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Nearly half of the UK’s employers are using the Internet to recruit staff, according to the fourth annual recruitment survey by the IPD.The survey of 262 recruiters, published last week, …

Employers’ failure to accommodate caring responsibilities of staff is a major cause of absence, research has found.Lack of workplace flexibility is forcing staff to take time off “sick” to look …

Teams from a top consultancy firm took part in a weekend of tribal revelry which promoted collaborative working in Castleton.Personnel Today 1999 award winners Bacon and Woodrow staged the event …

HR should act to end the perception that it has failed to rise to the knowledge management challenge.That is the message of research revealed exclusively to Personnel Today this week …

HR professionals in organisations facing takeovers should warn senior managers that neglecting staff is a business risk, according to a leading practitioner.Carol Bode, group HR development manager at the AA, …

A member of the Scottish Parliament is calling for a health and safety working party to be set up in the wake of research showing staff are twice as likely …

Private medical cover has become a core element in many employee packages and is a significant incentive to individuals as part of the recruitment process. However, there are several legal …

Are British workers cheaper to sack than others? Yes – but not always, reports Stephen OverellIt is because we are quick, easy and cheap to sack”. So said Tony Woodley, …

On a recent trip to Hong Kong I joined a presentation by Prof Bob Garratt’s organisation ODL on executive coaching to senior civil servants grappling with the interface of inherited …

• Equal pay legislation would be more effective if it worked on incentives rather than penalties, nearly eight out of 10 delegates at the legal update session said. They agreed …

Most employers are making an effort to manage sickness absence, IPD research shows.Of companies with more than 2,000 employees, 91 per cent have an absence policy, according to the institute’s …

Johnson Underwood v Montgomery and O&K, unreported, April 2000, EAT• Montgomery was engaged as a temporary, self-employed worker by Johnson Underwood, an employment agency which assigned her to work as …

Gone are the days of the suit and tie – now more employers are implementing a casual dress code. But there are pitfalls as well as pleasures in slipping into …

Absence rates are more likely to fall when HR managers, not line managers, take responsibility for managing absence, research by the CBI has found.The discovery challenges the conventional wisdom that …

This country has double the proportion of adults with the lowest level of basic skills compared with counties such as Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. Just over a half of …