Employers with businesses in EU countries face some difficult challenges if they restructure local operations. Mark Taylor outlines the scale of the problem and details some particular issues.
Global HR
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France Telecom plans to allow older staff to work part-time in a bid to stop a string of suicides at...
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We’re all watching the Royal Mail strike with a genuine mix of emotions. Since the late 1980s, strike action has...
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Phone company France Telecom has put a stop to its controversial reorganisation involving internal transfers, which has been blamed for...
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France Telecom has scrapped the restructuring blamed for a spate of employee suicides - but too late for the 25 workers who have already taken their own lives. The Chartered Management Institute's chief executive Ruth Spellman considers the dangers of ignoring the emotional wellbeing of staff.
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Management practices at a French phone giant have helped drive a number of workers to commit suicide, a union member...
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HR across Europe is slowly becoming more like its UK counterpart, and shares many of the same people challenges. But...
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France Telecom will hire 100 new HR advisers and work with unions to tackle workplace stress, following 24 staff suicides...
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Now in its ninth year, the Top 40 Power Players aims to recognise HR’s most prominent and influential professionals; those...
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Judges on the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a Miami federal district court’s dismissal of four cases...
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French hotel giant Accor said it will stop hiring staff based on their looks partly by using an anonymous job...
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A quarterly global survey of hiring and firing trends covering more than 7000 organisations in 34 countries has found job...
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In the second of our international series, Craig Donaldson finds that while HR in the Asia Pacific region is well...
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Employee confidence in the UK has risen 4.6 percent since March, according to a quarterly study by the Kenexa, a...
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In a just-released follow-up to its 2008 Flash Survey: Cost Savings Initiatives survey, ORC Worldwide, a global human resources (HR) consulting...