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BT is the first company to sign up to use the University for Industry’s on-line training courses. Courses in business management, customer care, retail and distribution and IT will be …
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Employers are being told not to panic after unions and employment lawyers warned thousands of organisations could be unaware they are breaching Working Time regulations (Personnel Today, 14 March). Lawyers …
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Workers of the world are not so much uniting as travelling. Some 120 million employees are classed as migrants in a new report by the International Labour Office, compared with …
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Employers are pressing for maximum progress on boosting labour market flexibility at this week’s EU economic summit in Lisbon. They see a window of opportunity with the Portuguese presidency emphasising …
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A register of staff sacked for gross misconduct used by hundreds of organisations is expected to be accessed more widely after being cleared under the Data Protection Act. The Employers’ …
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A council is planning a recruitment and retention seminar to tackle the shortage of social workers. Angela Probert, head of personnel at Nottingham City Council, hopes a discussion of inn- …
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• Law firm Speechly Bircham has appointed Heather McNeice as a solicitor in its employment practice. She joins from Linklaters where she started as a trainee in 1990. She has …
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• A study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that more than a quarter of staff believe their promotion prospects are worse than five years ago. The study, Job …
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• A report by the Industrial Society on how pay negotiations are carried out has found that most respondents negotiate managers’ pay on an individual basis. For professional/technical staff the …
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• The results of the 1999 pay and working time survey reflect the answers of senior managers in 212 organisations reporting on a workforce of more than 427,000. According to …
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Philip Whiteley looks at the prospects for success of Chancellor Gordon Brown’s attempt to match the million people without a job to a million job vacancies It is a personnel …
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Surrey County Council, Procter & Gamble, PricewaterhouseCoopers The public sector has a good record for working flexible hours with "flexitime" operating in organisations in both central and local government. In …
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The Web can bring flexibility to the office, opening up new possibilities. But beware of its dangerous side The power of the Internet can no longer be ignored in the …
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Globalisation, the changing nature of work and the 24-hour economy means that new ways of working will become an imperative of successful business life. And while flexible working is not …
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Flexibility is not just a buzzword of the new millennium – the UK’s most talented, experienced employees want it and companies want the UK’s most talented, experienced workforce. But your …