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• Unemployment has dipped once more in France, and is now just below 11 per cent of the working population, latest official figures show. In November the number of unemployed …
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Casual staff are not entitled to a written statement of terms and conditions of employment after a House of Lords ruling. In Carmichael v National Power, the Lords overturned a …
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• More than half of HR departments audit their performance against internal or external criteria, research by the Industrial Society has found. The most frequent measures used are management information …
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• The construction industry needs 367,000 new recruits over the next five years, a report by the Construction Industry Training Board has found. Carpenters and joiners (51,200 recruits needed), managers …
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Formal links between NVQs and vendor qualifications could ease skills shortages in the computing sector, as a scheme launched this month aims to prove. By Elaine Essery Results of a …
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BP Amoco has signed a massive deal to contract out its HR services. John Robinson looks at how the move could pave the way for others. BP Amoco’s decision to …
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Employers will no longer be able to rule out job candidates with a history of mental health problems, following a case under the DDA. Construction giant John Laing admitted it …
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This month’s news roundup. Byers voices concern at training past The UK’s history of supporting training is not something to be proud of, Secretary of State for Trade & Industry …
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Our economy is on a cusp more unsettling than anything since the Industrial Revolution. Will Hutton, former editor-in-chief of The Observer, brought home the uncertainties to delegates at last month’s …
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The ‘disease of the 1990s’, stress, is the focus of Occupational Health’s first resource guide – a regular feature which aims to provide useful information sources, by topic Stress is …
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Elaine Essery looks at renewed efforts by business and education to reach a consensus on closing the skills gap and awards low marks for effort Industry and learning need to …
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"Broaden your vision" is the message the profession has given the HSE following the publication of its discussion document on developing an occupational health strategy for the UK. The HSE …
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Since the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, fatal injury rates for employees have fallen to to a quarter of what they were at the …
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OHprofessionals are reporting an increase in bullying and a distinct lack of action to tackle the problem, according to new research
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Courts give trust go-ahead to name NHS Supplies Authority as co-defendant in latex gloves court case