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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 …
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This week’s guru column • There always seems to someone in the office who has a bit of personal problem, be it bad manners, bad breath or plain old BO. …
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This week’s training news in brief • Skills shortages are posing a serious threat to the expansion of the Internet, according to the Data Networking Association (DNA). Officially launched by …
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There is not much which angers me more when trying to do my job than bureaucracy and the wasted effort that so often accompanies it. In the past few years …
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Employers should take an overview of sex bias claims, not treat comments in isolation, appeal tribunal rules When does sexual banter amount to sex discrimination? This issue is revisited by …
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As well as being legally proficient, HR professionals need to be able confidently to conduct negotiations over terminations in a way which minimises the exposure of the employer to legal …
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This week’s case round up Wilson v Ethicon, IDS Brief 655, EAT • Wilson was suspended for gross misconduct after failing to carry out a required testing procedure on the …
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• As an engineering company with 150 employees, we have always tried to start two engineering apprentices every year. In the bad old days, we recruited one "craft" and one …
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This week’s stock market review British Telecom once again dominated the minds of City analysts last week. First came the news that the company’s US competitors Alta Vista and NT …
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The hotel and catering sector is to embark on a major joint initiative with government to provide industry-ready New Deal recruits to tackle the huge skills shortages in the industry. …
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Companies in the UK and across the EU risk missing the e-commerce boat because of the serious shortage of people with IT skills, Microsoft told a skills conference in Brussels …
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Unions representing professional staff at Ford Motor Company have settled their dispute over pensions and pay. Management put forward a revised pay offer for negotiation following a one-hour strike on …
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The IPD has recruited a former CBI adviser to act as a specialist on pay and employment conditions. Nick Page, formerly lead adviser on pensions at the CBI, will move …
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Construction firm Taylor Woodrow is putting HR at the heart of plans to transform its business and become the sector’s employer of choice. Over the next four months the company …
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Government departments will have to double the number of disabled people in senior Civil Service roles, under targets announced last week by Cabinet minister Mo Mowlam. By 2005, departments will …