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Management at Ford Motor Company is trying to frighten professional staff into dropping their threat of industrial action, the MSF union is claiming. The union’s general secretary Roger Lyons told …

Restaurant chain Pizza Express has launched an employee forum as part of a programme to improve staff consultation. The move pre-empts national-level works councils regulations, which are likely to be …

Too little work and poor motivation among staff are at the root of absenteeism and retention problems in call centres, new research claims. Call centre staff are twice as likely …

British business is lagging behind the United States when it comes to offering employees flexible benefits packages. A survey found large and medium-sized companies in the UK are missing out …

A flu pandemic would cripple the NHS because the Government has no contingency staffing plans, a leading doctor has warned. "I think there will be a crisis which could become …

Changes in racial equality regulations could transform public sector HR, but their true impact hangs on how the Government enforces them, writes John Robinson New legal duties on public bodies …

The intranet is shedding its boring bulletin board image and emerging as the way forward in internal communications. Plus we preview this year’s Softworld HR payroll event. Intranets are coming …

The hunt is on for the UK’s best training team. Entries are being invited for the TD2000 Award which is organised by Personnel Today’s sister publication Training, with the backing …

This week’s training news in brief • Corporate universities can be developed to provide services for other employers as part of the growth in outsourcing, a new study has proposed. …

• Salaries for permanent IT staff soared in 1999, while rates for many IT contractors fell during the period. A Windows NT specialist can now earn more than £30,000 in …

A short-term HR post can leave you with many challenges to face. But unlike potential full-timers, you can work on simply delivering the goods In my experience of undertaking a …

Abysmal completion rates for Modern Apprenticeships have sparked calls for a rethink in the implementation of work-based trainingThe most recent statistics from the DfEE revealed that just 32 per cent …

Now here’s a real business challenge: create a team which will produce 28 hours of television output every week for less than 10 per cent of the typical cost of …

Industry awards help spread best practice, provide good publicity for the winning organisations, a boost to team morale and a useful addition to the CV.Not surprising then that there were …

This month’s news roundup Byers to speak at conference • The Rt Hon Stephen Byers MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, is to deliver a keynote speech at …