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Scotland’s booming financial services sector is resulting in a widespread shortage of IT professionals according to a leading Scottish recruitment company. Edinburgh-based Melville Craig, whose turnover has grown from £2m …
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The IPD has defended its decision to refuse an HR professional with 30 years’ experience admittance to the institute unless he takes a qualification or goes through a professional assessment. …
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Employers’ poor employee relations will be open to public and media scrutiny following a landmark High Court ruling. A successful legal challenge by campaigning group Public Concern at Work means …
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Employees are failing to take up training opportunities because they have too much work to do and cannot find the time. The IPMS trade union says even when staff do …
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Unions representing staff at Rover’s troubled Longbridge plant say it is unclear if they will push ahead with a legal challenge to BMW over lack of consultation following the failure …
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The Government’s long awaited report into “active ageing” – the question of how to keep older workers in the labour market – throws down some interesting challenges for HR professionals …
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Law firm Eversheds has moved into the HR software market with the first rental product as part of its drive to provide a one-stop shop for the profession. A new …
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Age discrimination could be made illegal if companies fail to grasp the nettle of encouraging age diversity in the workplace. In a high-profile study, commissioned by prime minister Tony Blair, …
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The shift towards a 24-hour society is leading to extended operating hours in an increasing number of organisations, according to a report from Incomes Data Services. IDS says such pressures …
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The push to bring in an offence of corporate killing is gathering pace with a Labour MP launching a campaign to get the legislation on to the statute books. Andrew …
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A third of financial companies are not aware they need to change the way they provide services to the public to comply with legislation outlawing disability discrimination, a survey found. …
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Employers are having trouble getting hold of the long-awaited guidance on the Working Time regulations issued by the DTI at the end of March. As Personnel Today went to press …
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Companies which scan employees’ e-mails to check they do not carry inappropriate or defamatory material could fall foul of the Human Rights Act, legal experts believe. The Act, due to …
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Software giant Microsoft last week granted new stock options to all 34,000 full-time employees, aiming to compensate them for the stock’s 40 per cent dive this year. Analysts said Microsoft’s …
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British Nuclear Fuels’ HR director Roger Leek is to leave the company as part of a “clean sweep” of top-level management. The move follows two damning safety reports on the …