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Personnel’s preparation for the forthcoming Human Rights Act should involve policy vigilance, not panic The expression, "I know my rights" is likely to make any personnel manager’s heart sink. Many …
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This week’s case round up MHC Consulting Services v Tansell, IRLB 630, EAT • Tansell was a computer consultant and through his company intelligents provided computer services to third parties. …
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Letters of the week • Your article on the Walker case (15 February) covers an interesting topic but I do not agree that blanket immunity can be given to people …
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This week’s stock market review The markets proved their unpredictable nature last week when CGU, the UK’s biggest composite insurer and Norwich Union, one of the country’s leading life assurance …
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This week’s news in brief The Government has fudged making a decision on whether to allow members of final-salary pension schemes to hold a stakeholder pension as well. In a …
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Jeremy Rance has joined pensions and investment company NPI as HR director, based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Previously head of HR operations at Pearl Assurance, he will be responsible for …
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Technology is revolutionising training and career development, even turning some of the more progressive organisations into virtual corporate universities. But which are likely to be the key technologies in the …
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Manchester United may have scored a legal own goal by dropping David Beckham after he missed training to deal with a domestic emergency. Since the Parental Leave law came into …
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• Mark Saxton joined bus operator Arriva as a board member and the company’s first HR director on 21 February. He moves from Cadbury Schweppes where he spent 12 years, …
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Business round up • Prudential has admitted that its Internet banking arm Egg will run up bigger losses than predicted after the insurer announced plans to float the operation on …
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Nurses and medical support staff came out top in the annual round of public-sector pay deals last year, according to figures from Incomes Data Services. About 444,000 nurses and 53,000 …
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The London School of Economics is calling for education to target the skills needs of the economy after finding a large proportion of British employees are overeducated for their roles. …
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E-business Great Plains is buying software company PWA Group in a bid to become the dominant HR software supplier. The deal, to be confirmed by early March, will also boost …
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The incoming Data Protection Act is a nightmare waiting to happen for HR. Not only are the requirements of the Act incredibly complicated, but the Data Protection Registrar hasn’t got …
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Service requirements before confirmation of a new job or for promotion could be discriminatory, even though the landmark ruling of Seymour-Smith went against the employees, lawyers have warned. Last month …