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• The European Commission has announced that it is to spend 94.8m euros (£59.3m) on another 753 employment training projects across the EU and in Eastern Europe under the Leonardo …
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Liverpool City Council could have to pay up to £1m to 120 of its employees after a tribunal ruled that it had unfairly terminated their contracts. The employment tribunal decided …
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Major deficiencies in recruitment and training at the Metropolitan Police have emerged as competition for staff intensifies with the prison and armed forces. The force denied that a major billboard …
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PricewaterhouseCoopers has signed deals with two US companies to provide the bulk of their HR service in partnership with software provider PeopleSoft. The deals mark the consultancy’s move into the …
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• A UK training college for the 13,000 staff at waste management company Onyx and rail firm Connex has been set up by French parent company CGEA. An annual £1.6m …
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The 1980s and early 1990s were about downsizing when the finance director ruled; but this is the age of talent. The employer’s greatest asset has appreciated – or so we …
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What were they? You no longer have to log the hours of staff who have opted out of the 48-hour maximum working week; and there will be a new category …
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Balancing work and home life is a vital means of improving productivity, the chief executive designate of the Industrial Society Will Hutton has announced. The society is warning employers that …
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An industrial tribunal has ruled that a mother forced to work long hours was not the victim of sex discrimination. Aisling Sykes earned a six-figure salary as vice-president of City …
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Employers will dictate the direction of the learning and skills councils, which will replace Tecs. The Government made the announcement as it acknowledged a mismatch between skills and business needs. …
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• Alex Wilson has joined ICI as senior vice-president of HR. He moves from Guinness where he was HR director for three-and-a-half years. Prior to joining Guinness he spent 12 …
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Jane Usherwood has been appointed to the newly created post of director of personnel at Birmingham University. She was previously deputy director of staffing, a post she held for six …
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High-tech firms could face legal action for breach of confidentiality agreements if they poach staff from competitors. US-based analyst Gartner Group has warned IT companies against recruiting staff on the …
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The Government has announced a belated series of measures to tackle employers’ complaints about the New Deal. The shake-up of the scheme, announced by employment minister Tessa Jowell last week, …
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Employers have been told to brace themselves for a rash of compensation claims for stress, following two cases of six-figure pay-outs in two days. Worcestershire County Council paid out a …