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Taylor v Commissioners of Inland Revenue IDS Brief 649, EAT • Taylor was a valuation executive and whilst on maternity leave was graded 4 in an appraisal. This meant she …
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• Paul Kearns’ column (7 December), although provocative in tone, lacks substance. His claim that the IPD has only recently recognised the importance of relating the professional body of knowledge …
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David Blunkett has launched a training scheme aimed at countering employers’ fears that newly-skilled staff will be poached. The Secretary of State for Education and Employment last week announced that …
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• The rise in UK interest rates by a quarter of a point to 5.75 per cent last week, which the City had been expecting, immediately caused mortgage lenders to …
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Human resources departments have failed to enhance their strategic role in organisations in the past decade. The finding, in research by one of the UK’s leading management schools, is a …
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The Government is to fast-track visa applications for foreign e-commerce specialists in an effort to help firms beat a chronic skills shortage in the sector. New proposals on work permits, …
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Firms can access a one-stop shop to check whether job candidates are lying about qualifications on their CVs under a new scheme launched today. The Higher Education Statistics Agency has …
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Civil Service HR policies are to be radically revamped after the Government published a far-reaching modernisation programme. The controversial performance-related pay scheme will be extended but the Government has calmed …
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Government plans to introduce 360-degree feedback for all senior civil servants in an effort to improve leadership could backfire, experts have warned. The proposal is contained in a wholesale reform …
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Work-related stress is one of the biggest issues facing employers in the new millennium. But you wouldn’t quite have picked up on that from the Daily Mail’s coverage of the …
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As the Millennium Dome celebrates a new world of work, Dominique Hammond argues it is HR people who will be key to making it reality It is a sinister world …
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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 …