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Every British company with a stock market quotation is suffering an acute tension between two conflicting aims. There is the demand from the stock market to deliver ever higher financial …
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Middle managers in France have taken their complaints about the legislation introducing a 35-hour week to the European Court of Human Rights. If successful the TUC has indicated it may …
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• Nearly three-quarters of major US firms (73.5 per cent) record and review employee communications and activities on the job, including their phone calls, e-mail, Internet connections, and computer files, …
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• In 1986, the work rosters of Spence and his colleagues were reorganised so that their contractual working hours were 39 hours a week with six hours’ overtime made available. …
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Employers face hefty fines for not following a proper disciplinary procedure, so they need to get it right When employers lose unfair dismissal cases arising from staff misconduct, it is …
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For employers, direct sex and race discrimination is defined as less favourable treatment to an employee on the ground of their race or sex. Employers could be forgiven for thinking, …
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The UK technology benchmark, techMARK 100, continued its recovery last week and gave many investors something to smile about alter the recent heavy falls in the sector. Same of the …
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Employers and recruiters have welcomed government plans to offer fast-track work permits to overseas staff in industries suffering skills shortages. The new arrangement, being pushed forward by the DfEE, is …
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Many HR and recruitment professionals believe traditional character references to be inaccurate, according to a study carried out by NOP for the Association of Search and Selection Consultants. Despite …
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Universities should make their courses more flexible to allow students to carry on studying while they are in work, employment minister Malcolm Wicks has said. Speaking to the Universities’ Association …
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Business success is reliant on leaders gaining a philosophical edge to foster good staff relations, argues Jo Parker With the “balance of power” set to swing back towards employees, courtesy …
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The Government’s proposals on trade union recognition are in danger of hauling employment relations back to the dark ages of the 1970s when the emphasis was on confrontation, engineering employers …
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An Edinburgh-based company is allowing recruits to work from anywhere in the world in a bid to secure the talent it needs to expand. Telecoms software provider KSCL wants to …
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Staff are increasingly throwing as many allegations as they can at employers to give them the best chance of winning in tribunals. Statistics released last week by conciliation service Acas …
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All younger managers are interested in working from home and half want to retire early, according to an attitudes survey carried out by Management Today. Out of 18- to 34-year-old …