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Sir Michael Burton, a high court judge with a track record in high-profile industrial disputes, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee. As the CAC …
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Fashion retailer Littlewoods is encouraging staff to join shop workers’ union Usdaw, as part of a far-reaching partnership deal it hopes will help the company modernise. Two thousand staff have …
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Employers will lose key staff if they fail to realise the significance of good work-life balance, according to research by Roffey Park Management Institute. The study found that middle and …
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Serious employee debt could be avoided if HR managers knew how to spot the warning signs. Insolvency arm of accountancy firm Levy Gee believes that overspending, job insecurity and interest …
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The Metropolitan Police force is revolutionising its HR practices in a drive to retain staff and improve its crime detection rate. The strategy, being rolled out over five years and …
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• Newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror, formerly Mirror Group Newspapers, has appointed Steve Addley as HR director, based in Canary Wharf. Addley was previously personnel director for Thomson Regional Newspapers. • …
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Carol Cockcroft joins the British Council on 1 March as personnel director and member of the senior management strategy team. She moves from Shell where she spent 13 years. What’s …
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The Government has given employers just six weeks to respond to the biggest change in employment relations in more than a decade. The Department of Trade & Industry last week …
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Only three employers in the UK have been brought to book for flouting Working Time law – 16 months after it came into force. Under the Working Time directive – …
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Training news in brief • NHS organisations are unaware of IT training packages available for use throughout the health service, IT training software provider SanScrip claims. The company says in …
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• Although average labour turnover remains stable at about 20 per cent there has been a dramatic rise in some areas of the economy. The number of people leaving their …
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• Organisations are benefiting from offering staff family-friendly policies, according to a survey. Employment analysis consultancy Industrial Relations Services found employers believed practices designed to support working parents were mutually …
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Personnel Today links up with the EFSP to push for greater employer involvement in the introduction of new legislation – an area in which the Government has a bad track …
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The new parental leave legislation is a major concern to businesses which fear the disruption it could cause. Law firm Wragge & Co outlines the key issues What is parental …
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Now the hype of the millennium is largely over we should perhaps use the advent of the Year 2000 to reflect on our profession and its role in the future …