A no-nonsense absence policy and a new wellbeing initiative have led to dramatic victories in East Sussex Council's battle against long-term sick leave. Sally O'Reilly reports.
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HR should ensure health risks are flagged up before employees take a trip abroad, argues Sally O'Reilly.
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Q A senior HR manager has just been appointed from another company to be my boss, and he’s 20 years...
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Bev Messinger has been promoted to director of customer and workforce service – a newly created directorate – at Coventry...
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Human resources is not known as a fertile ground for joke-making (despite the plentiful material), but Guru was tickled by...
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The typical company fraudster is a trusted male executive – sometimes even the chief executive – who gets away with...
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Unconventional backgrounds can provide invaluable people management skills. Virginia Matthews speaks to three professionals about their lives before HR.
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There was some debate at Personnel Today’s HR Directors Club ‘thought leadership’ dinner at London Zoo last week about the future status...
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The opinion piece you featured by Nicholas Higgins would have been better placed in your Rant section (Personnel Today, 22...
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Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development recruitment, retention and turnover survey finds employers struggle to keep staff
by Mike Berryby Mike BerryThere has been a significant rise in the number of organisations struggling to retain their staff over the past year,...
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The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has slammed two government agencies for “astonishingly high” sick leave rates. A report by...
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Human resources practitioners experience more workplace conflict than any other profession, research has revealed.
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One in three HR departments makes no attempt to measure how effective its interventions are, according to a study by...
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The stress from being promoted is second only to dealing with divorce, a survey has shown. Research from the Chartered ...