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• Carol Cockcroft has been appointed personnel director at the British Council, starting on 1 March. She moves from Shell, where she spent 13 years, most recently as head of …

The Equal Opportunities Commission has hit out at "old fashioned" chauvinism following cases of women being forced to wear skirts or make-up at work. "It is no longer acceptable for …

A Conservative government would keep the minimum wage, the new shadow chancellor Michael Portillo confirmed last week. The declaration confirms a policy switch expected since former shadow trade & industry …

Employers must not panic into believing they have a duty to provide a reference following a recent landmark case. Last month Belinda Coote was awarded £200,000 damages against Granada Hospitality …

Personnel Today launches a campaign today to gain more say for employers on the introduction of employment law. In association with the Employers’ Forum on Statute and Practice, we are …

Castaway 2000, the BBC’s televised teambuilding experiment, will end in disaster because the participants do not share a common goal, a leading management expert has warned. Phil Davies, lecturer in …

The term human resources is demeaning to working people and sends the wrong signal to staff, according to one of the UK’s most experienced personnel directors. In a scathing attack, …

Back problems cited by staff are commonly regarded by line managers as an excuse for low morale or boredom. And when employees take days off for headaches or migraines they …

The IPD is failing its members in local government by placing too much emphasis on the private sector, according to local council chief personnel officers. Terry Gorman, assistant chief executive …

Personnel Today’s decision this week to launch a campaign with the EFSB for better regulation is born out of the growing frustration of the HR profession. Poor consultation, botched implementation …

A letter begging for calm was sent to all branches of a union last week after balloting on controversial changes to working patterns was in danger of descending into violence. …

Private-sector firms will increasingly have to meet strict race targets in order to win contracts from public bodies as a result of new anti-discrimination laws. The conditions will be used …

BT is trying to recruit people with rare IT skills by tracking them down to specialist "chat rooms" on the Internet. The company is gearing up for a second trial …

Employers are ditching traditional recruitment adverts in favour of web site signalling. The trend is being led by companies looking for hi-tech staff but is also being used to recruit …

Hi-tech start-up Invisix will host a 24-hour worldwide recruitment fair over the Internet next week. Ten managers from Invisix, a joint venture between Motorola and Cisco Systems, will go on-line …