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Disabled workers employer Remploy backed down this week from plans to close up to nine of its factories. It was considering merging nine factories into three, in an attempt to …
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HR professionals are unconcerned by the rise in the minimum wage announced by the Government last week. The 10 pence rise in the hourly rate from £3.60 to £3.70 will …
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A pay and conditions package that will change the working culture of the Royal Mail and has taken almost 10 years to be negotiated has just scraped through a ballot …
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Fear and ignorance are preventing companies from employing disabled people, even when they have useful skills, a major disability charity has claimed. The comments were made by charity Leonard Cheshire …
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HR jobs are under threat following the takeover of NatWest by the Royal Bank of Scotland, finance union Unifi has warned. The takeover bid, due to be ratified at an …
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Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Mirror, Sunday Mirror and a host of regional newspapers, has appointed Steve Addley as director of HR. Addley was HR director of Trinity International Holdings, …
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• The number of students in higher education has risen steadily over the past 20 years. Expansion has been most rapid in the past decade, with an increase of 253,000 …
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• Industrial unrest in the 1920s and 1970s mean the highest number of working days were lost in these two decades. Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic fall …
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Unions can still achieve old-fashioned victories over employers. Stephen Overell reports on the impact on the partnership approach to industrial relations A shorter working week for train drivers won by …
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Two weeks ago Tony Blair hit the road, travelling to the West Country as part of a series of regional tours to seduce the electorate before next year. While acknowledging …
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Want to convince the board you’ve got your finger on the pulse? Here is a guide to gen up on the people, the brands, the ideas, the products and technologies …
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• Thousands of staff at Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket chain, are to share in an £83m pay-out this month when its savings scheme matures. More than 55,000 employees – nearly …
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National officer, Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union Are HR managers losing the plot? I hear the old tunes being played. Legal complaints are equated with excess bureaucracy. Managers are falling …
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• The recent above-inflation pay increases for NHS nurses mean salaries of £16,445 for newly qualified nurses. While most nursing staff received a 3.4 per cent pay rise, the biggest …
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Employers need to be sure an employee is guilty of gross misconduct to avoid paying compensation Very often an employer will need to dispense with the services of an employee …