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Car maker Peugeot has averted an all-out strike by staff at its Ryton plant in Coventry, which would halt production of the successful 206, by agreeing to a further three …
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Lottery operator Camelot has found that a flexible approach to working can control labour costs and bring focus to core business activities.Its HR team claims using part-time and agency staff …
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Inflation is spurring higher pay deals this summer with three-quarters of them being struck at 3 per cent or above and 4 per cent set to become the norm by …
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The previous Flexible Working column (Personnel Today, 20 June) discussed running a successful pilot scheme of a flexible working policy by sampling a cross-section of the organisation. You now have …
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Local government is ideally positioned to exploit computer-based training, but is failing to take it forward, according to an e-learning expert.Donald Clark, chief executive of on-line learning company Epic, whose …
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One of Britain’s top high-tech companies is setting up a degree course to grow its own talent after struggling to recruit the people it needs. Microchip design group ARM Holdings …
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• Mike Higgins has been appointed HR director of Wincanton Logistics. An economics graduate from the University of Manchester, Higgins has held positions in all aspects of HR management at …
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1992-1997 Recruitment & training manager for Next 1997-2000 Group personnel manager for FX Corporation May 2000- Head of human resources for Crown Business Communications
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• A project to train former drug addicts to run their own web site design company has been set up in Kingston upon Thames. The scheme is one of five …
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Research by employment analysis firm IRS found that 93 out of 137 organisations use this method to communicate the policy to staff. Some staff used more than one method.The first …
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After friendships (52 per cent), 38 per cent named familiarity with the role as the aspect of their former job they missed.Key business relationships accounted for 31 per cent, while …
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At present only 2.8 per cent of shoppers buy their records on-line with 2.5 per cent buying books this way. But within five years increases to 13.9 per cent and …
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Psychometric tests have become one of HR’s favourite tools for recruitment and development. But what if the tables were turned and the profession had to sit the tests themselves? Jane …
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Despite strict control on labour contracting, Spain has suffered periods of the worst unemployment in Europe. August Toro of Spanish law firm Jausos, Nadal and Vidal de Llobatera, looks at …
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Advice on the use of acid suppressants and proton pump inhibitors will cut indigestion and save the NHS £50m a year, health minister John Denham has announced. The announcement …