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This week’s stock market review Peninsular & Orient (P&O), the British maritime group has announced proposals to de-merge its cruises business and create a separate group to enable it to …
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The Government is considering a high-profile campaign to recruit social workers. The much-needed recruitment drive would be similar to the recent "No one forgets a good teacher" campaign. A spokesman …
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The Metropolitan Police is to introduce training in stop and search procedures after the new commissioner revealed he had twice been angered by the attitude of officers who stopped him. …
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Caroline Horn assesses how technology is changing employment patterns and offers a guide to the jobs of the future The development of new technologies has had a dramatic effect on …
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Technology helps centralisation • Life assurance group Britannic is to cut 350 jobs as part of a plan to centralise its administration and cut costs. The jobs will be cut …
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A firm featured in the Government’s New Deal advertising campaign has gone into receivership. The firm’s dozen odd New Deal apprentices are now looking for new jobs. Merseyside contractor Porter …
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• Carol Cockcroft has been appointed personnel director at the British Council, starting on 1 March. She moves from Shell, where she spent 13 years, most recently as head of …
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The Equal Opportunities Commission has hit out at "old fashioned" chauvinism following cases of women being forced to wear skirts or make-up at work. "It is no longer acceptable for …
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A Conservative government would keep the minimum wage, the new shadow chancellor Michael Portillo confirmed last week. The declaration confirms a policy switch expected since former shadow trade & industry …
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Employers must not panic into believing they have a duty to provide a reference following a recent landmark case. Last month Belinda Coote was awarded £200,000 damages against Granada Hospitality …
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Personnel Today launches a campaign today to gain more say for employers on the introduction of employment law. In association with the Employers’ Forum on Statute and Practice, we are …
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Castaway 2000, the BBC’s televised teambuilding experiment, will end in disaster because the participants do not share a common goal, a leading management expert has warned. Phil Davies, lecturer in …
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The term human resources is demeaning to working people and sends the wrong signal to staff, according to one of the UK’s most experienced personnel directors. In a scathing attack, …
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Back problems cited by staff are commonly regarded by line managers as an excuse for low morale or boredom. And when employees take days off for headaches or migraines they …
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The IPD is failing its members in local government by placing too much emphasis on the private sector, according to local council chief personnel officers. Terry Gorman, assistant chief executive …