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Staff at the Royal London Hospital have doubled the number of childcare places available to them in a purpose-built workplace nursery.The nursery cares for the children – aged from three …
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The director general of the Institute of Management has claimed HR managers are key to maintaining competitiveness in the new business age.Mary Chapman said HR departments are essential to the …
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Benchmarking and best practice should be abandoned because they are stifling creativity in industry, according to knowledge management expert David Taylor.Taylor called on HR departments to abandon best practice policies …
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The number of working women with a child under the age of five has nearly doubled in 25 years.Latest Government figures show that in 1973 only 27 per cent of …
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A leading consultant is warning employers to tackle workforce stress or risk future legal claims from staff accusing them of shortening their life expectancy.Michael Reddy, chairman of Independent Counselling and …
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Four of the new economy stocks that rolled into the FTSE100 three months ago have suffered the indignity of being rolled off the index. The technology, media and telecoms (TMT) …
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• Nick Kelly has joined consultancy group Performance Dynamics. The company specialises in providing internal consultancy skills to in-house HR professionals who manage outsourced contracts. Kelly was previously a Price …
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Originally joining the company as a secretary, she has since found her way into an influential HR role. Gray has previously worked in recruitment and in the HR department for …
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2000 Disability manager1998 HR for Group Treasury1994 Recruitment coordinator
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Union Recognition: the essential guideIn the absence of clear guidance on compulsory trade union recognition from the Government, Personnel Today and legal firm Wragge & Co have teamed up to …
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Today’s service culture puts new demands on frontline staff. Jane Lewis looks at how companies can deliver to customers without employees behaving like cardboard cut-outs at homeSometime during the course …
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The CBI Employment Trends Survey 2000 found 88 per cent of employers have introduced at least one initiative aimed at allowing staff to work flexibly.Of those questioned, 51 per cent …
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When questioned about unions in their own organisations, however, the proportion dropped to 16 per cent.At national level, just over a quarter said management had a confrontational attitude, compared with …
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The number of employers with regulations over when annual leave can be taken has steadily dropped since 1989. In 1992 the figure was 60 per cent, falling to 51 per …
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Britain may be divided on the euro, but it has a more flexible labour market than other countries. Philip Whiteley reports on pan-European employment opportunitiesIt is a paradox seldom commented …