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Abysmal completion rates for Modern Apprenticeships have sparked calls for a rethink in the implementation of work-based training. By Patrick McCurry The most recent statistics from the DfEE revealed that …

This month Simon Bellotti Sales recruitment and training manager Britannic Assurance Age 32 How long have you been in this job? I have just completed two years’ service and have …

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 …

Increasing responsibility for T&D rests with line managers, but how much time do they put into it and how effective is their involvement? Sue Clark asks a cross-section of organisations …

When you send your top team on a gruelling outdoor development course, you had better do more than keep your fingers crossed that they all come back in one piece. …

Electronic learning management systems force HR managers to become involved in an alien specialism – IT. David Moore offers advice on how to form an effective partnership with your IT …

The people at KAE Marketing Intelligence thought they were pretty good at communicating. But as partner and marketing director Simon Dannatt reports, they found there was ample room for improvement …

This month’s news 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 a conference …

The employment status of agency and other temporary staff is due to change dramatically in the next year or so. Richard Lister surveys the legal landscape

Employers including Eurostar and the Professional Golfers’ Association have recently found themselves on the wrong end of sex discrimination proceedings for refusing to let women staff wear trousers. But is this really an issue worth wasting personnel time and company money on in the 21st century?

The European Court of Justice has given guidance on the issue of bonus pay for staff on maternity leave. Law firm Eversheds reports on this and a range of other employment law cases that have recently come to judgement

Conscientious employers can avoid claims of unfair dismissal as a result of long-term sickness yet still find themselves falling foul of the Disability Discrimination Act, as Michael Nield explains

Spring is on its way and, for some employees, love is in the air. For others, however, all that’s in the offing is a desire to pursue a claim of sex harassment. Heather Falconer asks whether love contracts can cushion employers from the rocky road of romance

As the workload for tribunals continues to grow and new, higher compensation awards tempt even more employees to bring cases, the courts are starting to encourage employers to look at mediation. David Beswick explains how the process works

Public bodies will have to undertake a root-and-branch review of employment policies after the biggest change to race laws in a quarter of a century. Home Secretary Jack Straw said …