a former equities trader.In Clark v Nomura International, the bank dismissed the …
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The Health and Safety Commission has backed government proposals to create a new offence of corporate killing. The measure would see directors held individually responsible for fatal accidents if their …