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Security staff in most risky sector
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Top tips for good course design• Train the job, not the subject, by being clear about the objectives and designing around the specific learning needs of the organisation• Provide plenty …
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Protecting staff privacy, or making firms more vulnerable – how will the Human Rights Act affect us?Monitoring employees’ use of the Internet is always going to be a touchy subject …
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Absence in social services departments is 50 per cent higher than in local government as a whole.Social services staff take an average of 14.6 days sick a year, 6.4 per …
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• A plan to require recipients of unemployment benefit to sign up to individual back-to-work plans has provoked deadlock among the French employers’ organisation MEDEF and five main unions. The …
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A performance-related pay scheme for health staff including community nurses and midwives is “riddled with racism”, according to a survey.The findings will cause concern among health service HR managers already …
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The Disability Rights Commission has defended its rights to force employers to comply with disability discrimination laws despite the public believing education is the best way forward.In a National Opinion …
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A European Court of Justice ruling means female employees who cannot work due to occupational injury will not receive a social security allowance. The ECJ has overturned a claim of …
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The Government is pulling together the strands of its lifelong learning strategy after training experts criticised it for producing an incoherent muddle of bodies and schemes.The remit of Nick Stuart, …
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The market for HR outsourcing is hotting up with two big players announcing their move into the sector last week.BT and Andersen Consulting said they were forming a company to …
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Three out of four personnel staff fail to take their full holiday entitlement and four out of five admit to working while they should be relaxing on days off.Norman Hodges, …
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Claims that the IT revolution has caused Britain to become the hardest-working nation in Europe have been disputed by a senior HR professional.Robert Ingram, HR director at Cap Gemini, hit …
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Paul Robertson-Marriott, HR director of Quebecor UK, claims personnel will have opportunities to implement a culture change in the industry, which he says has not changed since Rupert Murdoch took …
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The CBI warned unions against a return to confrontational relationships with employers last week following the news that strike ballots have more than doubled in the past year.Susan Anderson, the …
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The measures, which come into force on Saturday (1 July), are designed to protect Britain’s 6 million part-time workers. It applies to people such as homeworkers, agency workers and contract …