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• Law firm Speechly Bircham has appointed Heather McNeice as a solicitor in its employment practice. She joins from Linklaters where she started as a trainee in 1990. She has …
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• A study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that more than a quarter of staff believe their promotion prospects are worse than five years ago. The study, Job …
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• A report by the Industrial Society on how pay negotiations are carried out has found that most respondents negotiate managers’ pay on an individual basis. For professional/technical staff the …
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• The results of the 1999 pay and working time survey reflect the answers of senior managers in 212 organisations reporting on a workforce of more than 427,000. According to …
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Philip Whiteley looks at the prospects for success of Chancellor Gordon Brown’s attempt to match the million people without a job to a million job vacancies It is a personnel …
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Surrey County Council, Procter & Gamble, PricewaterhouseCoopers The public sector has a good record for working flexible hours with "flexitime" operating in organisations in both central and local government. In …
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The Web can bring flexibility to the office, opening up new possibilities. But beware of its dangerous side The power of the Internet can no longer be ignored in the …
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Globalisation, the changing nature of work and the 24-hour economy means that new ways of working will become an imperative of successful business life. And while flexible working is not …
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Flexibility is not just a buzzword of the new millennium – the UK’s most talented, experienced employees want it and companies want the UK’s most talented, experienced workforce. But your …
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This week’s guru column • There always seems to someone in the office who has a bit of personal problem, be it bad manners, bad breath or plain old BO. …
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This week’s training news in brief • Skills shortages are posing a serious threat to the expansion of the Internet, according to the Data Networking Association (DNA). Officially launched by …
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There is not much which angers me more when trying to do my job than bureaucracy and the wasted effort that so often accompanies it. In the past few years …
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Employers should take an overview of sex bias claims, not treat comments in isolation, appeal tribunal rules When does sexual banter amount to sex discrimination? This issue is revisited by …
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As well as being legally proficient, HR professionals need to be able confidently to conduct negotiations over terminations in a way which minimises the exposure of the employer to legal …
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This week’s case round up Wilson v Ethicon, IDS Brief 655, EAT • Wilson was suspended for gross misconduct after failing to carry out a required testing procedure on the …