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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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• 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 …
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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 …
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DTI Secretary Stephen Byers last week made the strongest suggestion to date that parental leave will become paid, following a review this autumn. Unpaid parental leave of up to 13 …
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More than 50 of the UK’s leading employers monitor staff Internet use by checking web sites visited and around 40 monitor both e-mail and Internet use, according to a study …
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The Government will be in the High Court to defend the way it introduced the parental leave regulations this week.The TUC has enlisted Cherie Booth QC to represent it in …
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The Central Arbitration Committee is planning to hear as many as 150 cases on compulsory trade union recognition in its first year.CAC chairman Sir Michael Burton, giving his first public …
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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, …