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Agency shares give contractors ‘virtuous circle’ A recruitment agency is offering shares in the company to its IT contractors in a bid to keep them working for their customers. Spring.com, …
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Another week, another batch of headline-grabbing compensation awards as the litigious society takes hold. Facing a tribunal case can cost an arm and a leg these days, it seems. On …
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Virgin Atlantic and agency Barkers scooped the top prize at the annual Recruitment Advertising Awards last week organised by Personnel Today’s publisher RBI. The agency also picked up trophies for …
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A start-up company just over two years ago, Vizual Business Tools is now worth £12m and boasts an impressive list of blue-chip clients. But that is just the start, as …
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• More than half of trade union recognition deals last year were struck as a result of a union approach to an employer. But one in five came about because …
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• Vancouver, Zurich, Vienna and Bern are the cities with the best standard of living in the world, a survey by consultants William M Mercer has concluded. Sydney, Geneva, Copenhagen, …
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Serious skills shortages are threatening to derail e-commerce projects. Follow our 14-point guide to win yourself kudos and perhaps even turn yourself into a paper millionaireIf you dream of making …
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If anything is to make employers sit up and take their duty of care seriously, it is a rising compensation level. At £203,000 richer, Randy Ingram starts the millennium with …
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Health trusts which offered employees free flu jabs say they will repeat the exercise next year after avoiding high levels of staff sickness. HR managers say it is impossible to …
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BT and the Communication Workers Union have reached an agreement over working practices in call centres, which the two hope will set a benchmark for the rest of the industry. …
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• Employers expect a modest growth in jobs in the first quarter of 2000, a survey by staffing company Manpower shows. Nineteen per cent of firms surveyed forecast jobs would …
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• Stephen Byers, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, will be the keynote speaker at a major London conference organised by Personnel Today’s sister magazine Training and the Industrial …
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Like most of us I soaked up much of the analysis carried in journals about the achievements at the end of the last millennium. Due weight was given to technology …
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From share trading to shopping, e-commerce is sure to have a massive impact on life in the 21st century, allowing businesses to trade with customers around the world. By Sue …
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With the fear of getting left behind by technology hanging over businesses, many feel they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. But why is now the time …