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• UK-based business partnership organisation Business Link Wiltshire and Swindon has carried out training for 18 business counsellors in Kenya to enable them to be NVQ level assessors. Charlotte Mannion, …

Employees will have to pay to take their employers to tribunal if they are deemed to have a weak case, it has emerged.Personnel Today has learnt that DTI plans to …

Too many teenagers are being pushed into doing A-levels because of the “second-class” status of vocational qualifications, the CBI has warned.Launching a survey on modern apprenticeships, the CBI’s director of …

Ineffective use of IT due to lack of training is costing organisations millions, according to a new book.Learning to Succeed in Business with Information Technology argues that the majority of …

Union recognition is back on the agenda and heading your way in less than a month. The hardy perennial of industrial relations is set to raise its head once more …

Scottish Equitable, a Dutch-owned, Edinburgh-based pension and life assurance company, is actively encouraging the over-40s to apply for 100 new customer services posts.The company already employs 3,000 staff at its …

Occupational health specialist Ethos has won a government grant to conduct a survey into the causes and prevention of back pain in the workplace. The Oxfordshire-based firm is to run …

The Halifax bank is to promote efforts to boost representation of ethnic minority staff with a series of equal opportunities road-shows. A similar initiative developed in 1999 saw the proportion …

A landmark £12m equal pay settlement won by a group of female speech and language therapists has been described as a “wake-up call” for employers.The women, backed by the MSF …

Employers in the South East are in danger of losing their business and staff to European firms unless they improve their competitiveness, a study has found.The region, which covers London …

Companies that work with union representatives to overcome safety issues at work can cut accident rates by up to 50 per cent, the GMB has claimed.The union has been working …

Public-sector bodies are struggling to find staff with the experience to take on major projects because they have lost their older workers in redundancy drives.Research carried out by local authority …

The boards and top teams of major organisations need developing just as much as the workforce, yet few recognise the need.This was the warning made to senior HR managers by …

• Rod Eddington, the new chief executive of British Airways, will consider the airline’s first-ever compulsory redundancies in an effort to cut capacity and costs. BA has also received approaches …

Britain lags well behind other European countries in maternity pay and accommodating new mothers at work, Byers told the conference. Referring to research carried out by the DTI, he said …