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Nearly three in 10 HR practitioners have spent half their time in the past 12 months struggling to interpret the raft of employment legislation. And up to half of them …

Young people in Scotland are rejecting traditional apprenticeships in favour of careers in the financial sector.According to the general manager of the Construction Industry Training Board in Scotland, Douglas Fergus, …

HR outsourcing is on the increase but companies are failing to reap the full benefits because they are not tying it to business strategy, a major report has found.Four out …

Public-sector HR chiefs were right to attack the Treasury report on ill-health retirement last week. Terry Gorman, president of the local government personnel directors’ body Socpo, reacted with fury when …

Nearly half of senior executives who move into a new role feel inadequately prepared for it.The lack of preparation led to unfulfilled expectations, a hankering for their old role and …

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 …

• 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

• 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 …

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 …