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Training news in brief • NHS organisations are unaware of IT training packages available for use throughout the health service, IT training software provider SanScrip claims. The company says in …
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• Although average labour turnover remains stable at about 20 per cent there has been a dramatic rise in some areas of the economy. The number of people leaving their …
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• Organisations are benefiting from offering staff family-friendly policies, according to a survey. Employment analysis consultancy Industrial Relations Services found employers believed practices designed to support working parents were mutually …
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Personnel Today links up with the EFSP to push for greater employer involvement in the introduction of new legislation – an area in which the Government has a bad track …
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The new parental leave legislation is a major concern to businesses which fear the disruption it could cause. Law firm Wragge & Co outlines the key issues What is parental …
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Now the hype of the millennium is largely over we should perhaps use the advent of the Year 2000 to reflect on our profession and its role in the future …
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HR has an important role to play if culture changes in the workplace is to take hold, new research has discovered Human resources policies and procedures have a significant part …
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• Advertised demand for senior executives was running 20 per cent higher in the last quarter of 1999 compared with a year earlier, a survey by TMP.MSL reports. The recruitment …
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This week’s guru column • The Government is leaving no stone unturned to try to win the public’s affections. Now it apparently wants soap-opera writers to insert subliminal, positive messages …
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This week’s international news in brief US avoids blame for home office accidents • The employers of millions of "telecommuters" in the US will not be held liable for any …
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By Philip Whiteley Chief executives will have to become "chief human resources managers", the World Economic Forum in Davos heard last week. Speakers said the shortage of key professionals and …
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In carrying out a redundancy, every employer will be keen to act as sensitively as possible, and, above all, to avoid an unfair dismissal. With a reduction of the qualifying …
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Court of Appeal rules that sellers in business transfers are liable for employees who object to the move’s terms When a business is transferred, the effects of Tupe are generally …
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Case roundup Kerry Foods v Creber & others IDS Brief 653, EAT • The receiver of a sausage factory dismissed all staff within days of its appointment and ceased production. …
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Letters of the week • Like most people, I enjoy looking at and having a quiet chuckle over some of the ads on TV and in the press, so I …