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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 …
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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 …