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Public-sector personnel chiefs have hit back at a central government crackdown on sickness retirement, saying Whitehall is to blame if staff retired early.A report from the Treasury last week said …
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• David Coats, TUC head of economic and social affairs, said, “Partnership depends on the leadership of a few key individuals who are willing to take risks and abandon accepted …
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Lew Swift, HR director, Aintree Hospital Trust• “I don’t think the Government is trying to brand people as skivers. I think it is trying to cut down on the enormous …
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Partnership agreements have been so successful at BOC Edwards that it appears management cannot keep pace with the demand to introduce them.Head of human resources Stephen Gaskell said other plants …
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A partnership came close to breakdown at utility company Hyder after it had to make 1,000 staff redundant, head of employee relations Colin Thomas told delegates.Faced with a range of …
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The New Deal can be counted a moderate success, an independent review has found, as political arguments raged last week about the cost of the programme.While only 13 per cent …
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International telecoms consultancy Netcom must pay nearly £295,000 in compensation to an accountant it sacked for revealing expense fiddles by the chief executive.Only the second award made so far under …
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Despite almost two years of the Working Time directive, many professionals expect their working hours to increase over the next year, according to a survey.A third of professionals in HR, …
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• Alison Muir has been appointed HR manager at Chardon Group after spending seven years with De Vere Hotels. Muir’s responsibilities will include the development of HR policies and procedures …
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What is the most important lesson you have learnt in your career?From the early stages of my career I had to remind myself to not let managing directors and senior …
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HR practitioners can foster loyalty by encouraging mobility among staff, and should stop worrying that if they train them well they risk losing them.In her new report published this week. …
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Vodafone AirTouch, the mobile telephone giant and one of the 10 largest companies in the world, received a clear message from its shareholders last week about the award of a …
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• A specialist training centre for improving competitiveness in the glass industry has been opened in Sheffield. Set up by the Glass NTO with £400,000 backing from regional development organisation …
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According to the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, the average job tenure in 1984 was five years although this dropped to a low of four years and six months in …
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After Britain, the longest hours are worked by employees in Portugal (41.2), Belgium (40.9) and Spain (40.6), according to the Eurostat Yearbook. Italy has the shortest average working week, followed …